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Cooking has played an essential role in the growth of culture and civilization for the past 1.8 million years. However, the lockdown in various countries, including Germany, has prompted people to improve their health and well-being due to the coronavirus pandemic. While doing this, searching for recipes becomes one of the popular and essential activities as it allows people worldwide to prepare dishes from various countries. But finding recipes on the internet is like searching in the wild with thousands of recipes available for a single dish. Traditional recipes are essential in a human being’s life. However, for students away from home or working young people who have little time to cook, many recipes have been forgotten for a long time. Therefore, MISOhungry gives solutions to both the user groups through this platform. The recipes provided are by scraping data from online food blogs to create recipes complete with ingredients nutritional information. On the same site, youngsters may also access traditional recipes provided by the elderly. Studies show that sharing recipes linked with memories stimulates generative activity in older adults and makes them happy later. The study demonstrates that the platform is accessible to both user groups, young people are interested in receiving traditional recipes, and they would like to use this platform which directly bridges the generation gap in recipe sharing, search, and management. MISOhungry promotes the idea of “Happiness is Homemade” by making cooking more accessible to both user groups.
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Thakur, P., Chandna, S. (2022). MISOhungry: A Platform that Encourages Easy Access to Recipe Search, Management, and Traditional Recipes. In: Soares, M.M., Rosenzweig, E., Marcus, A. (eds) Design, User Experience, and Usability: Design Thinking and Practice in Contemporary and Emerging Technologies. HCII 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13323. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-05906-3_19
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