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E-Reminder: A Mindfulness-Based Interactive Eating Reminder Device to Improve Emotional Eating

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Distributed, Ambient and Pervasive Interactions (HCII 2023)

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Obesity has become a health problem that plagues people worldwide, and emotional eating is a significant cause of obesity. It is essential to reduce the frequency of emotional eating. We innovatively put forward E-Reminder: an interactive mindfulness-based eating reminder system. Based on mindful eating, E-Reminder encourages users to reduce the frequency of emotional eating and establish normal eating behavior by reminding them to focus on their feelings and the characteristics of the food itself. E-Reminder includes a wearable mindfulness interactive device and a mobile application. The system can be used during eating to improve emotional eating problems and establish normal eating behavior. The results of user experiments show that E-Reminder can effectively improve users' emotional eating in the short term and implant weight loss ideas in them.

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This research was funded by the Engineering Research Center of Computer Aided Product Innovation Design, Ministry of Education, National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 52075478), and National Social Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 21AZD056).

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  1. Polytechnic Institute, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

    Xiaoqian Xie, Liyi Zhang & Yumeng Cao

  2. Social Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK

    Sining Xue

  3. Ningbo Research Institute, Zhejiang University, Ningbo, China

    Mengru Xue & Yuqi Hu

  4. College of Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

    Cheng Yao

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Xie, X. et al. (2023). E-Reminder: A Mindfulness-Based Interactive Eating Reminder Device to Improve Emotional Eating. In: Streitz, N.A., Konomi, S. (eds) Distributed, Ambient and Pervasive Interactions. HCII 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14037. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-34609-5_33

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