Exploring the Potential of Microphenomenology for Understanding and Designing for Lived Experience of Mindful Eating

The increasing interest in HCI around the body and embodied experiences has led to the development of novel technologies and methodologies to actively align with and leverage these aspects. The design of health technologies often relies on behavioral metrics, such as in the case of designing eating/food-related technologies. This reflection paper explores the potential of micro-phenomenology, which is a rigorous first-person methodology to examine lived experience, to understand, and inform the design of mindful eating technologies that engage everyday embodied experiences in the context of HCI.