
Amora
Experience Design/Smart Tech
Amora allows children to experience cooking family recipes, bringing the warmth of “momma’s touch” even when they’re away from home. Each system includes a pair of camera and projector hubs, as well as temperature and weight-sensitive cookware. With these components, Amora captures the parent’s cooking process through computer vision, transforming it into a personalized, responsive recipe for the child. Communicated through projections, Amora reinvents how family recipes are shared.
Brief:
To design smart home technology.
Roles:
We were all heavily involved in all the parts of the project but as far as individual contributions:
Arushi Agrawal: 3D Modelling, Poster
Daniel Lee: Project Manager, Graphics, Poster
Annie Shin: Sketching, Form Development, Animation
Alex Trimmingham: Rendering, Graphics
Noah Posner: Professor
Duration:
12 weeks
Research
We started our research by exploring the smart home technology space in itself. We interviewed people with various levels of exposure to smart home technology, we went through Lowe's and Best Buy to explore the current market and read research papers about the usage of smart tech in various areas like hospice, mental health, security and research papers about the elements of home.
Our biggest takeaway was that

One of the main questions we asked ourselves to lead our design concepts was:
How might we design interactions that enhance the feeling of home?












After gathering feedback, we narrowed down to the following:

Going off of cooking together, we landed on Amora:

Concept Development and Testing

Jetson Nano Computer Vision Chip Credit: https://grabcad.com/library/nvidia-jetson-nano-2
