Ambient kitchen: designing situated services using a high fidelity prototyping environment

The Ambient Kitchen is a high fidelity prototype for exploring the design of pervasive computing algorithms and applications for everyday environments. The environment integrates data projectors, cameras, RFID tags and readers, object mounted accelerometers, and under-floor pressure sensing using a combination of wired and wireless networks. The Ambient Kitchen is a lab-based replication of a real kitchen where careful design has hidden the additional technology, and allows both the evaluation of pervasive computing prototypes and the simultaneous capture of the multiple synchronized streams of sensor data. Previous work exploring the requirements for situated support for people with cognitive impairments motivated the design of the physical and technical infrastructure and we describe both our motivations and previous work on interaction design in kitchen environments. Finally, we describe how our lab-based prototype has been put to use as: a design tool for designers; a design tool ...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2009
• Where: PETRA
• Authors: Patrick Olivier, Guangyou Xu, Andrew Monk, Jesse Hoey
• Keywords: Ambient Kitchen, Emerging Technology, Kitchen, Pervasive Computing, PETRA 2009