面對全球化挑戰，如何以高科技提升生活品質，已成為世界先進國家科技政策推動重要的議題。行政院2008年提出以「智慧台灣」主軸下之「優質生活」議題為焦點，積極運用新科技的智慧化居住空間是重要的議題之一。參考內政部智慧化居住空間發展策略中所揭示的「智慧好生活」，在安全、健康、便利、舒適、節能的五大功能目標之下，由設計團隊研發智慧化廚房功能，本研究針對廚房使用者的需求加以分析與了解，以便將需求分析的結果提供設計師參考。因此，本研究採用立意抽樣法，針對居住於五大都會區與兩大次都會區且家中具備資訊設備(電腦與網路)之「廚房主要使用者」做為本研究之研究對象，採用敘述統計、重要程度-需求程度二維分析、因素分析和獨立樣本T檢定等方法，分析廚房主要使用者對智慧化廚房功能的需求，以及不同科技接受度和家庭屬性對於智慧化廚房功能需求的差異。研究結果顯示：廚房使用者對於智慧化廚房特定的功能項目有較高的重要性與需求程度的認知；廚房使用者對於智慧型廚房功能需求程度之排序依序為：災害警示安全、節能、飲食健康、互動便利和舒適；當受訪者的科技接受度愈高時對於各項智慧化功能均有較高之需求，而每天上網四小時以上之受訪者較每天上網時數未滿四小時者有要高之需求。此外，家中有65歲以上老人者對於飲食健康和便利等智慧化廚房的使用需求較高。本探索研究可以開啟並增進設計師或工程師對於智慧化廚房功能需求的了解，作為研發的參考。

Faced with the challenges of globalization, enhancing the quality of life with high-tech has become an important issue in the policy of
technologically advanced countries. Therefore, the Executive Yuan of Taiwan in 2008 initiated the "Smart Taiwan" and "Quality Life" focusing issues, to promote the use of new technologies, including smart living spaces, in response to the challenges of the future needs and to improve people's satisfaction in their lives. Under the targets of safety, energy-saving, health, convenience and comfort, the engineers in our teamdevelop several smart kitchen functions. This study aims to analyze what the users want in a smart kitchen, so that a design centered on the Smart Kitchen can be realized in a quality smart living space. Therefore, this study employed purposive sampling method to conduct the survey. The selected samples were the main users of home kitchen and their houses had to be equipped with the related equipments (such as computer andInternet) in five metropolitan regions and two sub-metropolitan regions. The
research analyzes the users’ attitude toward the Smart Kitchen’s
importance and degree of demands. We utilized importance-and-degree of demands analysis to evaluate the demands of the Smart Kitchen’s equipments to be the priority for the designer to design the Smart Kitchen. Further, to provide base for market segmentation, we conducted independent sample t-test to explore the variance of different sample users’ attitude toward the Smart Kitchen.The results indicated that the main users of the kitchen preferred some functions of smart kitchen, safety and energy-saving were two of the most urgent functions of the Smart Kitchen demanded by the users. Kitchen’s functions need to get advanced from basic needs to enjoyed needs. The users of ―high technology acceptance‖ tend to have higher demand toward the five dimensions of kitchen: safety, health, energy-saving, convenience and comfort. Those users who use Internet more than 4 hours a day tend to have higher demand on dimensions. Users have family members aged above 65 tend to have higher demand on dimension of health and convenience. Therefore, the above stated difference may be a critical reference for marketers when making segmentation strategies for special market.