FridgeSort - Improving Fridge Sorting behaviour to reduce Food Waste through a Mobile Serious Game
Markus Löchtefeld, Frederik Møller, Lukas Kyster, Anton Nygaard Petersen, Sture Nicolai Jaqué, Anita Larsen, Hamzah Ziadeh · 2023
Food waste in private households in industrialized countries is a growing concern. Inadequate food storage practices can lead to storing items in a way that leads to forgetting them until they become spoiled, increasing food waste. In this paper, we present FridgeSort, a serious mobile game that aims at teaching users how to sort their refrigerators with the underlying goal of reducing household food waste. The game was evaluated with 14 participants, and the results show that the participants were able to quickly learn the sorting method and recall it after an extended period of time. Overall, the results suggest that FridgeSort succeeded in teaching users how to sort a fridge that can be applied to the real world and lead to a reduction in food waste.