“Nukabot: Design of Human-Microbe-Computer Entanglement” by Seong
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- Nukabot: Design of Human-Microbe-Computer Entanglement
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We present the latest development of Nukabot, a human-computer interaction mediation system that connects the fermented food microbiome with its human carer through voice communication. A nukadoko is a traditional Japanese fermentation technique that involves rice bran mixed with salt and water (nuka) put in a wooden, enamel, or plastic container (doko). The current version of Nukabot is a porcelain nukadoko equipped with chemical sensors to track the fermentation status, voice recognition, and vocal synthesis engines that enable humans to talk and ask questions about the ferment.
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Dominique Chen, Young ah Seong, Hiraku Ogura, Yuto Mitani, Naoto Sekiya, and Kiichi Moriya. 2021. Nukabot: Design of Care for Human-Microbe Relationships. In Extended Abstracts of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (, Yokohama, Japan,) (CHI EA ?21). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 291, 7 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3411763.3451605
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