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INTERACTION PROJECTS:
CITY SCARS PARALLEL CUSINES FUTURE OF THE BOOK ERICSSON KOMATSU INDUSTRIAL SOUND    
     
THE VISION    
 
Parallel cuisines is a vision about the experience of individuals cooking together across different physical spaces. 

Users of this design, communicate through an electronic kitchen tablet which pulls together a variety of visual channels through small cameras at very different angles in the kitchen. The primary view is given by the tablet itself, whereas supportive angles such as a clear topview of the tabletop would give a clearer overview of chosen ingredients and the way the user proceeds.

Finding users of this system can be done through searching by ingredients, location, popularity, or as an option arbitrary finds, from channels that have been declared as open networks, similar to the fashion we recognize in twitter. Before this, priority is upon close networks, being our closest friends, family and developed contacts to whom there is comfort in opening a visual channel to one´s kitchen.

In essence, this system provides a rather new and spontaneous form of discovering what others are cooking at the same time, and allows for a rich overview of synchronous activities with alike nature.

This perspective could encourage users to be more spontaneous and explore more about how to cook new kinds of meals, or as simple as tweak their existing traditions.
 
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ENTRANCE INTERSECTIONS  
 

The principal idea is being able to connect with anyone online who is using the same application. It appears important to display the time any user has been connected, as to evidence whether it would be possible or relevant to catch up with their cooking.

This information, together with a preview of possible selected ingreditents (if scanned to the camera) could determine whether this would be the connection to opt for.

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INITIAL THOUGHTS  
 

Across time and cultures, humans have positioned the kitchen in their minds and lives to have a pivotal role in their homes. The kitchen space unites people, and it behaves as the environment in which we recharge and find new energy through our eating habits. In the kitchen we treat ourselves to take care of our most basic needs, an indispensable factor which we may treat according to our demands. We attribute it as a core place to spend our time, and the quality of our cuisine habitat are crucial to our wellbeing. It is at the kitchen we initiate our daily interactions and where we have the chance to impress and indulge in our sense of taste.

As the world globalizes further, and we become more connected across geographical locations we have the possibility to embrace the cultural differences in how we make food, directly from our homes. Regardless how much we may be inspired by foreign cuisines while travelling, most often we are constrained to a specific location. If we intersect our curiosity for how others prepare and design their own meals, with our own capacity to take on new challenges we find a remarkable opportunity to indulge with fresh approaches and build knowledge around food.