weekly report 11/27 - 12/3

Weekly report (2006/11/27 – 2006/12/3)

• kitchen
• sensor testing, re-installation (Both of cabinet and stove have passed the test of weights!!!)
  
• buy fire extinguisher
• paper reading: (summary: as the attachments)
  
• Reiko Hamada , Ichiro Ide , Shuichi Sakai , Hidehiko Tanaka, Structural analysis of cooking preparation steps in Japanese, Proceedings of the fifth international workshop on on Information retrieval with Asian languages, p.157-164, September 30-October 01, 2000, Hong Kong, China
• Siio's papers:
• 椎尾 一郎, 浜田 玲子, 美馬 のゆり, Kitchen of the Future: コンピュータ強化キッチンとその応用, コンピュータソフトウェア (日本ソフトウェア科学会) Vol. 23, No. 4, pp. 36-46, ISSN0289-6540, 岩波書店, 2006
• 椎尾 一郎, 宮澤 寛, 美馬 のゆり, "Kitchen of the Future: 調理を記録・公開・再生するキッチン", 第12回インタラクティブシステムとソフトウェアに関するワークショップ (WISS 2004), 日本ソフトウェア科学会研究会資料シリーズ, ISSN 1341-870X, No. 34, pp. 5-8, 2004.12.1-3.
• Itiro Siio, Noyuri Mima, Ian Frank, Tetsuo Ono, Hillel Weintraub, "Making Recipes in the Kitchen of the Future", Extended Abstracts, Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (ACM CHI 2004), page 1554, April 24-29 2004, Vienna, Austria.
• 美馬のゆり, 有田志子, 椎尾 一郎, 「学びの場としてのキッチン：ITキッチンの提案」 日本教育工学会第20回全国大会, pp..229-232. 2004.9.23-25.
• 椎尾一郎, 美馬のゆり, Ian Frank, 小野哲雄, Hillel Weintraub, "Kitchen of the Future: レシピ作成を支援するキッチン", 情報処理学会シンポジウムシリーズ, インタラクション2004論文集, ISSN-1344-0640, Vol.2004, No. 5, pp. 237-238, (社)情報処理学会, 2004.3.4-5 (2004.3.5).
  
• CHI2005 Work-in-progress browsing
  
• related projects/people:
• Counter Intelligence
• Bradbury, J. S. -- author of Hands On Cooking
• CALO - lab of activity recognition...
  
• book reading:
  
The World is Flat, Chap 1,2
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Onyx - cell phone

Really want this!
Onyx

weekly report 11/20 - 11/26

Weekly report (2006/11/20 – 2006/11/26)

• Kitchen – healthy cooking:
• sensor tuning - found out the problem to cause unstable (board setting over sensors)
  
• camera and hand tracking survey - normal 320x240 webcam will be enough for tracking
  
• visiting Siio's kitchen and lab in Tokyo (11/21)
  
• paper reading:
• PowerLine Positioning: A Practical Sub-Room-Level Indoor Location System for Domestic Use (also presented in lab seminar)
• Mobile Learning in Japan: Why the Future has Already Arrived in Asia, By Michael K. Kato and Vincent C. Ricci (a friend who has BS at Stanford and Master at NYU shared his article with me)
  
• (prepare for 11/29 AI midtern exam)
  

your way to coway

competition website
There are a lot of interesting works about kitchen - take a look!

cutting scale

news
website

CUTTING SCALE 2006

"Here is a concept for a cutting board that has an integrated scale
within a defined area on it's surface. Ingredients can be cut and
measured on the same surface with very little extra effort.

There has been a tranformative trend in cooking based around the
science of food. Central to this is the idea that precise measurement
leads to more possibilities for new flavors. Recipes will become more
demanding, requiring simple ways to be precise in the kitchen.

Cutting scale, measures 10" x 15" and has won a 3rd place in
designboom's "your way to coway" competition. Exhibition in Seoul
Korea to be announced."

weekly report 11/13 - 11/19

Weekly report (2006/11/13 – 2006/11/19)

• Kitchen – healthy cooking:
• meeting: discuss recognition twice
  
• matrix of cooking spaghetti - analyze and discussion
• finish:
• install sensors of stove
• test weight sensors (very unstable now - need to revise sensor deployment)
  
• RFID reader almost ready
  
• install a PC in kitchen (but wire to monitor has to be re-deployed)
• paper reading:
• PowerLine Positioning: A Practical Sub-Room-Level Indoor Location System for Domestic Use (30%)
  
• book reading
• "designing for interaction", chapter 5

Reactable - modular (audio) synthesis

website - pictures
news in Engish

news in Chinese with video
This is so cool!!!!
The interaction and interface are pretty.
But is it easy to learn? There are so many components!

Clipped Tags

IBM's solution to RFID security woes
news

The World's first screen to be made of concrete

news
more
This is quite cool

virtually feel fabrics

news
more detail(with paper)
Is it really possible to simulate all tactile feelings?

smart kitchen

discussion, year 2000
studio, some methods, not technology

Open Course

with CS courses:
MIT
Tokyo Univ
Wasade Univ

weekly report 11/06 - 11/12

Weekly report (2006/11/06 – 2006/11/12)

• Kitchen – healthy cooking:
• install sensors of cabinet (under the countertop)
  
• stove testing and plan for install sensors under the stove
  
• paper reading:
• Cook's Collage: Deja Vu Display for a Home Kitchen, proceedings of HOIT: Home-Oriented Informatics and Telematics 2005
  http://www3.cc.gatech.edu/fce/ecl/projects/dejaVu/cc/index.html
  
• Memory for Actions: Designing a Cognitive Augmentation System, in Abstract Proceedings of CAC: Cognitive Aging Conference 2006
  
• Ferret: RFID Localization for Pervasive Multimedia, proceedings of ubicomp2006
  
• book reading
• "designing for interaction", chapter 4-5
  

cook's collage

project page
Quan Tran

weekly report 10/30 - 11/05

Weekly report (2006/10/30 – 2006/11/05)

• Kitchen – healthy cooking:
• IKEA kitchen installation ready (11/1)
• Plan / discussion of installing sensors
• sensors and devices are ready in lab now
• install from Monday
• Nutrition info survey
• Current methods to measure nutrition facts
• Research institutes in Taiwan:
• It seems 台大食品科技所 is not suitable for us to cooperate –
  different focus. Should check Medical School.
• Finish to read one book about nutrition
• There are some diseases we can focus on, e.g. 痛風,
  but we can't focus on obesity
• Also there are many points of views that support us to
  work on smart kitchen
• Safety related plan
• ·Paper reading:
• 1. Intelligent Bathroom
• 2. The Diet-Aware Dining Table to Observe Dietary Behaviors
  and the Smart Lunch Tray to Persuade Healthy Dietary Behaviors
• Book reading:
• 1. "designing for interaction", chapter 4
• 2. (a book about nutrition)

weekly report 10/8 - 10/29

3-Week report (2006/10/8 – 2006/10/29)

• CHI 2006 Interactivity:
• Revised interface with Denny and Jack
• 6-page extended abstract with Jackie
• Supplements
• Video (about 3.5 minutes)
• Submitted: 2006/10/20 by Jackie
• Kitchen – healthy cooking:
• Visited IKEA with Jenhao (10/13)
• Confirm the layout and types of kitchen components
• Ordered load cells
• Bought IKEA kitchen in IKEA (10/28)
• Paper reading:
• (Ubicomp2006 conference paper) SenseCam: a Retrospective Memory Aid
• (Ubicomp2006 video paper)*5
• Spalogue: Designing Men-Women Communication in a Public Bath
• Designing Systems of Ubiquitous Sports Equipment
• Interactive Gigapixel Prints: Large, Paper-Based Interfaces for Visual Context and Collaboration
• Wizard of Oz Sketch Animation for Experience Prototyping
• Sketch-A-Move - Design Inspired Technology for Children
• Book reading:
• "designing for interaction", chapter 1~3
• Summarize the trip to US (ubicomp2006, YEF to companies, Berkeley, MIT, etc.)

holography

Holography全像攝影
Last month we saw this @MIT Musuem
(利用雷射反射成像，從不同角度看會有不同的面貌 - e.g. from smile to wave to kiss)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holography

This evening I went to elite (敦南誠品)
and found Bluestone(青石) has it:
a piece of work with 15x10cm takes NTD2900.