1. In this session, we will work with Oliver family persona.
Amy Oliver
mom. a programmer.
Katie Oliver
daughter. age 13.
Tim Oliver
son. age 7.
Ben Oliver
dad. a nurse.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR PARTICIPATION!

2. On a weekend evening, Oliver family sits
together around kitchen table to discuss
their dinner menu throughout next week.
Amy suggests chicken with broccoli for
Monday.
FAMILY PLANNER
Have you ever struggled to choose a meal that everybody wants to eat?
Tim says he’s got bored of eating spinach
sidedishes in school cafeteria, so the
family decides to go with broccoli instead.

3. Amy is in the supermarket. She picks up
chicken that all family members like, and
looks for what she could make with it, and
what she wants to serve with it.
MENU HELPER
System makes suggestion on couple of
dishes using chicken. When Amy selects
couple of them, system makes suggestion
on matching side dishes that family mem-
bers like.
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4. Amy is sitting on kitchen table making
grocery list. System tells Amy about
which items are in sale in Giant Eagle,
and which items are cheaper in Aldi's.
BUDGET PLANNER
Amy plans next week's meal based on
the information. As she makes the plan,
the system shows the cost of each meal
and the total cost of next week's meals.
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5. Oliver family will eat out on Friday. Amy
wonders if they have enough budget to
go to an expensive Japanese restaurant
her children really like.
BUDGET PLANNER
System tells Amy that she made extra
saving from meal plan last week, so she
has extra credit to spend on food. Amy
decides to go to the Japanese restaurant.
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6. Amy is in her bed. System assists her to
review her family’s eating pattern for last
weeks. Amy senses too much carb.
HEALTHY EATING PLANNER
When Oliver family sits together around
kitchen table to discuss next week’s
meal plan, Amy makes suggestions of
dishes that can balance out the carb.
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7. HEALTHY EATING PLANNER
Amy is in supermarket for her weekly
shopping. She grabs pork tenderloin that
is on sale.
System makes suggestions of dishes
throughout the week that would nutri-
tionally balance out the high cholesterol.
Amy selects a few dishes that family
members like.

8. Amy is in her bedroom making meal plan
before she goes shopping. System assists
her to set up different nutritional goals for
family members. Her kids needs more
calory because they play sports, her
husband needs to eat low cholesterol, and
Amy wants to lose 5 pounds.
HEALTH GOAL PLANNER
System makes suggestions of dishes
and recipes that could accommodate
these different needs. For example,
fried chicken with cheese for her
children, steamed chicken without
cheese for her husband, half amount of
steamed chicken with cheese for Amy.

9. Tim is in school cafeteria looking for
snack. System assists him to figure our
what would be good snacks for his health
goal of having more muscle. When Tim
decides to eat chocolate milk, system
gives him a star as award point.
HEALTHY EATING PLANNER
At the end of the month, family mem-
bers sit together around the table.
System shows how each of them are
approaching their health goals. Tim
collected many stars that are enough for
him to get a book as a gift from his
parents.
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10. Amy walks into kitchen and system
informs her that she will need to go for
food shopping in two days. But Amy is
too busy these days.
SHOPPING PLANNER
System makes suggestions of modified
meal plan based on ingredients that she
has at home, so that her family will have
enough food until she will have time in
the weekend.

11. Ben is in supermarket for shopping. He
sees fresh broccoli on sale. System
assists him to figure our what's in the
storage at home, and makes suggestions
of dishes he could make using broccoli
and ingredients at home.
SHOPPING HELPER
When Ben selects couple of dishes,
system automatically generates shopping
list for other ingredients he needs to buy
in order to make the dishes.
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12. Ben has to go to Office Depot nearby
Giant Eagle. He wonders if there's
anything that he can buy.
SHOPPING HELPER
System suggests a shopping list for
Giant Eagle, and tells him that if he
buys them today his wife won’t need to
go to shopping for 3 more days.

13. Ben is in supermarket for shopping. His
wife asked him to buy raisins, but Ben sees
that the supermarket ran out of raisins. He
is not sure what to buy instead.
SHOPPING HELPER
System assists him to figure out that
Amy wanted the raisins for making
salad. System recommends dried
cranberries as substitute that she
sometimes uses for the salad. Ben
picks them up.

14. Amy is very busy this week and next
week. She can’t spend too much time in
neither meal planning nor cooking.
AUTOMATED MEAL OPTIMIZER
System searches database of Amy’s
comfort dishes. Then it automatically
generates sets of optimal dishes through-
out next week, based on budget goal and
health goal she had previously set up, what
they have at home, family schedule,
children’s school meal plan, and quick-
and-easiness to prepare.
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15. NEW MENU RECOMMENDER
Amy wants to try something new tonight,
but not sure whether picky Tim will like it.
System makes recommendations based
on ingredients at home and family
members’ taste preference. When Amy
selects one of it, Amy sees that it is
highly likely that Tim will like it, based on
his past rating patterns on dishes.
Everybody liked the new dish, and Tim
gave such high rating that system asks
Amy if wants to add this new dish to her
repertoire, Amy feels good.
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16. Amy is sitting on the kitchen table to plan
for next week's meal. Oliver family will
have a family trip next week. She is
concerned that certain items in the
refrigerator might spoil while they travel.
SCHEDULE-BASED MEAL PLANNER
System assists her to figure out that
they have eggs, open milk, cottage
cheese, and orange juice. System
makes recommendations of dishes that
they can most effectively use these. It
also recommends family members to
eat these items when they open refrig-
erator for snack.

17. Ben is in kitchen and he's in a hurry.
Today Tim got a music concert ticket
from his friend, which is unanticipated
schedule change. Family dinner today
has to be in real hurry.
EMEGENCY DISH RECOMMENDER
Based on the family meal plan they set
up previously, system automatically
calculates ingredients at home, price,
nutrition factor, taste preference,
leftovers, and expiration dates to make
recommendations of dishes Ben could
quickly make.

18. Ben, Katie, and Tim are in the kitchen.
Mom has a schedule and had told them
she will be late today. They want to start
some cooking for her.
FAMILY COOKING PLANNER
System shows the dishes mom had
planned for today, mom's recipe, and
where she keeps the ingredients. And
then the system show them step-by-
step of how to start preparation.

19. FAMILY COOKING HELPER
Ben and Katie are in the kitchen to
prepare dinner. Today, mom's schedule
unexpectedly changed and she cannot
be at home for dinner. Little Tim is also
away for his friend's birthday party.
System searches the database of dad’s
specialty dishes. And then it makes
recommendations of menu based on
ingredients at home, nutrition, price, and
Ben and Katie's taste preference. Ben and
Katie select chicken curry, which they
really like but Amy and Tim doesn’t much.

20. Amy is cleaning the table after dinner.
Today Tim didn’t feel like eating, so she
has much amount of leftover.
LEFTOVER PLANNER
System assists Amy to flexibly change
the meal plan based on leftovers. It
automatically calculates cost, nutrition
factors, and expiration date for the
leftover. And then it makes recommen-
dations of what Amy could make with
those leftovers, and on which day she
would serve them.