How do people interact with an Alexa cook-a-long skill and is this a realistic application of the tech?

This problem was pretty easy to answer from the start. They didn’t - this was a new world we where entering that we wanted to discover if it was at all possible? Can Alexa help us or hinder us into following a Food recipe?

The first mistake we made was jumping straight into the digital side of the prototype. We thought that understanding the limits of Alexa was key. It helped - we found out that there is an 8 second memory, and could only re-call in a linear way. You couldn’t ask Alexa to go back and tell you how many eggs.

No, the biggest problem was understanding how we make a recipe, how we move around the kitchen, how we prepare for the food. It quickly became aparant that we need need to drop building prototypes with the Engineers, and take them into the kitchen and learn how we followed and prepared recipes.

Team
Stephen Moon
Mike Skelton
Rob Scott
Jullian Tovey
Ryan Hope
Tom Walker
David Fine