Usability study of kitchen app with multimodal interaction among beginner & intermediate cookers

This paper presents the usability study of a cooking application, KitchenGeek with a wearable device, Smart M between two user groups, beginner and intermediate cookers to test if the application and device lowers the gap of time taken for both of the user groups to complete the cooking tasks. The results of this paper indicates that KitchenGeek and Smart M did lower the gap of time taken for task completion and it helps beginners to cook better than not being able to cook at all. An independent-samples t-test was conducted to compare the score of beginner and intermediate groups of cooker. The result shows that there was no significant difference in time taken to complete all cooking tasks for beginner and intermediate group of cookers (p= 0.85). This research suggests that beginners should use KitchenGeek and Smart M to improve their cooking skills and they will be able to cook at the same rate as intermediate cookers.