Why do people watch others eat food? An empirical study on the motivations and practices of mukbang viewers

Publication Type

Conference Proceeding Article

Publication Date

4-2020

Abstract

We present a mixed-methods study of viewers on their practices and motivations around watching mukbang — video streams of people eating large quantities of food. Viewers' experiences provide insight on future technologies for multisensorial video streams and technology-supported commensality (eating with others). We surveyed 104 viewers and interviewed 15 of them about their attitudes and reflections on their mukbang viewing habits, their physiological aspects of watching someone eat, and their perceived social relationship with mukbangers. Based on our findings, we propose design implications for remote commensality, and for synchronized multisensorial video streaming content.

Keywords

mukbang, video streams

Discipline

Information Security

Research Areas

Information Systems and Management

Publication

Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Honolulu, United States, April 25-30

ISBN

9781450367080

Identifier

10.1145/3313831.3376567

Publisher

Association for Computing Machinery

City or Country

New York

Copyright Owner and License

Authors

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.1145/3313831.3376567

This document is currently not available here.

Share

COinS