Food Reality Experience

Abstract

How can virtual reality be a medium to enhance inclusion and interaction among tablemates? How is it possible to humanize technological divide, leveraging accessibility and literacy of people of different ages, towards the correct use of technological devices? This paper discuss how the use of ICT at Social Tables has created a new language and has fostered connections and interactions among participants; how it has spread the knowledge of food, places, and traditions from different countries; how it has created and activated a fluid experience of all the senses with which we are endowed. This has been made possible, through the experiments conducted during the Food Reality Experience: performative dinners where ingredients and food are mixed with 3D videos.