Design in everyday cooking: Challenges for assisting with menu planning and food preparation

Abstract

In this study, we introduce challenges for assisting with everyday cooking activities. Menu planning is the first step in daily cooking, and there are many commercial services available. We introduce the case study of “cookpad,” one of the largest recipe portal sites, and illustrate their efforts to maintain an up-to-date recipe search system. As an academic challenge, situated recipe recommendation is also introduced. Food preparation is another important topic. We present our perspective based on the relationship between recipe texts and cooking activities, along with related studies.