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Development of Mobile-Accessible Nutritional System to Improve Healthy Food Choices
Vladislav Vintsarevich, Gitesh Raikundalia, Michael Mathai, Andrew McAinch, Carla Battaglia and Steven Pereira
Corresponding Author: Gitesh Raikundalia
Submitted: 2011 April, 20
Accepted: 2011 July, 18
Published: 2011 September, 20 |
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The aim of the authors was to develop a Web-based mobile system providing useful nutritional
advice to consumers. This system encourages healthier food habits for sufferers of hypertension or diabetes.
In the modern day society, the issues of globalisation, consumers’ choice and other recently introduced
phenomena such as the Internet and the mobile phone are becoming more prominent. Making a decision to buy
a product, in the present, can be rather a challenge for many consumers. This can mean that consumers eat
foods such as breads, breakfast cereals and biscuit products that they know little about. In this paper, the authors
developed software aimed at helping hypertensive and diabetic patients to improve their overall wellbeing. The
health of the sufferers of these ailments can usually be improved by healthy diets. After the development of the
system, a usability experiment involving interviews with the participants was conducted. Based on the analysis
of the feedback a number of relevant findings arose, such as some participants suggested that the system was
useful for monitoring their diets. However, few participants were prepared to change their shopping behaviours
due to some issues like lack of consumer products in the nutritional database, which need to be addressed in
the future work on the system.
Key words: Diabetes, hypertension, mobile access, nutritional database, , ,
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Vladislav Vintsarevich, Gitesh Raikundalia, Michael Mathai, Andrew McAinch, Carla Battaglia and Steven Pereira, . Development of Mobile-Accessible Nutritional System to Improve Healthy Food Choices. Research Journal of Applied Sciences, Engineering and Technology, (09): 1034-1047.
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