Expandable Research
CHOP's UI focuses around 3 main experiences...
A. Visual instructions give kids a step by step guide on how to complete a meal
B. Visual cues are projected on and around the object or ingredient the user needs to interact with.
C. Kids receive positive feedback in the form of visual effects and graphics
CHOP Product Presentation
“1/3 of American kids are overweight or obese, and are on track to have shorter lives than their parents”. Data shows kids are doing less at home cooking. Today children only receive an average of 3.5 hours of real nutrition education a year. This is dwarfed by the billions corporations spend purposely marketing their unhealthy products to children. Research shows that a persons lifelong eating habits are formed in their childhood also kids who help cook and prepare meals more often have a statistically increased preference for fruits and vegetables over processed foods; and that change lasts their lifetimes.
In todays fast paced digital world it is harder than ever to hold kids attention. Todays kids want engaging and easy to access content at a moments notice. They have rightly come to expect more interactive and technological experiences in their lives.
This is where CHOP comes in.
My goal was to design a product that will enhance kids experiences in the kitchen, making cooking more engaging and fun using instructions, feedback and visual cues resulting in more frequent cooking and healthier diets for its users. I knew that another cooking app wasn’t going to have the impact I was looking for so I wanted to bring the simple functionality of a tablet app out of the screen and into the users physical environment.
CHOP does just that by using projection mapping and object tracking to transform empty kitchen countertops into multi-media environments that engage and enhance kids learning and cooking experience in the kitchen. CHOP uses projection mapping technology to cast high-resolution augmented reality projections on countertops and object tracking technology to detect and respond to children's input in real time giving the user a fully immersive experience.
This product is meant to supplement the need for parental supervision in the kitchen so it uses a parent app to send skills and recipe lessons wirelessly to the projector. This gives parents or teachers automatic access to what their child is doing. CHOP also includes a dock that can be mounted above any counter top for perfect projection alignment and wireless charging.
Children with healthy diets receive direct benefits towards brain and body development, are less distracted, more active, and experience fewer chronic health problems, such as cancer, heart disease and diabetes later in life. I believe CHOP is technically and financially feasible and could be a essential tool to captivate, entertain and teach kids about cooking, get them back in the kitchen, and change the culture around food in todays youth.
Thank you.