Article: Proposal of an integral model of human-food interaction: insights for social systems design Journal: International Journal of Agile Systems and Management (IJASM) 2024 Vol.17 No.5 pp.48 - 72 Abstract: Designing social systems conducive to long-term positive outcomes for individuals requires a nuanced yet accurate understanding of humans as intricate systems. Despite a corpus of knowledge on human factors influencing behaviour, these are often studied in separate paradigms, challenging system designers to define complete and precise human requirements for human-environment interactions. Embracing the transdisciplinary nature of human factors, this research integrates these dependencies into a more comprehensive representation of human behaviour in a system model. Utilising a model-based systems approach, the paper proposes and validates a system model of human-food interaction in modern society. The visualisation exposes how current 'behaviour change' solutions may be dulling our interoceptive sensitivity across the human lifecycle in favour of increasingly accessible external motivators of behaviour. This research advocates for human needs and highlights potential pitfalls of systemic assumptions of behavioural design approaches, contributing to more informed development of sustainable social systems. Inderscience Publishers - linking academia, business and industry through research

Title: Proposal of an integral model of human-food interaction: insights for social systems design

Authors: Ysanne Yeo; Masahiro Niitsuma

Addresses: Graduate School of System Design and Management, Keio University, Yokohama, 223-8521, Japan ' Graduate School of System Design and Management, Keio University, Yokohama, 223-8521, Japan

Abstract: Designing social systems conducive to long-term positive outcomes for individuals requires a nuanced yet accurate understanding of humans as intricate systems. Despite a corpus of knowledge on human factors influencing behaviour, these are often studied in separate paradigms, challenging system designers to define complete and precise human requirements for human-environment interactions. Embracing the transdisciplinary nature of human factors, this research integrates these dependencies into a more comprehensive representation of human behaviour in a system model. Utilising a model-based systems approach, the paper proposes and validates a system model of human-food interaction in modern society. The visualisation exposes how current 'behaviour change' solutions may be dulling our interoceptive sensitivity across the human lifecycle in favour of increasingly accessible external motivators of behaviour. This research advocates for human needs and highlights potential pitfalls of systemic assumptions of behavioural design approaches, contributing to more informed development of sustainable social systems.

Keywords: human behaviour; human intelligence; human-environment interaction; transdisciplinary research; social systems; model-based systems approach; systems theory.

DOI: 10.1504/IJASM.2024.140464

International Journal of Agile Systems and Management, 2024 Vol.17 No.5, pp.48 - 72

Received: 14 Sep 2023
Accepted: 11 Feb 2024
Published online: 19 Aug 2024 *

Title: Proposal of an integral model of human-food interaction: insights for social systems design

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