The European Digital Kitchen Project

This article reports on the European Digital Kitchen, an EU-funded language learning project which promotes learning of languages, cultures and cuisines in digital interactive kitchens. The project involves taking a normal kitchen and specifically adapting it for language learning using the next gen...

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Autores: Seedhouse, Paul|||0000-0002-0099-3167, Preston, Anne, Olivier, Patrick, Jackson, Dan, Heslop, Philip, Balaam, Madeline, Rafiev, Ashur, Kipling, Matthew
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2014
País:España
Institución:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ddd.uab.cat:116751
Acceso en línea:https://ddd.uab.cat/record/116751
https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.5565/rev/jtl3.554
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Digital technology
Language learning
Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT)
Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)
Technologie digitale
Apprentissage des langues
Tâches enseignement des langues (TBLT)
Interaction Homme - Machine (IH)
Der digitalen Technologie
Sprachenlernen
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Sumario:This article reports on the European Digital Kitchen, an EU-funded language learning project which promotes learning of languages, cultures and cuisines in digital interactive kitchens. The project involves taking a normal kitchen and specifically adapting it for language learning using the next generation of digital technology, namely activity recognition and sensor technology. We intend that learners will be able to learn aspects of the language whilst performing a meaningful real-world task and will simultaneously experience the cultural aspect of learning to cook a foreign dish. The article starts by outlining the project background, including rationale, motivation and aims. We then explain in detail how the technology works (using photographs) and outline our design methodology, which blends Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT) and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). We then present 3 extracts of Digital Kitchen interaction to illustrate the type of learning which takes place.