Choptop: An Interactive Chopping Board

Choptop is an interactive chopping board that provides simple, relevant recipe guidance and convenient weighing and timing tools for inexperienced cooks. This assistance is particularly useful to individuals such as students who often have limited time to learn how to cook and are therefore drawn towards overpriced and unhealthy alternatives. Step-by-step instructions appear on Choptop's display, eliminating the need for easily-damaged recipe books and mobile devices. Users navigate Choptop by pressing the chopping surface, which is instrumented with load sensors. Informal testing shows that Choptop may significantly improve the ease and accuracy of following recipes over traditional methods. Users also reported increased enjoyment while following complex recipes.