Cook’s Collage: Two Exploratory Designs

Gathered from observations and studies of how people busily manage tasks amidst distractions, forgetfulness, and multitasking in their homes, we identify two common cooking predicaments. We introduce Cook’s Collage, a context-aware system that passively displays recent activities. We posit that a cook, by glancing at these visual cues, can easily resume his task following an interruption when he otherwise might not be able to recover.