The method for monitoring an activity of a cognitively impaired user using adevice having abody resting on a plurality of support areas and loadable by the cognitivelyimpaired user,generally comprises the step of measuring a plurality of force values exertedby a weight of aload to corresponding ones of the support areas the step of obtaining a stateof an activity ofthe cognitively impaired user based on the measured values and the step ofgenerating asignal indicative of the state of the activity. The state of the activitytypically can be a givenstep in a recipe to be cooked on a smart stove in order to assist acognitively impairedperson in the completion of a cooking activity.
