From Chefs to Kitchen Captains: A Leader Figure for Collaborative Networks in the Kitchen

This presentation will explore the advantages of a kitchen setting as a place to enhance collaborative learning and design. We will then introduce a special persona present in such a collaborative cooking session – the Kitchen Captain – who enhances communication and ideas among the participants while giving cooking support to whoever might need it. We will introduce her traits as a pattern language. These concepts were all mined out from actual experiences of collaborative cooking – CoCooking – and were derived from a broader persona called the Generator.

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