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Workshop on Multimediafor Cooking and Eating Activities

Since people cook by manipulating foods, watching their conditions, listening to the sound, smelling the meal, and tasting it in the end, cooking support system also requires such multimedia sensing capability. Thanks to modern technology, the basic environment in a kitchen is becoming rich. Recently, home appliances such as a refrigerator, a microwave oven, and a cooking stove, are equipped with multiple sensing devices and a computer processor. Some may even have a capability to equip additional devices such as a camera, a microphone, a RF-ID tag reader, and so on. Reflecting this trend, researches on supporting cooking and eating activities have started in many corners of the world individually.

As the fifth meeting of this workshop series, it aims to provide an opportunity for such research groups to discover each other, introduce their trials, and discuss how it should be and where they should go.