Cueing kitchen: A smart cooking assistant

Due to problems with attention, cognition, memory, and executive functions people with Cognitive Impairments face difficulties in independently completing certain instrumental activities of daily living such as meal preparation. The purpose of this research study was to understand specific problems people with cognitive impairments face in their activities around their kitchen, specifically focusing on meal preparation tasks. Ethnographic interviews were conducted with people with Traumatic Brain Injury and specific unmet needs were identified. The Smart Cueing Kitchen, a cognitive orthosis with advanced sensing and prompting tools was designed to satisfy some of these unmet needs. This paper reports the design rationale for deployment of different system technologies in the kitchen and proposed future developments are discussed.