The interactive chef: a task-sensitive assistant

ABSTRACT

In this paper, we describe the Interactive Chef (IChef), an intelligent system that attempts to emulate a human cooking assistant. The user navigates through a recipe using voice, while IChef reads aloud each step. IChef is designed to be aware of the present context and exploit this knowledge by answering questions about ingredients or techniques posed by the user in natural spoken language.

REFERENCES

• 1: David Franklin , Shannon Bradshaw , Kristian Hammond, Jabberwocky: you don't have to be a rocket scientist to change slides for a hydrogen combustion lecture, Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces, p.98-105, January 09-12, 2000, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States [doi>10.1145/325737.325792]
• 2: Franklin, D., Bradshaw, S., and Hammond, K. (1999). Beyond "Next slide, please": The use of content and speech in multi-modal control. In Working Notes of the AAAI-99 Workshop on Intelligent Information Systems.
• 3: Heckerman, D., and Horvitz, E. (1998). Inferring Informational Goals from Free-Text Queries: A Bayesian Approach. In Proceedings of Fourteenth Conference of Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence.

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.5 INFORMATION INTERFACES AND PRESENTATION (I.7)
      H.5.2 User Interfaces (D.2.2, H.1.2, I.3.6)
          Subjects: Natural language

Additional Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.3 INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL
      H.3.1 Content Analysis and Indexing
          Subjects: Linguistic processing

  I. Computing Methodologies
  I.5 PATTERN RECOGNITION
      I.5.5 Implementation
          Subjects: Interactive systems

General Terms:
Design, Experimentation, Human Factors, Performance, Theory

Keywords:
context-sensitive, intelligent assistant, speech recognition