In China, it is a very significant aspect of eating culture to eat with family. As a result of factors such as distance and time delays, children who live apart overseas cannot always dine with their families. There is an eight-hour time delay, and while dinner is being served in the UK, the Chinese family is already asleep. It is even impossible for children to FaceTime with their parents while they are eating. There are many teenagers who come to the UK to study, and the feeling of loneliness and homesickness is exacerbated by the fact that they eat alone.
A screen programme and an interactive device were designed to solve this "loneliness" problem and allow children abroad to "eat with their family". The interactive device is a chopstick rest, which is a switch that starts the program when you pick the chopsticks up from the rest. Listening to your family's conversation through your computer while eating, as well as watching the food on the screen reducing, as if the shared dish were being eaten by your family.