Kitchen Appliances

INTRODUCTION

Kitchen appliances have so many built-in functions that they can
be difficult to control for simple tasks. What if the appliances
could understand what you need, and encourage you to succeed at
that? This paper presents kitchen appliances that are networked
with a series of embedded sensors and a central common-sense
database to understand their context and offer useful and relevant
interface options.
Intelligent environments usually model situations to improve user
experience. They have the potential of transforming a physical
space into a responsive computer. Most appliances at home
already contain sophisticated sensors, displays, actuators and
computer controls. If these sensors are integrated into a
knowledge-based network, the appliances may be able to better
understand human behavior. Investing physical spaces with
intelligence can make an informative physical space less
distractive, while enhancing the efficiency of tasks. Context-
aware design observes human behavior to understand intention
and offer functional aid. Easy-to-associate information
retrieval and fail-soft recommendations make intelligent interfaces
more reasonable to people. Human commonsense can help
machine to avoid some common mistakes and optimize human
understanding ways of problem-solving.