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Using Low-Cost Sensing to Support Nutritional Awareness

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Nutrition has a big impact on health, including major diseases such as heart disease, osteoporosis, and cancer. This paper presents an application designed to help people keep track of the nutrional content of foods they have eaten. Our work uses shopping receipts to generate suggestions about healthier food items that could help to supplement missing nutrients. We present our system design: a capture and access application that, based on shopping receipt data, provides access to ambiguous suggestions for more nutritious purchases. We also report results from one formative user study suggesting that receipts may provide enough information to extend our work by also estimating what people are actually eating, as opposed to simply what they are purchasing.

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  1. Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, 94720-1770, USA

    Jennifer Mankoff, Gary Hsieh, Ho Chak Hung, Sharon Lee & Elizabeth Nitao

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington, 98195, Seattle, Washington, USA

    Gaetano Borriello

  2. Intel Research Seattle, 98105, Seattle, Washington, USA

    Gaetano Borriello

  3. Future Applications Lab, Viktoria Institute, Box 620, 40530, Göteborg, Sweden

    Lars Erik Holmquist

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Mankoff, J., Hsieh, G., Hung, H.C., Lee, S., Nitao, E. (2002). Using Low-Cost Sensing to Support Nutritional Awareness. In: Borriello, G., Holmquist, L.E. (eds) UbiComp 2002: Ubiquitous Computing. UbiComp 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2498. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45809-3_29

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