Edible speculations: designing everyday oracles for food futures

Designing Products for Everyday Rituals

The user’s experience of his or her interaction with a product is becoming an increasingly important aspect of product design. In the ‘experience economy’, experiential factors have become major discriminants affecting the success of new products. Industry is well aware of this, and likewise design schools are adjusting their curricula to better train their students to take into account factors...

Designing for Software Testability Using Automated Oracles

Software testing often requires massive numbers of test cases that must be manually inspected for correctness. This paper demonstrates the use of software \test oracles" to automate the process of checking the correctness of program output. The Prosper system, implemented by the authors, can be used to de ne test oracles and monitor the runtime behavior of software. An e ective method to design...

Designing Everyday Computational Things

Much development of information technology has been about reducing the importance of distances and user location. Still, many important activities and events are of local nature, for instance serendipitous face-to-face communication. In order to support such communication, as well as other examples of local interaction, we have developed three prototypes all based on wireless short-range commun...

Everyday Food Assessments

Global food and farming futures

Food is an essential part of all our lives. Following productivity increases in the Green Revolution, food prices in major world markets have been at a historical low in recent decades. Analysis from the Government Office for Science shows that by 2050, this situation is set to change significantly. The global population will have increased by nearly a third to nine billion, and diets will have...