E-COmate: what’s your non-consumption?

Abstract. Most people lack awareness and hence understanding about how food-related behavior affects the environment. This commonly re-sults in unsustainable food-related decision making, such as food waste. We propose E-COmate, an augmented bin that measures the weight of food waste through a USB postal scale, a bin and a Raspberry Pi with a Wi-Fi module, and give direct feedback to its users through a tablet by visualizing metaphorical units of the weighted food waste. We intend ex-plore the use of E-COmate in redirecting behavior through transparency, visibility and social influence strategies like social comparison. In this pa-per, we present our concept, implementation, design rationale and plan of research which we expect to provide insights into the potential of eco-feedback integrated in smart home technology for food sustainability