A co-Design approach to develop a smart cooking appliance. Applying a Domain Specific Language for a community supported appliance
This work addresses accessibility challenges in cooking for people with disabilities, but it is incremental as it applies existing co-design and DSL methods to a specific domain.
The research tackled the complexity of meal preparation for people with disabilities by prototyping a Community Supported Appliance using a co-design approach and a Domain Specific Language, resulting in a system that supports user independence in daily cooking activities.
Our environment, whether at work, in public spaces, or at home, is becoming more connected, and increasingly responsive. Meal preparation even when it involves simply heating ready-made food can be perceived as a complex process for people with disabilities. This research aimed to prototype, using a co-Design approach a Community Supported Appliance (CSA) by developing a Domain Specific Language (DSL), precisely created for a semi-automated cooking process. The DSL was shaped and expressed in the idiom of the users and allowed the CSA to support independence for users while performing daily cooking activities.