TY - GEN
T1 - A Study of Solar Cooking
T2 - 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2022
AU - Kuznetsov, Stacey
AU - Rodriguez Vega, Alejandra
AU - Long, Elenore
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 ACM.
PY - 2022/4/29
Y1 - 2022/4/29
N2 - As parts of our planet continue to experience extreme heat waves, it is more urgent than ever for human-food interaction research to examine climate-resilient and sustainable food practices. Our work, conducted in the hottest city in the USA, focuses on solar cooking as a set of creative DIY activities that use extreme heat and mitigate human impact on the environment. We report on a summer-long study whereby 7 enthusiasts built solar ovens from scratch and experimented with solar recipes ranging from slow-cooked pork and chicken to bread, kale chips, brownies, jerky, and fruit rollups. Our findings depict solar cooking as a form of iterative DIY, which, through its challenges and creative workarounds, serves as a point of engagement with both food and extreme heat. We reflect on solar cooking as a climate-resilient food practice and conclude with design considerations for HCI to support solar cooking as a habitual community practice.
AB - As parts of our planet continue to experience extreme heat waves, it is more urgent than ever for human-food interaction research to examine climate-resilient and sustainable food practices. Our work, conducted in the hottest city in the USA, focuses on solar cooking as a set of creative DIY activities that use extreme heat and mitigate human impact on the environment. We report on a summer-long study whereby 7 enthusiasts built solar ovens from scratch and experimented with solar recipes ranging from slow-cooked pork and chicken to bread, kale chips, brownies, jerky, and fruit rollups. Our findings depict solar cooking as a form of iterative DIY, which, through its challenges and creative workarounds, serves as a point of engagement with both food and extreme heat. We reflect on solar cooking as a climate-resilient food practice and conclude with design considerations for HCI to support solar cooking as a habitual community practice.
KW - DIY
KW - Solar cooking
KW - food science
KW - sustainable HCI
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U2 - 10.1145/3491102.3517557
DO - 10.1145/3491102.3517557
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85130521585
T3 - Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings
BT - CHI 2022 - Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
Y2 - 30 April 2022 through 5 May 2022
ER -