Pei-Yu (Peggy) Chi

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  Article: A Smart Kitchen for Nutrition-Aware Cooking.

  Jen-hao Chen, Pei-Yu (Peggy) Chi, Hao-Hua Chu, Cheryl Chia-Hui Chen, Polly Huang
  IEEE Pervasive Computing. 01/2010; 9:58-65.
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  Available from: Hao-Hua Chu

  Chapter: Enabling Calorie-Aware Cooking in a Smart Kitchen

  Pei-Yu (Peggy) Chi, Jen-Hao Chen, Hao-Hua Chu, Jin-Ling Lo
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  ABSTRACT: As a daily activity, home cooking is an act of care for family members. Most family cooks are willing to learn healthy cooking. However, learning healthy cooking knowledge and putting the learned knowledge into real cooking practice are often difficult, due to non-trivial nutritional calculation of multiple food ingredients in a cooked meal. This work presents a smart kitchen with UbiComp technology to improve home cooking by providing calorie awareness of food ingredients used in prepared meals during the cooking process. Our kitchen has sensors to track the number of calories in food ingredients, and then provides real-time feedback to users on these values through an awareness display. Our user study suggests that bringing calorie awareness can be an effective means in helping family cooks maintain the healthy level of calories in their prepared meals.
  06/2008: pages 116-127;
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  Chapter: Designing Smart Living Objects – Enhancing vs. Distracting Traditional Human–Object Interaction

  Pei-yu (Peggy) Chi, Jen-hao Chen, Shih-yen Liu, Hao-hua Chu
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  ABSTRACT: To realize Weiser’s vision of ubiquitous computing, a popular approach has been to create so-called smart living objects, which are everyday objects in our living environment augmented with digital technology. In this paper, we survey different smart living objects and classify their design choices into different types of digital enhancement. These design choices are about choosing the relation between the object’s digital enhancement and its traditional use – (1) whether the object’s digital function enhances ordistracts its original function, and (2) whether the object’s digital interaction matches orconflicts with its original interaction. Finally, we formulate design heuristics that new digital enhancement should consider the object’s traditional function and interaction method, and avoid conflict between the digital enhancement and the traditional use.
  08/2007: pages 788-797;