Como-story
- 1. como
- 2. COMO is a tangible device that teaches children to recognize healthy and unhealthy food from the physical transformations Como experiences when scanning and recognizing food.
- 3. !!! !!! !!! !!! !!! Como is a project that takes place in schools along a terms with children aging between 6-10.
- 4. como Teachers present the project to children as an exercise, explaining the goal of it: learning to select healthy and unhealthy food while monitoring the average index of nutrients intake of the class. Every week a children is encharged of Como.
- 5. Children are given Como for a week time, so that they learn by themselves (with help of Como) to identify food according to its nutritional qualities.
- 6. + Como works with a food recognition system and Code-Bar system in order to read the food. +
- 7. Como is a gure, neither a person, nor an animal. It’s a friend that deforms its body informed by the nutritional intake of food exagerating the e ects by either staying “thin”, becoming ill, or gaining weight.
- 8. Children learn from the shape Como takes, if the food they are choosing to take is healthy or not (for them).
- 9. Como is a friend... it cares about children... and parents!