Rohit Ashok Khot
RMIT VC Postdoctoral fellow, Exertion Games Lab
School of Media and Communication
Ph: +61 3 9925 2594
Email: rohitashok.khot@rmit.edu.au
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Rohit’s PhD research work on “Understanding Material Representations of Physical Activity”, utilizes emerging technologies such as 3D printers and food printers to make physical activity more memorable, enjoyable and fulfilling. This work offers new design thinking towards building quantified-self technologies where people track their physical activity data for self-reflection. In particular, Rohit orchestrates strategies for turning physical activity data into physical representations such as plastic artifacts, sports drinks, and chocolate treats – which are personalized based on an individual’s efforts. As such, these systems enable embodiment of invisible bodily data (e.g., heart rate) in a physical and edible form that can be seen as well as touched, smelled, tasted, carried and even possessed.
This work was done with the vision that in 5-10 years time, 3D printers and food printers would become household appliances. At the moment, little is known on how and for what purposes people would make use of these exciting new technologies. By contextualizing their use in the domain of quantified-self technologies, this research opens up an exciting new design space to take this field forward. To this end, the work can be seen as a precursor for exciting opportunities with food printing to define future meals and dining experiences, where the nutrition is customized on the macro level. Rohit is confident that in near future, we will witness various follow-ups – that aim to connect the biographies of the material world with the immaterial world.
Capabilities
Human Computer Interaction (HCI)
Playful Interaction Design
Quantified self (Personal Informatics)
Food printing
Tangible and Embodied Interactions
Physical visualizations
3D printing
Human Food Interactions (HFI)
Research through Design
Sports and Spectator interfaces
Publications
- Rohit Ashok Khot, Josh Andres, Jennifer Lai, Juerg von Kaenel, and Florian Mueller 2016. Fantibles: Capturing Cricket Fan’s Story in 3D. In Proc. DIS ’16, ACM, 883-894. (Acceptance rate: 27%).
- Rohit Ashok Khot, Jeewon Lee, Deepti Aggarwal, Larissa Hjorth and Florian Mueller 2015. TastyBeats: Designing Palatable Representations of Physical Activity. In Proc. CHI’15, ACM, 2933-2942. (Acceptance rate: 23%, Citation count: 6) (Best paper honorable mention award).
- Rohit Ashok Khot, Ryan Pennings and Florian Mueller 2015. EdiPulse: Turning Physical Activity Into Chocolates, In Proc. CHI EA’15, ACM, 331-334 (Citation count: 3).
- Rohit Ashok Khot, Jeewon Lee, Larissa Hjorth and Florian Mueller 2015. TastyBeats: Celebrating Heart Rate Data with a Drinkable Spectacle. In Proc. TEI’15, ACM, 229-232. (Acceptance rate: 28%, Citation count: 4)
- Rohit Ashok Khot, Larissa Hjorth, and Florian Mueller 2014. Understanding Physical Activity through 3D Printed Material Artifacts. In Proc. CHI’14, ACM, 3835-3844. (Acceptance rate: 22%, Citation count: 33).
- Florian Mueller, Sophie Stellmach, Saul Greenberg, Andreas Dippon, Susanne Boll, Jayden Garner, Rohit Ashok Khot, Amani Naseem and David Altimira 2014. Proxemics Play: understanding proxemics for designing digital play experiences, In Proc. DIS ’14, ACM, 533- 542. (Acceptance rate: 27%, Citation count: 10).
- Rohit Ashok Khot, Larissa Hjorth and Florian Mueller 2013. SweatAtoms: Materialising Physical Activity. In Proc. IE ’13, ACM, Article 4. (Citation count: 4).
- Rohit Ashok Khot, Kannan Srinathan and Ponnurangam Kumaraguru 2012. WYSWYE: shoulder surfing defense for recognition based graphical passwords, In Proc. OZCHI ’12, ACM, 2605-2614. (Citation count: 15).
- Rohit Ashok Khot, Kannan Srinathan and Ponnurangam Kumaraguru 2011. MARASIM: a novel jigsaw based authentication scheme using tagging, In Proc. CHI ’11, ACM, 2605-2614. (Acceptance rate: 26%, Citation count: 10).
Selected Press:
- Sydney Morning Herald, 2016, Designers at play put toys in the hands of humans big and small. http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/20-things-melbourne/designers-at-play- put-toys-in-the-hands-of-humans-big-and-small-20160502-gok06d.html.
- MASHABLE (cover story), 2015, Scientists are making people jog for 3D-printed chocolate rewards. http://mashable.com/2015/06/25/10-families-3d-chocolate/
- RMIT University, 2015, Chocolate a sweet treat to make us work up a sweat. https://www.rmit.edu.au/news/all-news/2015/july/chocolate-a-sweet-treat-to-make-us- work-up-a-sweat/.
- IBM Research, 2015, Wickets, tweets, and a 3-D printer. http://ibmresearchnews.blogspot.com.au/2015/08/wickets-tweets-and-3-d-printer.html
- 3DERS, 2015, New Australian experiment rewards joggers with 3D printed chocolate treats based on exercise data. http://www.3ders.org/articles/20150625-australian- experiment-rewards-joggers-with-3d-printed-chocolate-treats-based-on-exercise-data.html
- PSFK, 2015, Motivate Workouts with 3D-Printed Chocolate. http://www.psfk.com/2015/06/edipulse-3d-printed-chocolate-motivate-workouts-exertion- games-lab.html.
- 3D Print, 2015, Researchers Using 3D Printed Chocolate Treats to Encourage Physical Exercise. http://3dprint.com/76409/3d-printed-exercise-rewards/.
- Channel 9 News, 2015, Sweet Reward.
- ABC News 24, 2015, Sweet treats after a workout.
- 3AW (Radio), 2015, 3D printer rewards exercise with chocolate messages. http://www.3aw.com.au/radio/3d-printer-rewards-exercise-with-chocolate-messages- 20150706-gi6jzb.
- Herald Sun, 2015, Exercise takes on a sweet approach. http://www.pressreader.com/australia/herald-sun/20150707/281865822137102/TextView.
- RMIT University, 2015, Physical exercise a licence to print chocolate. http://www.rmit.edu.au/news/all-news/media-releases/2015/june/physical-exercise-a- licence-to-print-chocolate/.
- Spring Wise, 2015, 3D printed chocolate according to how much users exercise. http://www.springwise.com/3d-printed-chocolate-according-to-exercise/
- Runner’s World, 2015, Would Chocolate Motivate You to Run, http://www.runnersworld.com/nutrition-for-runners/would-chocolate-motivate-you-to-run