Literature review seminar presentation at 10 weeks into my PhD studies. This review presents a selection of ways in which researchers have tried to improve performance of cooks in the family kitchen and highlights the growing concern that this may be missing the joy, creativity and social importance of cooking in our lives.

1. HCI and Shepherd’s Pie
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rilmara/3377798391/

2. Shepherd’s Pie
• Traditional, very popular*, recognisable
• Simple concept
• Surprisingly complex to make
* not with everyone

3. From many fields of
computer science
• HCI
• Ubi-comp
• AI
• Multi-media
• Persuasive technology
• Technology designers
• Robotics

4. Nakauchi & Fukuda
2005 Intelligent Kitchen

5. Recipe support citation tree*

6. Recipe support citation tree*
*shrub?

7. Key papers

8. counterActive
• Ju, Howitz, Judd, Lee at MIT
• 2 page extended abstract at CHI ’01
50+ citations
• Cookbook projected onto the counter

10. Supporting inexperience

11. Cooking Navi
• Hamada and Okabe et.al., Tokyo
• Multi Media ’05, 20+ citations
• Recipes are complex constructions of
“Action Units”
• Cook’s challenge is to complete multiple
recipes at the same time

12. recipes in parallel

13. recipes in parallel
system schematic

14. recipes in parallel
system schematic
cooking display

15. Cooking aid for
cognitive disorder
• Miyawaki & Sano, Osaka
• Multimedia for Cooking
and Eating ’09
• Interactive cooking aid
• Case study with young
woman with aphasia

16. Supporting distractions

17. Cook’s Collage
• Tran, Calcaterra and Mynatt, GIT
• Home-Oriented Informatics and Telematics ʼ05
40+ citations
• Kitchen is full of interruptions
• Display of last 6 actions works as memory-aid

18. Multiple webcams
capture activity

19. Multiple webcams
capture activity
Last 6 actions
shown in comic
strip style

20. Multiple testing cycles
• 2002 social interruptions while adding
ingredients
• 2005 dual task + interruptions
• 2005 compared learning of young and older
adult over multiple sessions, dual task
• 2007 multiple sessions built trust in system
but only for younger adults

21. Supporting healthy cooking

22. Calorie-aware kitchen
• Chi, Chen, Chu and Lo, Taiwan
• Persuasive Technology ’08
• Kitchen augmented with scales
• Wizard of Oz food identification
• Feedback nutritional info to cook

23. As cook moves
ingredients around,
the display shows
nutritional info

24. As cook moves
ingredients around,
the display shows
nutritional info

25. Just playing with technology

26. Kitchen as GUI
• Bonanni, Lee and Selker, MIT
• Attention based design
• 30+ citations
• Kitchen becomes an immersive interface

27. Endogenic cueing - seen in field
of view
Exogenic cueing - outside of field of view bu
related to object needed

28. Endogenic cueing - seen in field
of view
Exogenic cueing - outside of field of view bu
related to object needed

29. Endogenic cueing - seen in field
of view
Exogenic cueing - outside of field of view bu
related to object needed
“Heat sink”
indicates
temperature
of water

30. Celebratory Technology
• Grimes and Harper, CHI 2008
• Research focuses on problems
• Need for efficiency
• Lack of experience
• Lack of nutritional knowledge
• Distractions

31. Supporting family connections

32. Terrenghi
Living Cookbook
Personal Ubiquitous
Computing ’07

33. Terrenghi
Living Cookbook
Personal Ubiquitous
Computing ’07
Record a recipe

34. Terrenghi
Living Cookbook
Personal Ubiquitous
Computing ’07
Record a recipe
Play back to learn a
recipe

35. Preliminary thoughts
• Using kitchen is another location for “digital
artifacts” (Bell & Kaye 2002)
• User centred research is lacking
• Good kitchen practice absent
• Very little support for older adults

36. The End
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Bibliography www.users-cs.york.ac.uk/~buykx