2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Development of a Cooking Support System for Measuring, Storing, Retrieving and Recommending Consumption Data of Seasonings

Research Project

Project/Area Number	24700089
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
Allocation Type	Multi-year Fund
Research Field	Media informatics/Database
Research Institution	Osaka University
Principal Investigator	NAKAMURA Kazuaki 大阪大学, 工学(系)研究科(研究院), 助教 (10584047)
Project Period (FY)	2012-04-01 – 2014-03-31
Keywords	情報システム / 情報推薦 / 視覚メディア処理 / 調理支援
Research Abstract	This study developed a system for supporting non-professional chefs' daily cooking activities by measuring the amount of seasonings consumed during cooking and storing it as numerical data. In addition, the developed system also has a capability to recommend and show the stored data to the chefs as necessary. The developed system is beneficial for non-professional chefs in several ways. First, the system makes it easy for a chef to recreate the taste of meals cooked by himself/herself as well as by other chefs in past. Second, the system is helpful for a chef to properly season a meal which is unusual for the chef. Moreover, consumption data of seasonings measured by the developed system can be used for epidemiological analyses, whose results are quite useful for modern people to care for their health and nutritive status.

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