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A healthy and balanced diet is of paramount importance to the physical and psychological well-being of an individual, since unhealthy dietary choices have been linked with the occurrence of non-communicable diseases. Recent technological advances has ...

Consuming adequate daily meal portions is crucial to maintain appropriate nutrition and keep healthy. Such optimal consumption varies depending on an individualś gender, age, physical condition, and activity. However, it might be difficult for everyone ...

Unhealthy diet is a top risk factor causing obesity and numerous chronic diseases. To help the public adopt healthy diet, nutrition scientists need user-friendly tools to conduct Dietary Assessment (DA). In recent years, new DA tools have been developed ...

The emerging modern medical technology has provided treatment for a variety of major human diseases (including cancer, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, diabetes, etc.). However, the long-term control of these chronic diseases remains a ...

This paper revisits concepts of nudge in the context of helping consumers to make healthier food choices. We introduce a novel form of social influence nudge not yet investigated by HCI scholars, the out-group social comparison, and test whether this ...

This exploratory research examines how we might nudge consumers towards making healthier food choices in online grocery shopping or other digitally mediated food consumption contexts. Our pilot study investigated how different forms of social comparisons ...

The growing amount of data collected by quantified self tools and social media hold great potential for applications in personalized medicine. Whereas the first includes health-related physiological signals, the latter provides insights into a user's ...

In this study, we present a system which can provide users with appropriate eating speed guidance. The purpose of our study is to improve user's eating habit by delivering real-time feedback while eating. We conducted a pilot study with our proposed ...

The SAL (simple situated ambient logger) is an infrastructure and interface designed to enable people to do logging. They can use it to configure what they want to log each day and they are able to place their logger in a convenient location that works ...

Logging dietary intake has been shown to be of benefit to individuals and health researchers, but a practical and objective system for food logging remains elusive despite decades of research. My thesis is that emerging wearable devices such as life-...

The problems of obesity and overweight are commonly cited as the motivation behind recent efforts to develop technology that promotes physical activity. Prompted by the social nature of many of the emerging applications, this paper presents our ...

In recent years health care professionals have been investigating the use of ICT technologies in order to influence the general public to change their attitude and behaviour toward a healthier lifestyle. We present Mobile Mentor, a platform aimed at ...

Using an iterative design process, we designed and evaluated a system for college students to encourage the development and maintenance of healthy diet and exercise habits. The system has three components: a camera phone application to support ...

Glucose-insulin interaction in an insulin-dependent diabetic patient has been simulated using an overall and a detailed model based on pharmacokinetic diagrams of insulin and glucose. Both models are capable of predicting the blood glucose and insulin ...

The medical care system is not very effective in modifying health behavior of individuals, in particular, ensuring patient compliance with medication regimens, healthy diets, regular physical activity, and regular health screening, and in the avoidance ...

Diet coaching is a behaviour change task which requires lots of interaction with patients. E-health apps gathered lots of interest in research and, recently, chatbots have been leveraged to address this task, with a focus on persuasion to motivate ...

To monitor public opinions on diet, large survey data is commonly used though costly and time consuming. Social media has become a mainstream channel of communication and has drastically grown in popularity, connecting users to a ready stream of ...

Recent research has identified a few design flaws in popular mobile health (mHealth) applications for promoting healthy eating lifestyle, such as mobile food journals. These include tediousness of manual food logging, inadequate food database coverage, ...

Social media based digital epidemiology has the potential to support faster response and deeper understanding of public health related threats. This study proposes a new framework to analyze unstructured health related textual data via Twitter ...

The general recommendations for addressing non-communicable diseases, which are responsible for two thirds of deaths globally, are mainly related to lifestyle changes, such as diet and physical activity. Challenges with encouraging healthy diets include ...