Encourage Innovative Thinking

[Christina]

Imagine your dream kitchen! Now, stop dreaming and get a bit more realistic - creative, imaginative, innovative - but not in cloud cuckoo land please. 

As part of my college course I have been asked to participate in a group project where we attempt to discover what is required in a Smart Kitchen. (I wanted the Dreamy kitchen but I'm stuck with the Nerdy one. Such is life.) We have to use as many techniques as possible to discover other peoples views on the topic. 

I thought I would use the CESI group would be an excellent place from which to elicit the ideas of technology minded people.  Please, put your imaginations to use and let me know what you think is needed in a Smart Kitchen. What should your kitchen know? What shouldn't it know? What should it do? What shouldn't it? What is the most important thing to you? Does the idea appeal to you? Would you be willing to purchase such a kitchen? What is needed to enable you to buy this kitchen? As much detail as possible please.

A second method we are using is Survey Monkey. One of my team mates has created a survey. It is only a few questions, will take you 2 minutes to complete, tops. Please take the time to answer the questions and please share this link with everyone you know, we want as many responses as possible. You might consider asking your students to complete it too.  https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/28RGWFJ

Thanks for taking the time out to dream at little!

[John Hegarty]

Hmm - perhaps a bit too off-topic for a technology in education forum such as the CESI list.

jh

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[Elizabeth Oldham]

I rarely disagree with jh, but perhaps I do here. Reading Chris's post, it didn't occur to me to question the relevance to the CESI List. It's about applications of technology to which many people in education could relate; the project in which Chris is taking part could be replicated as part of IT/technology courses at school level (consider the "social applications and implications" parts of old Computer Studies courses!) ... so I'm inclined to say it's OK.

Being somebody who lives on my own and generally finds cooking for one person boring and/or unduly time consuming, I'm not sure if I'm an ideal respondent or a hopeless one! Can the smart kitchen help me get a meal in five minutes and clear it up in three minutes? Those were the time limits that my father used to mention as ideal, tongue only partly in cheek; I quote them equally with tongue only partly in cheek. (Before I'm dismissed as utterly hopeless: I do enjoy working on meal preparation when staying with friends - and of course I can do the eating bit OK. Not bad at washing up, either. But now I really am drifting into irrelevance.)

Alas, I don't think I'm being creative, imaginative or innovative.

EEO.
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Subject: Re: [CESI List] Encourage Innovative Thinking

Hmm - perhaps a bit too off-topic for a technology in education forum such as the CESI list.

jh

On 3 Nov 2013 19:16, "Christina" <chrisk...@gmail.com<mailto:chrisk...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Imagine your dream kitchen! Now, stop dreaming and get a bit more realistic - creative, imaginative, innovative - but not in cloud cuckoo land please.

As part of my college course I have been asked to participate in a group project where we attempt to discover what is required in a Smart Kitchen. (I wanted the Dreamy kitchen but I'm stuck with the Nerdy one. Such is life.) We have to use as many techniques as possible to discover other peoples views on the topic.

I thought I would use the CESI group would be an excellent place from which to elicit the ideas of technology minded people. Please, put your imaginations to use and let me know what you think is needed in a Smart Kitchen. What should your kitchen know? What shouldn't it know? What should it do? What shouldn't it? What is the most important thing to you? Does the idea appeal to you? Would you be willing to purchase such a kitchen? What is needed to enable you to buy this kitchen? As much detail as possible please.

A second method we are using is Survey Monkey. One of my team mates has created a survey. It is only a few questions, will take you 2 minutes to complete, tops. Please take the time to answer the questions and please share this link with everyone you know, we want as many responses as possible. You might consider asking your students to complete it too. https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/28RGWFJ

Thanks for taking the time out to dream at little!

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[Eugene Eichelberger]

As someone who used to design kitchens, the goals of "get a meal in five minutes and clear it up in three minutes" is less about technology and more about good design. Appliance location, placement, and utility is far more important than "smart". I own a flat 'smart' hob and hate it. It attempts to regulate the temperature by its own sensors not my judgement. Gas flame ranges are preferred for high-end buyers because it allows the cook to control the application of heat. Cooking isn't about a robotic application thermal radiation to organic matter. The best is a controlled flame; a fire applied to the backside of a plate or container. The "smarts" in a kitchen is more about having a vegetable rinse station next to a utility sink. A counter top, not at the standard height, but one adjusted to the height of the person using. Ergonomics rather than robots. Keep your robot controls out of my kitchen. Food is best when prepared over a flame and having never been in a plastic bag. A truly smart kitchen is a vending machine.

The same philosophy needs to be applied to technology in the classroom. e-book readers have 99% of the technology needed to present highly-engaging content at a fraction of the price of most other solutions presented in this forum. It isn't about toys in the room; it is about preparation and delivery of nutritious knowledge. Most of these robots just take teacher's time and offer little benefit. e-book readers have web browsers and can play video. Are some kids without because the devices you want are 5X as expensive as the simple e-reader?

-Eugene

[Laurence Cuffe]

1) The chemist in me would like hot plates with magnetic stirrers and good temperature control, I like the idea of doing  hot chocolate, without having to watch the pot all the time.  For a lot of recopies good instrumentation and automation could be trans-formative.  Tempering chocolate, making toffee.... slow cooking meat safely. Very few ovens have low temperature controls which are even close to being accurate.

2) I'd like RFID best before dates so that an intelligent fridge can warn me that its probably time to use the mince or whatever is hiding on the back shelf trying to synthesize a new cure for humanity.  

3) I'd like a self stacking dish drawer. Dish drawer's are rather cool but finicky dishwashers from New Zealand. When mine was working,  I generally would pile the dishes on the counter on top, then at some point rinse them off and put them in and set the device loose. If you have two of them they can operate alternately and store the dishes in the drawers that you use routinely.  A robot arm and camera set up which could rinse and stack the dishes into the drawer would be cool. It would watch the counter top and when there was enough dishes present it would load and fire off the wash cycle.

4) I'd also like liquid nitrogen on tap, it makes the best ice cream, and its fast.

However I think most of the above are dream kitchen, not smart kitchen. Smart kitchen would be about good interface design. Most modern ovens can be programmed to cook dishes in time for your arrival home. Most owners only interact with this functionality when they acidently trigger it and have to find out how to get it to stop working so that they can cook food now.

I want a design that can deal with "That casserole I just put in is Beef Bourgenon, and I'll be home by six" if I'm late slow it down." issued as a voice command as I leave the house.

All the best

Laurence Cuffe

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