Title :
A system to recommend dishes by the real time recognition of dining activity
Author :
Inoue, Tomoo ; Matsusaka, Yosuke
Author_Institution :
Grad. Sch. of Libr., Inf. & Media Studies, Univ. of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
Abstract :
Enhancement of dining environment by information technology is explored in this paper. A table system to recommend additional dishes according to the dining status is introduced. By modeling dining behavior as the sequence of eating, dining status is estimated from the history of bites. The system recognizes the user´s dining activity in real time, and stores its history. It is expected to be useful in the environment where additional dishes are often ordered such as a pub. By iterative design, the hand recognition method in the system was changed from the use of a visual marker in the first prototype to image processing in the current prototype. Evaluation was conducted to show the improvement of the recognition.
Keywords :
behavioural sciences computing; image recognition; information technology; real-time systems; recommender systems; software prototyping; dining activity; hand recognition method; image processing; information technology; iterative method; real time recognition; recommend dishes; table system; visual marker; History; Image recognition; activity recognition; dining computing; recommendation; tabletop system;
Conference_Titel :
Systems Man and Cybernetics (SMC), 2010 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Istanbul
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-6586-6
DOI :
10.1109/ICSMC.2010.5641941