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GroFin: enhancing in-store grocery shopping with a context-aware smartphone app

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Christoph Wimmer,

Thomas GrechenigAuthors Info & Claims

MUM '19: Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia

Article No.: 29, Pages 1 - 11

https://doi.org/10.1145/3365610.3365630

Published: 26 November 2019 Publication History

Abstract

Grocery shopping is a regular necessity typically conducted in-store, with available alternatives such as online grocery shopping still not fully established yet. To address challenges experienced by shoppers in a store environment, two supporting modes were derived, implemented in a prototypical smartphone application using a minimal attention user interface and evaluated in an experimental field study. The two supporting modes consist of a novel map representation of shopping lists and a contextual proximity notification system. The evaluation results show an increase in efficiency in the process of grocery shopping, resulting in reduced shopping time, optimized shopping paths in the store, minimized dependency on external support and preservation of the shopper's cognitive effort. Acceptance of the introduced supporting modes was high which is a crucial indicator for future work.

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Yazaki TUriu DWatanabe YTakagi RKashino ZInami M(2023)“Oh, could you also grab that?”: A case study on enabling elderly person to remotely explore a supermarket using a wearable telepresence systemProceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia10.1145/3626705.3627799(340-352)Online publication date: 3-Dec-2023
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Index Terms

GroFin: enhancing in-store grocery shopping with a context-aware smartphone app
1. Applied computing
  1. Operations research
    1. Consumer products
2. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. HCI design and evaluation methods
      1. Field studies
    2. Interaction paradigms
      1. Graphical user interfaces
  2. Ubiquitous and mobile computing
    1. Empirical studies in ubiquitous and mobile computing

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MUM '19: Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia

November 2019

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ISBN:9781450376242

DOI:10.1145/3365610

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Fabio Paternò
CNR-ISTI, Italy
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University of Helsinki, Finland
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University of Hannover, Germany
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Benthem de Grave RBull CMonjardino de Souza Monteiro DMargariti EMcMurchy GHutchinson JSmeddinck J(2023)Smartphone Apps for Food Purchase Choices: A Scoping Review of Designs and Opportunities and Challenges (Preprint)Journal of Medical Internet Research10.2196/45904Online publication date: 14-Feb-2023
https://doi.org/10.2196/45904
Yazaki TUriu DWatanabe YTakagi RKashino ZInami M(2023)“Oh, could you also grab that?”: A case study on enabling elderly person to remotely explore a supermarket using a wearable telepresence systemProceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia10.1145/3626705.3627799(340-352)Online publication date: 3-Dec-2023
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3626705.3627799
Yabe SUeda MNakajima S(2021)A Comparative Method Based on the Visualization of Cosmetic Items Using Their Various Aspects2021 IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE)10.1109/ICCE50685.2021.9427774(1-6)Online publication date: 10-Jan-2021
https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCE50685.2021.9427774

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