Nor Azman Ismail, Nor Azrini Jaafar, Masitah Ghazali, Nurul Aiman Ab. Majid, Nur Zurriyyati Imani Zamri and Yohgamalar Naidu Gunasegaran
Department of Software Engineering, Faculty of Computing, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
Abstract
This project presents the usability study of a cooking application, KitchenGeek with a wearable device, Smart M between two user groups, beginner and intermediate cookers to test if the application and device lowers the gap of time taken for both of the user groups to complete the cooking tasks. The results of this paper indicates that KitchenGeek and Smart M did lower the gap of time taken for task completion and it helps beginners to cook better than not being able to cook at all. An independent-samples t-test was conducted to compare the score of beginner and intermediate groups of cooker. The result shows that there was no significant difference in time taken to complete all cooking tasks for beginner and intermediate group of cookers (p= 0.85). This research suggests that beginners should use KitchenGeek and Smart M to improve their cooking skills and they will be able to cook at the same rate as intermediate cookers.
KitchenGeek Equipment
Our equipment are KitchenGeek Application on a smartphone using Android platform and Smart M, a wearable technology. KitchenGeek application is a mobile application that has a database of dish recipes along with the instruction on how to cook the dishes. Other than that, user can also create their profile to save and rate recipes as well as post their own recipes on social media. Smart M is a wearable device, inspired from a Kinect Technology that allows user to control the app through hand gestures and voice technology. It is equipped with IR Emitter and IR Sensor that senses hand gestures, Touchpad that allows user to scroll or click, Speakers for user to listen to recipes, Camera that detect hand gestures and Microphone that allows user to say out the dish name or the ingredients name.
Paper: Usability Study of Kitchen app with Multimodal Interaction Among Beginner & Intermediate Cookers
