PROCEEDINGS IPMU '08
Smart Kitchen: A User Centric Cooking Support System
A. Hashimoto, N. Mori, T. Funatomi, Y. Yamakata, K. Kakusho, M. Minoh.
Several cooking support systems
have been studied to give users instructions
based on the recipes step-by-step, using multi-media contents.
These systems usually disturb users’
cooking process forcing them to provide
information to the system in order
to give them beneficial information.
In this sense, these systems are
considered to be ”system centric”.
We propose a system called ”Smart
Kitchen” considered to be in ”user
centric”, in which a user can cook
normally without being concerned
about the system. Smart Kitchen
can understand cooking processes, in
other words, what the user is doing.
In this paper, we discuss the design
of the Smart Kitchen system and
explain three essential modules of
tracking food, recognizing food material,
and recognizing cooking action.
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