A cooking guidance function on Android tablet for Homemade Cooking Assistance System

To assist busy people such as working persons, students, and nurturing families to have economical and healthy lives with homemade cooking, we have proposed a Web-based HOmemade Cooking Assistance System (HOCAS). Previously, we implemented the menu planning function and the cooking-step scheduling function at the server using JSP/Servlet, so that a user can plan a menu for the whole week and make a cooking-step schedule to efficiently cook multiple dishes at the same time. Unfortunately, a user needs to refer the next cooking-step on a paper during cooking process, which is actually not easy at critical timing in a kitchen, because the schedule is output as a PDF file. In this paper, we propose a cooking guidance function on an Android tablet as a Java application to navigate cooking-steps through touch panel operations. We confirmed the effectiveness by experimentally cooking four dishes using this function.