Pressure cooker is an integral part of Asian kitchen, and is frequently used in Nepal. Steam under pressure generated while cooking has high boiling point and great penetrating power. The use of pressure cooker in kitchen is associated with unintentional injuries that mostly include pressure cooker burns. In rare instances the pressure cooker may accidently explode and may cause serious injurie...

The problem of designing objects for people having some kinds of disability represents a challenging subject for designers. The sources of people’s disabilities may vary from accidents, to diverse diseases, or genetically ones. The paper studies the situation when people cannot use both of their limbs stressing on arthritis as the main cause of this fact. In order to give these people the oppor...

We describe a feature extraction method for general audio modeling using a temporal extension of Independent Component Analysis (ICA) and demonstrate its utility in the context of a sound classification task in a kitchen environment. Our approach accounts for temporal dependencies over multiple analysis frames much like the standard audio modeling technique of adding first and second temporal d...

Food and the home are central to lived reality of people, both historically presently. Thus domestic kitchens – as spaces within in which food is cooked prepared for consumptio...