Interactive Chef: A Task-Sensitive Assistant

NU 2003-004

Inventors

Lawrence A. Birnbaum

Leonard Chen

Kristian Hammond*

Short Description

IChef is an intelligent system that emulates a human cooking assistant.

Abstract

Northwestern University researchers have developed a voice-activated, context sensitive software application to aid in culinary training in classrooms or simple cooking instruction for the home cook. The user is able to interact with the system by using voice commands. The IChef system is able to display recipes, give instructions and play videos showing specific steps of the recipe to aid the user. Since the IChef has a focused understanding of the user's needs in the context of each recipe, a rich voice interaction is created between the user and the system.

Applications

• Culinary training

Advantages

• Context-sensitive
• Intelligent
• Voice-activated

Publications

Chen L, Cheng S, Birnbaum L, Hammond KJ. The Interactive Chef: A Task-Sensitive Assistant (2002). Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Intelligent User Interfaces. 234-234.

IP Status

Issued US patent number 7,890,336.