Enabling calorie-aware cooking in a smart kitchen
Resource
Proceedings of the Third international Conference on Persuasive Technology (PERSUASIVE 2008).
Journal
Persuasive Technology (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)
Pages
116-127
Date Issued
2008-06
Date
2008-06
Author(s)
Oinas-Kukkonen, Harri
Hasle, Per
Harjumaa, Marja
Segerståhl, Katarina
Øhrstrøm, Peter
Abstract
As a daily activity, home cooking is an act of care for family members. Most family cooks are willing to learn healthy cooking. However, learning healthy cooking knowledge and putting the learned knowledge into real cooking practice are often difficult, due to non-trivial nutritional calculation of multiple food ingredients in a cooked meal. This work presents a smart kitchen with UbiComp technology to improve home cooking by providing calorie awareness of food ingredients used in prepared meals during the cooking process. Our kitchen has sensors to track the number of calories in food ingredients, and then provides real-time feedback to users on these values through an awareness display. Our user study suggests that bringing calorie awareness can be an effective means in helping family cooks maintain the healthy level of calories in their prepared meals. © 2008 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.
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