What if future dining involved eating robots? We explore this question through a playful and poetic experiential dinner theater: a tangible design fiction staged as a 2052 Paris restaurant where diners consume a biohybrid flying robot in place of the banned delicacy of ortolan bunting. Moving beyond textual or visual speculation, our ``dinner-in-the-drama'' combined performance, ritual, and multisensory immersion to provoke reflection on sustainability, ethics, and cultural identity. Six participants from creative industries engaged as diners and role-players, responding with curiosity, discomfort, and philosophical debate. They imagined biohybrids as both plausible and unsettling -- raising questions of sentience, symbolism, and technology adoption that extend beyond conventional sustainability framings of synthetic meat. Our contributions to HCI are threefold: (i) a speculative artifact that stages robots as food, (ii) empirical insights into how people negotiate cultural and ethical boundaries in post-natural eating, and (iii) a methodological advance in embodied, multisensory design fiction.
翻译:如果未来餐饮涉及食用机器人会怎样?我们通过一场充满趣味与诗意的体验式晚宴剧场探讨了这个问题:这是一场具身化的设计虚构,场景设定为2052年巴黎的一家餐厅,食客们在此食用一种生物混合飞行机器人,以替代已被禁食的珍稀鸟类圃鹀。我们的"戏剧中的晚宴"超越了文本或视觉层面的推测,融合了表演、仪式与多感官沉浸体验,旨在引发人们对可持续性、伦理与文化认同的思考。六位来自创意产业的参与者以食客和角色扮演者的身份参与其中,表现出好奇、不适与哲学思辨。他们将生物混合体想象为既合理又令人不安的存在——由此引发的关于感知能力、象征意义与技术接纳的问题,已超越了对合成肉类的传统可持续性讨论框架。本研究对人机交互领域有三方面贡献:(i) 将机器人作为食物呈现的思辨性人造物;(ii) 关于人们如何在后自然饮食中协商文化与伦理界限的实证洞察;(iii) 具身化多感官设计虚构方法论的进展。