Healthy shopping: A longitudinal study of a mobile app to encourage a balanced diet

Jon Bird; Daniel Harrison; Daniel Fozzati; Paul Marshall

doi:10.1145/2494091.2496012

Healthy shopping: A longitudinal study of a mobile app to encourage a balanced diet

Jon Bird, Daniel Harrison, Daniel Fozzati, Paul Marshall

Department of Computer Science

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Abstract

An imbalanced diet is the primary cause of the majority of non-communicable diseases. In particular, obesity rates are increasing in both the developed and developing world and this disease has been described as a pandemic by the World Health Organization. Many governments provide dietary guidelines, for example, recommended weekly amounts of different food types, but the increasing incidence of obesity shows that these campaigns have not been successful. We developed a mobile app that shows supermarket shoppers the nutritional balance of their shopping trolley. A twomonth study demonstrated that the app led to significant changes in participants' shopping habits and an improvement the nutritional balance of their diets.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	UbiComp 2013 Adjunct - Adjunct Publication of the 2013 ACM Conference on Ubiquitous Computing
Pages	1047-1054
Number of pages	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2494091.2496012
Publication status	Published - 15 Oct 2013
Event	2013 ACM Conference on Ubiquitous Computing, UbiComp 2013 - Zurich, Switzerland Duration: 8 Sept 2013 → 12 Sept 2013

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Conference	2013 ACM Conference on Ubiquitous Computing, UbiComp 2013
Country/Territory	Switzerland
City	Zurich
Period	8/09/13 → 12/09/13

Research Groups and Themes

Bristol Interaction Group

Keywords

Balanced in diet
Behaviour change
Mobile technology
Supermarket shopping

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

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Bird, J, Harrison, D, Fozzati, D & Marshall, P 2013, Healthy shopping: A longitudinal study of a mobile app to encourage a balanced diet. in UbiComp 2013 Adjunct - Adjunct Publication of the 2013 ACM Conference on Ubiquitous Computing. pp. 1047-1054, 2013 ACM Conference on Ubiquitous Computing, UbiComp 2013, Zurich, Switzerland, 8/09/13. https://doi.org/10.1145/2494091.2496012

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Healthy shopping: A longitudinal study of a mobile app to encourage a balanced diet

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