SmartKitchen
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In the research project „SmartKitchen“ at Stuttgart Media University, an interdisciplinary team is developing solutions for integrating digital and personalized media into the future cooking environment. These solutions aim at making the cooking process more intuitive, social and fascinating. ...learn more
Project status: Under Development
RealSense™, Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence
Intel Technologies
OpenVINO,
Movidius NCS
Overview / Usage
The SmartKitchen project started in February 2016 and will run for three years. In the first phase, we conducted a thorough user research that analyzed people’s cooking behavior and their positive experience while they are cooking. We also explored, why some people are unwilling to cook. Based on the findings, we will develop prototypes to be tested in lab and real-life environments for their level of user centricity and user experience.
One possible technical solution for higher user experience could be in-situ-projections: This means that recipe sites, cooking tutorial videos, videochat-windows and facebook- or newsfeeds can be projected onto any kitchen surface. For example, a recipe website could be projected onto a kitchen wall or the counter, and people could control the recipe-site via gesture, gaze or speech, instead of operating a laptop or tablet with greasy fingers.
The new concepts and technical solutions are being developed in compliance with European Privacy Protection laws. In that way, the project also contributes to the discussion about the challenges of connected, smart devices within the Smart Home.
The project is funded by the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF) and our industrial partner E.G.O. Elektro-Gerätebau Oberderdingen GmbH. Our academic partner is the he Institute for Visualization and Interactive Systems (VIS) at University of Stuttgart.
Methodology / Approach
The focus is on user-centered exploration of user interaction and user experience. The procedure is based on the user-centered product development process according to DIN ISO 9241-210: 2010. This ensures that the needs and requirements of the users are taken into account in a special way. However, it is not only measurements that are decisive for the evaluation of the user experience, but also methods that, in addition to quantitative assessments of the user experience, also provide information that specifically enables designers to gain a comprehensive understanding of the experience and the design aspects and elements responsible for it. For this purpose, for example, the valence method is used, a procedure that allows the formative evaluation of the user experience.
Aspect of privacy
The new usage concepts and technology solutions are developed in compliance with European data protection regulations. Thus, the project also contributes to the debate on the challenges of networked, smart devices in the smart home.
Technologies Used
Hardware Used :
- Intel Movidius Neural Compute Stick
- Intel Realsense camera SR300
- Aaeon UP Board
- Sony Xperia Touch Projector
- Raspberry Pi 3 (for running the middleware)
- etc
Software Used:
- Intel OpenVino
- Realsense Linux SDK
- Node JS
- NCS SDK
- Web technologies
- etc
