Eye and Voice Control for an Augmented Reality Cooking Experience

Abstract The fast rhythm of our lives makes it hard for us to find time to cook. When we do, we often have to choose between the commodity of cooking the same familiar food several times and the uncertainty of trying something new. This paper introduces AREasyCooking, an application which uses new technologies to help a user make healthier decisions about their culinary habits. Thus, using augmented reality and bar code reading, AREasyCooking helps users bring in the application the ingredients they have available. The application uses two major sources of recipes (well-known cooks and traditional recipes) to offer users possible variants of dishes with available ingredients. Finally, AREasyCooking guides users step by step through videos in preparing the recipe. Controlling these movies is done with the help of the eyes and the voice since hands are busy cooking.