-Cooking is the theme that causes interest to everyone as element that is essential in life. Everyone try to cook, but fire and knifes are dangerous to handle for children. So children are felt difficult to cook directly. In this paper, we describe about development of cooking system that gives imaginary cooking experience to children. Our cooking system consists of two major technologies (Augmented Reality, Tabletop display) that can interact with user. Using augmented reality technology gives to user more arresting and accessible virtual cooking environment. Using tabletop display that provides multi-touch can provide interaction between user and the cooking system effectively.
Cthat cook food that is essential in the life. People like ooking is subject that excite interest to anyone as action delicious food and want to cook with theirs own hands. In the case of children, because it is dangerous to handle fire or knife in cooking, there is difficulty to cook food with theirs own hands. Augmented reality cooking system that uses tabletop display is a virtual cooking application for children. Cooking system developed in this paper is applying an augmented reality technology to overlap 3D graphic objects to real world image. So it is more realistic than a normal 3D virtual environment system. Our system uses tabletop display interface that can support multi-touch and multi-users. So we are able to provide intuitive interface for the users and computers.
Hardware of the system is consisted of the miniature kitchen set and a tabletop display. The miniature kitchen is the place to put cards that express kitchen stuff, ingredients and etc. There is a marker used to make augmented reality on Cards and Our system recognize it to demonstrate augmented reality. Tabletop display shows augmented reality image of cooking system on the screen. The user can interact with both tabletop display and miniature kitchen set. Figure 1 shows the overview of our cooking system.
Figure 1 overview of cooking system
In the case of general augmented reality system, usually,
interaction depends on marker. Generally markers are used as
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Tabletop display can provide rich and intelligent interaction
through analysis of the touch input [
In this paper, we select "French toast" among various kinds of recipes and compose system. Because French toast is popular food for children and its making process is simple. Process to cook French toast is just roast bread that soaked in mixed egg and milk liquid. So we thought that French toast is suitable for our research. Figure 2 shows French toast.
Table 1 shows Kitchen stuff and ingredients of French toast. Table 1 kitchen stuff and ingredients of French toast Main material Bread, egg, milk, salt, strawberry jam Sub-material Sugar powder, Oil, butter Kitchen stuff Fry pan, vessel
In this way, to make process simple, we omit sugar powder that is not important between these materials and butter that is putted on the fry pan. We use only important materials that are bread, egg, and milk. Finally we create markers to represent the materials.
French toast is a cooking that is made through process of roast bread soaked in mixed egg and milk liquid. Necessary hand gesture, command and events are shown in Table 2. The “Break egg” command generates an event that changes the state of the egg object to “broken”. The “Material mixture” command generates an event that changes state of the objects to “mixed” state. The “Fire on” command generates event that changes state of the bread on fry pan to “roasted bread”. Cooking system is run by these gesture commands.
Table 2 necessary hand gesture, command, and events Hand gesture command events break egg The egg is broken
Egg milk mixed and are
Our cooking system takes advantage of augmented reality technology and makes user experience cooking process. By using tabletop display interface, we can provide intuitive interaction. Children can imaginarily experience cooking as it is not dangerous to use our cooking system. In present state, we have developed the simple system for cooking. In future research, we will develop intuitive cooking gesture and handle various cooking.