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Barriers and Negative Nudges: Exploring Challenges in Food Journaling

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Arvind K. Jagannathan,

Gregory D. Abowd,

James FogartyAuthors Info & Claims

CHI '15: Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Pages 1159 - 1162

https://doi.org/10.1145/2702123.2702155

Published: 18 April 2015 Publication History

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Although food journaling is understood to be both important and difficult, little work has empirically documented the specific challenges people experience with food journals. We identify key challenges in a qualitative study combining a survey of 141 current and lapsed food journalers with analysis of 5,526 posts in community forums for three mobile food journals. Analyzing themes in this data, we find and discuss barriers to reliable food entry, negative nudges caused by current techniques, and challenges with social features. Our results motivate research exploring a wider range of approaches to food journal design and technology.

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DOI:10.1145/2702123

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