"Social hosusekeeping through intercommunicating appliances and shared recipes merged in a pervasive web-services infrastructure" (SOCIALandSMART)

FP7-ICT-2011-8

Grant agreement no: 317947

SocialandSmart (SandS) is a EU funded research project starting on November 2012. Its goal is to build up a physical and computational networked infrastructure allowing household appliances to better meet the needs of their owners. With this Internet of Thing structure we virtually inject intelligence into the appliances. But, rather than endowing them with autonomously cognitive chips, in the purely humanoid thread of robotics, we ask for a social network to elaborate finely tuned instructions to be dispatched to the appliances. Thanks to its massive data feeding, the network is enabled to sophisticatedly rule the appliances so as to maintain their software constantly updated to the currently best practice. The crude matter dealt with by this structure is recipes, i.e. sequences of parameters which, dispatched to the appliances in terms of operational instructions, make them functioning properly. A distinguishing feature is the open-source thread. Software such as washing cycles or cooking timing is no longer a private matter of appliance producers. Rather, they emerge from a knowledge milieu where social network members share and refine their attitudes with other people who own the same or other smart appliances.

In order to achieve these objectives we need to obtain the greatest amount of information of users, and their relation with the appliances. This questionnaire is intended to collect user habits in the use of the dishwasher that usually have at home. The operation is very simple, users must indicate the most common situations in which they use each of the programs of their appliance.