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I was very pleased to lead a Ubicomp’12 submission during my time with Newcastle University’s Culture Lab. Our full paper was entitled “The French Kitchen: task based learning in an instrumented kitchen”, and reflected on an evaluation of the French kitchen. The kitchen gives audio instructions in French to cooks who are learning that language. [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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