SoFo
new way to cook foods with your ears

SoFo the smart pan

People don't have an enjoyable cook experiences because of the boring cooking process. Sometimes it makes people feel stressful and even worse, that mess up everything and feel more stressful. Lots of them choose to stay away from their kitchen and barely cook again.

By creating a smart pan that choose and play music based on what type of food you cooked. It will be interact with the mobile app to bring an enjoyable cooking experience full of music.

Courses: WNM 635 (Spring 2017); WNM 618 (Fall 2017)

Instructors: Changying Zheng; Michael Catanzaro

The Product

AS a Cookware

It's a excellent performing stainless nonstick cooking pan with the aluminum core, 18/10 Stainless cooking surface for durability and dishwasher safe. It comes with two sizes: 12 inches and 14 inches.

AS an instrument

Based on the chosen recipe in SoFo app, it will start to play a music playlist that match the length of the cook time, and the music will stop automatically when the food is ready to eat. Also, it has a Mix Mode allowing user to mix seamless music to bring more creativity in the cooking experience.

The App

TASK FLOW 1: COOKING

1. Open the app and put food in the Sofo Smart Pan
2. Choose the recipe and start to play music
3. The app will play music during cooking
4. Music will stop when the food is done


TASK FLOW 2: MIX MODE

1. Open the app and put food in the Sofo Smart Pan
2. Choose Mix Mode and start to cook
3. The app will play random music during cooking
4. You can save it as a new mix track afterward


TEST IT

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