FunEat: An Interactive Tableware for Improving Eating Habits in Children

Good eating habits are important for growing children. However, many children have anorexia and picky eating behaviors, causing a series of problems such as malnutrition and decreased resistance to illness. Our research focuses on guiding children to develop healthy eating habits through interactive animation and gamified design. We designed an intelligent dinner plate system, composed of a gravity-sensing dinner plate and a micro projection device, which can provide guidance through interactive animation when children eat. We conducted tests of the system with children aged 5-7 with picky eating behaviors. The results showed that the system had a positive effect on improving their eating habits.