Posts Tagged ‘the ambient kitchen’
KitchenCam: another Ambient Kitchen project
Posted by: clare on: August 2, 2012
This summer I had the pleasure of supervising Alex Key, a Bachelors student visiting from the University of Münster. His project involved looking at how we might auto-generate videos of cooking in the kitchen. The idea is that perhaps I want to be able to capture the record of my making a certain dish — [...]
French Kitchens
Posted by: clare on: June 10, 2012
One of my tasks before CHI involved building and delivering three portable kitchens to our partners in ECLS (Education, Communication and Languages Sciences). This was one of the final deliverables of the Language Learning in the Wild project, which led to the building and evaluation of the French Kitchen — I started at Culture Lab [...]
More about those threads of work
Posted by: clare on: April 21, 2012
At the start of this month, I mused upon time management and handling multiple threads of work. Since those threads are reasonably diverse at the moment, I thought I’d share a bit more about them: There’s a lot of stuff around redesigning the Ambient Kitchen — three separate threads, I’d say: The underlying software architecture (including, [...]
More activity recognition
Posted by: clare on: April 17, 2012
Hey, remember the utensils in the Ambient Kitchen? We embed WAXs (wireless accelerometers) in them, so we can do a bit of activity recognition — that is, use the sensor data to figure out what’s going on in the kitchen. After my previous post about this, I realised there was more to tell. The main [...]
Utensils in the Ambient Kitchen
Posted by: clare on: March 18, 2012
I’m doing lots of work with the Ambient Kitchen, the technology-enabled kitchen that we’re currently using to support language learning, but that was first built to support people living with dementia. I’d like to talk a bit more about one facet of it today, the utensils. A key part of the kitchen’s workings (whether using [...]
The EuroKitchen
Posted by: clare on: February 13, 2012
My last post opened with my saying how I couldn’t believe I’d already spent four days at Culture Lab… now it’s been four weeks. Blimey. It’s probably about time I devoted a little space to explaining my work. One of the stars of the Culture Lab, certainly when people visit and want to see demos, is [...]
