According to an earlier survey I conducted among young adults, among 77 responses, 3 in 10 people find cooking themselves extremely difficult when they first moved out family. And 92.8% people agree that “Being involved in the kitchen at a young age would make me loving cooking more” and 59.8% participants wish “my family could teach me cooking more when I was young”. Unable to cook themselves is a big barrier for young adults to become independent.

This project focuses on "how to encourages children more involved in the kitchen, in order to prepare them for future independence"

If children are presented with risky items with a serious functional purpose, they will conduct more cautiously, conduct more experimentation, and gain more confidence and independence than overly safe items. We should focus on designing for children "as safe as needed" rather than "as safe as possible" (Brussoni et al., 2012)

This project focuses on engaging children in cooking with their whole body, like they are dancing with the food. It also comes from the consideration that children don't have the fine motor skills to control a knife yet.

I collaborated with Nicolai for børn, a cultural child center in Kolding, for user testing. To help participants better understand the session, a poster, a info flyer and consent forms in Danish or English were prepared.

In total, seven children, from 4 - 8 years old, interacted with SeaSaw. After their interaction, I interviewed their parents and got feedbacks for the next iteration.