Eatentive
Siri Thaitrakulpanich
winniesiri@gmail.com / www.winniesiri.com
In the modern day, people are becoming more and more distracted during their meals. They often multi-task while eating, which decreases the quality of their experience with food. To counter these destructive eating habits, mindful eating, a meditation method, can be used to enhance focus during mealtimes. Mindfully eating means paying full attention to your food and how your body and mind responds to it, while also giving yourself and your food the time they deserve.
With Eatentive, a mindful eating training program, users can learn techniques and form habits that enrich their eating experience. The program consists of 7-days of themed training, and a booklet and props designed for continuing the mindful eating experience outside of the program. The first day is an introduction to mindful eating, days two to six are about how to use the five senses in mindful eating, and day seven is about pacing the eating speed. After that, 27 days of food journaling are included in the booklet. There, the user will be able to document one meal per day on their own, using the mindful eating techniques they’ve acquired during the first seven days of the program.
Work Process
Top left: a set up of Day 1, An Introduction to Mindful Eating. Top right: Activity on Day 2, Let’s Take a Look. Bottom left: Sound Plate used on Day 3. Bottom right: Mock up of boxes containing ingredients for participants to touch, along with the dish and reflection page of Day 4, Feel Your Food.
Top left: spectrum used to gauge texture of ingredients on Day 4. Top right: Cones containing ingredients for participants to identify by smell. Bottom left: stickers used to identify taste of food on each spoon on Day 6. Bottom right: food divider where participant has to spend at least two minutes eating food in each section.
Developmental sketches of Day 1 and 2.
Developmental sketches of Day 3 and 5.
A used reflection page and activity pages.