MyDietCam: Development and usability study of a food recognition integrated dietary monitoring smartphone application.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Diet monitoring has been linked with improved eating habits and positive health outcomes such as prevention of obesity. However, this is often unsustainable as traditional methods place a high burden on both participants and researchers through pen and paper recordings and manual nutrient coding respectively. The digitisation of dietary monitoring has greatly reduced these barriers. This paper proposes a diet application with a novel food recognition feature with a usability study conducted in the real world.

Methods

This study describes the development of a mobile diet application (MyDietCam) targeted at healthy Malaysian adults. Focus group discussions (FGD) were carried out among dietitians and potential users to determine ideal features in a diet application.

SUBMITTER: Kong NA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9834938 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature