Mindful Eating Lab

Mindful Eating Design Cards

A tool for designing mindful eating technologies

MEDEC Cards

Eating is complex, as is people’s relationship to food, which significantly impacts wellbeing and health. Mindful eating interventions have been shown to be effective in addressing problematic eating.

Mindful Eating Design Cards (MEDEC) is a design tool that build upon on the a solid theoretical foundation grounded in health research on mindful eating and it’s principles, measurement scales, and therapeutic interventions such as Mindfulness Based Eating Awareness Training (MB-EAT), and Human-Computer Interaction research on technology types. MEDEC cards evaluted with mindful eating expert practitioners.

MEDEC includes consist of three colors: blue-colored cards representing the technology types, yellow-colored cards representing the rest of the mindful eating aspects, and pink-colored cards representing mindful eating bodily sensory aspects.

For a detailed description of the MEDEC Cards, including their design and validation, please refer to our full paper published in ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI).

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To cite this research

Guluzada, L. and Sas, C., 2026. Mindful Eating Aspects as Bridging Concepts Represented through the MEDEC Cards: Towards a Design Framework for Mindful Eating Technologies. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 71 pages.

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