UBICOOK

Where you can be the cook

Caitlin Cagampan ! Hannah Chen ! Narine Cholakyan! Justin Li! Steven Rick

THE GAP

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We have neither the time nor the creativity !

NO more manual input!

+ Intelligent Kitchen Pantry Recipe Finder

DESIGN INSIGHT DATA

How often do you cook?

165

responses

18.8%

1% 11.5%

25.5%

MOTIVATION:

43.0%

80% of users cook.

Thus, validating our user groups of novice cooks.

ANALYZING THE DATA

All the time (Everyday) [19] Majority of the time (4-6 days of the week) [42] Sometimes (2-3 days of the week) [71] Rarely [31] Never [2]

DESIGN INSIGHT DATA

How often do you use recipes to cook?
1.2% 18.2%

8%

INSIGHT:

34.5%

38.2%

Majority of users use recipes to cook

Some of the time (63)

Everytime (2) Rarely (57)

Most of the time (30) Never (13)

It is easier to keep organized and it helps prevent a lot of trial and error which could waste time."

ANALYZING THE DATA

DESIGN INSIGHT DATA

When deciding what to cook, how do you go about preparing your ingredients?

How they prepare ingredients

INSIGHT:

majority of users
0 30 60 90 120

choose a recipe based on ingredients they they already have

See what I already have, then choose a recipe based on that (112) Choose a recipe, then buy supplementary ingredients (76) Choose a recipe, then shop for all the ingredients needed (61) Other (7)

ANALYZING THE DATA

DESIGN INSIGHT DATA

A recipe is like the foundation to make something. But you can digress !om it and add your own things to make the recipe yours. It's a guideline. Or a blueprint.

I trust that the recipes already have the avor proles right; I'm worried about throwing stu" together that doesn't work."

FINAL DESIGN INSIGHTS

1. Users need a recipe in order to give them some structure and direction! 2. !Users need recipes based on what they already own.
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TECHNICAL MOTIVATION
Decrease Cost with Scanner

Recipe Cloud Recipe Cloud Internet vs Recipe Book

Food Picture Trend

Train Online Database

ENVIRONMENT SET UP

broccoli, carrot, eggplant, garlic, green pepper, lemon, pineapple, potato, red onion, scallion, strawberry, zucchini

IMPLEMENTATION WALKTHROUGH
Bag of Words Classication! Support Vector Machine (SVM)!

Keypoint Detection (SIFT)!

UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING (WEISER)

1 2 3

Networked, distributed and transparently accessible!

Interaction with Humans more hidden

Devices need to be aware of environment context!

Ultimately, smarter devices, smarter environments and smarter interactions between users and devices

FUTURE WORK
Environment Fridge Cam Activity Awareness Smarter Device
Scan everything at once

Interaction
Motion Sensor

Customize Query Recipe Substitutions Freshness level

Voice Control

THANK YOU!

UBICOMP
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Ability to have all this data that will be useful! Network of computers! Time Constraints! Counting Calories/health! Eventually useful for quantied self! Consumption logging health logging