FridgeSort - Improving Fridge Sorting behaviour to reduce Food Waste through a Mobile Serious Game

Food waste in private households in industrialized countries is a growing concern. Inadequate food storage practices can lead to storing items in a way that leads to forgetting them until they become spoiled, increasing food waste. In this paper, we present FridgeSort, a serious mobile game that aims at teaching users how to sort their refrigerators with the underlying goal of reducing household food waste. The game was evaluated with 14 participants, and the results show that the participants were able to quickly learn the sorting method and recall it after an extended period of time. Overall, the results suggest that FridgeSort succeeded in teaching users how to sort a fridge that can be applied to the real world and lead to a reduction in food waste.

• Publication year

  2023

• Venue

  International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia

• Publication date

  2023-12-03

• Fields of study

  Computer Science, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1145/3626705.3627801
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar

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