Chefmate

Iowa State
Houseware Design Chellenge

Duration: 5 Weeks

You hungry?
Let's make some food,
I'll find a recipe

So. Much. Crap.

This recipe for chicken tacos has:

30+

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25

Pages

11

Pages before the recipe begins

And yet contains:

17

Total Ingredients

6

Cooking Steps

1

Annoyed home cook

What's the alternative?

Recipe Book's

  • Limited to books recipe's
  • Can't preview recipes prior to purchase
  • Easy to damage
  • Needs stand to stay visible
  • Heavy/difficult to move

Recipe Apps

  • Limited to the apps recipes
  • Possible additional cost
  • Easy to get cooking oil/debris on the device when scrolling
  • Small format (on mobile device)
  • Expensive device near hazards

Let's Make this experience better.

CHEF MATE

Hands Free

Use hand gestures to move through a recipe

Every Recipe

Uses any free recipe online

Simple Cooking

Formats recipes to simple, clear steps

Begin by selecting any recipe by category's or by search.

Gather all ingredients required

Begin recipe by swiping hand forwards in front of the chefmate, or swipe with the touch screen.

Follow each step as shown

Start, observe, and stop timers hands free with a pinch gesture.

Enjoy the food, yum!

Hands Free Cooking

Chefmate uses its camera to detect hand motion, allowing users to navigate their recipe without touching the screen, preventing oil, salt, and debris from contaminating their device.

Select Recipe

Collect Ingredients

Begin Recipe

Complete Steps

Prompted Timers

Complete!

12mp Camera

Using the 12m megapixel camera, the Chefmate tracks the users hands allowing navigation of the recipe possible without contact. This allows to move forward or backward in the recipe without getting oil, salt, debris, etc on the Device. No more knuckle scrolling on your tiny phone screen, Hooray!

So, where do the recipes come from?

Chefmate uses a process called "Data Scraping." This means an algorithm scans the web, grabs the necessary data from free recipe websites, only keeps essential parts of the recipe while discarding the spam, then formats the recipe for the device

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