Redesign recipe-based cooking experiences

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Team Name: Brit

Team Members: Seayeon Lee, Jaehoon Lee, Youngeun Kim, Hyunwoo Kim

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Experience

• Target user: people needing cooking guides to prepare foods
• Experience: how they cook with recipes

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Observations & Interviews

• Four participants are the following:
• A: A extreme cooking novice. He cannot cook without recipe.
• Interviewed by Youngeun
• B: A mid-20 student who cooks for his own food. He uses recipe if he doesn’t know how to cook the wanted meal.
• Interviewed by Hyunwoo
• C: A married man who can follow most of the recipes. He lives in America, and we wanted to know the effect of cultural surroundings.
• Interviewed by Jaehoon
• D: A cooking expert. She cooks for her family. She usually checks recipes only for plating and ingredients. We wanted to know how cooking experts can use recipes.
• Interviewed by Seayeon

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Interview Questions

• Cooking experience
• For whom and how often do you cook?
• Recent experience with recipes
• What did you made with recipe?
• Where do you find recipes?
• When and why do you use recipes?
• How often do you use recipes?
• Please describe any uncomfortable experiences with recipes.
• Do you exactly follow the recipes when you cook? Why or why not?
• Questions after cooking
• How difficult was it?
• Was there any difference in cooking experience if you use recipes or not?
• Was the recipe easy to understand? If not, why was it hard to understand?

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Interesting Moments

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‘A’

‘A’ doesn’t know what happens if butter burns.

“Hum.. I think i need more powder to dough”

Then, ‘A’ pours pancake powder without measuring.

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‘B’

follows media to cook

measuring is

important

needs some tips about

basic of cooking

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‘D’

very good at

cooking

interested in displaying foods

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Needs #1

• They need to find out whether they are capable of cooking the recipe based on their ingredients, tools, and appliances that they have currently.

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Needs #2

• They need to estimate the cost of buying additional ingredients or tools.�(They want to minimize the additional cost if they can)

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Needs #3

• They need to classify the main ingredients and sub-ingredients so that they know which ingredient can be omitted or replaced

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ESSENTIAL CAN BE OMITTED CAN BE REPLACED BY SOJU

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Needs #4

• They need to guess how many people can be served by following the recipe.
• i.e. They need to adjust the amount of ingredients according to the number of people who will be served.

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Needs #5

• They need to estimate how much time will be consumed for following the recipe. (They want to finish the whole cooking process as soon as possible)

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Needs #6

• They need to measure the volume or mass of ingredients without using professional measuring tools.

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Needs #7

• They need to measure the temperature of pan, oven, or oil without using a thermometer.

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Needs #8

• They need to be informed the basic cooking tips or techniques that the recipe doesn't mention.

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Needs #9

• They need to distinguish how much the ingredients are cooked with their eyes or hands.

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Needs #10

• They need to decide which steps can be proceeded simultaneously(or in parallel) so that they can cook without wasting time.

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Needs #11

• They need to cope with unexpected, exceptional incidents so that they don't mess up their food.

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Needs #12

• They need to reduce the amount of food waste and trash that comes from the cooking.

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Insights

• “Video” recipe in facebook page, TV program (ex. 해먹남녀, tasty, 냉부)
• from B, C’s interview
• Preferred “device” (Smartphone VS Computer)
• from among the interview
• Preferred “measuring” method (mL, proportion, spoons)
• from A’s pouring powder, B’s beaker
• Photography for beautiful “plating” (especially for experts)
• from D’s interview
• “Alternative” gradients
• from D’s Mayo->Garlic dipping sauce moment

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Insights

• “Basic” common sense for novice
• from A’s burned butter moment
• “Overview” of recipe for parallel processing
• from the interview of A, B, D
• Check whether this cooking is “on the right track” (ex. is this meat fully cooked?)
• from interview of A, C
• Varying standards of good recipe by level of “cooking skill”
• from among the interview of A < B < C < D
• “Warning” Things you shouldn’t do
• from A’s overheating frying pan moment

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