This site describes using dispersed task-specific annotation to

By admin on October 28th, 2007

This site describes using dispersed task-specific
annotation to make information available throughout a
kitchen. We present digital information on walls,
countertops, tables, appliances, the floor and water itself.
The resulting annotated space can help people to
collaborate, to work more efficiently and to avoid accidents.
The appliance and kitchen design industries have been
working to use appliances to communicate with each other
and with users. Our approach is to annotate the entire
kitchen space for the many purposes that were not designed
to be contemporaneous but often are. This paper promotes
the possibility and value of using cameras and projectors to
make total interfaces from traditional kitchen spaces.
The use of the physical world as a user interface is
becoming a reality. Inexpensive hardware can now be
utilized to react to where people are and what they are
doing. Such context-aware use of sensors and effectors
to model tasks and augment performance is becoming more
and more possible.