https://buddy-cook.herokuapp.com/
BuddyCook project aims to develop a cooking pan temperature feedback system for those with learning disabilities, in order to assist in the understanding of cooking, timing and temperature of pans. To improve the user interaction and areas where the cooking process can be made more user friendly for those with special educational needs.
BuddyCook is a web-based application which provides interactive cooking instructions for SEN (special educational needs) users, who are assumed to be able-bodied. An inbuilt temperature sensor within the cooking pan and an encoded timer allows instructions to be given based on the temperature of the food, and duration of cooking.
The user navigates through the recipe using large forward and back arrow buttons. One step of the recipe would be shown on each page, accompanied by an image, and the current temperature of the pan. Each page displays the timer and temperature readings of each stage.
This project was initiated and funded by Wooden Spoon: The Children's Charity of Rugby, and was developed by a team of 10 undergraduate students from Imperial College London under the supervision and guidance of Dr. Ian Radcliffe from Imperial College London, Department of Bioengineering.
The team comprised of Maksim Lavrov, May McCool, Terence Seow, Rachel Tan, Yong Shen Tan, Sung Kyun Yi, Fiona Boyce, Joan Tso, Balint Hodossy and Husheng Deng.
The team would like to thank the following people for their contributions and advice to the team throughout the course of the project:
- Mahendran Subramanian, Balasundaram Kadirvelu and Pavel Orlov from Dr. Faisal's Research Group, Imperial College London
- Paschal Egan and Niraj Kanabar from Imperial College London, Department of Bioengineering
- Dr. Thomas Clarke from Imperial College London
- Ben Crundwell from Cambridge Design Partnership
- Barrie Ellis from Special Effects
- Charlie Danger, Simon Bull, Christian Dryden, Rachel Moore, Hélio Lourenço and Diane Arthurs from ACE Center
Should you have any queries about the above project or wish to find out more about how you could contribute, please kindly reach out to us at wsurop2018@gmail.com.