Kitchen Appliances

KITCHENSENSE ARCHITECTURE

KitchenSense is a back-end software and hardware infrastructure
to augment appliances in a domestic kitchen with machine
intelligence. KitchenSense takes the cooking and
kitchen part of OpenMind Commonsense and interfaces it
with sensors on the cabinets, range, fridge, recipe and sink of a
conventional kitchen. Together with immersive displays projected
onto the augmented appliances, KitchenSense attempts to infer
user s intention with commonsense and provide visual feedback
based on what they did before. KitchenSense is able to simplify
the user interface of home appliances, motivate the user to be
aware of concurrent tasks, and help develop productive habits.
KitchenSense consists of input sensors, output projections and a
kitchen event reasoning engine. Input sensors monitor the position
of people and the status of appliances and cabinets. Output
projections are digitally-augmented projections which mediate
people s attention through seamless projected graphics on the
surfaces of the space. A kitchen event reasoning engine uses
OpenMind and ConceptNet to categorize and understand
human behavior.