Review and experience on developing sarawak traditional food locator mobile apps

Abstract

Mobile apps development has become new trends to promote various services to the user. The development of Sarawak Traditional Food Locator mobile application intended to improve mobile seller socio-economy by provide marketing, advertising and point of sales for the local community. Apart from that it, boost tourism sector in Sarawak which focus on food based product. The mobile apps help to guide tourist to locate and find unique cuisine and trying local food delicacies when travelling to Sarawak.

Innovative Digital Technologies for Purchasing and Consumption in Urban and Regional Agro-Food Systems: A Systematic Review

“…When selecting only studies about Apps (25 papers out of 57, 44%), a slightly different geographical distribution emerged (Figure 2). Asia was dominating the literature, with 13 articles [29,36,51,[53][54][55][56][57]59,62,63,65,66], while Europe focused [29,35,36,38,48,49] and Oceania focused [29,36,76,77,79,81] followed with six studies each.…”

“…The sixth most frequent research study category s aim is the presentation of an App prototype [49,54,57,83]. The analysed prototypes were quite different from each other: Gilliand et al [81] designed an App to encourage healthy eating by reducing educational, behavioural and economic barriers to accessing healthy and local food, while "FoodieRoute", the App described by Fauzi et al [54], guides tourists to discover eating places in the region of Sarawak in Malaysia.…”

“…The sixth most frequent research study category s aim is the presentation of an App prototype [49,54,57,83]. The analysed prototypes were quite different from each other: Gilliand et al [81] designed an App to encourage healthy eating by reducing educational, behavioural and economic barriers to accessing healthy and local food, while "FoodieRoute", the App described by Fauzi et al [54], guides tourists to discover eating places in the region of Sarawak in Malaysia. Gupta et al [57] developed a mobile phone Application which allows farmers in India to sell their livestock more easily, while the FoodTrack study presented by Poelman et al [49] allowed the researchers to examine the participants food environment to assess their food choices and to examine the moderating role of individual and contextual determinants (such as mood, companion, time of the day) of food purchases and consumption.…”

“…In both cases, consumers were subject to offline interactions with producers and other veg box scheme members, as well as online interactions in the form of blogs, newsletter and producers stories [32,45,47]. [42,44,46,48,53,54] Research studies that focused on more than one section were counted more than once.…”

“…Tourism was the least researched category. Half of the articles in this field (three out of six) were App-related [48,53,54]. Yen and Zaaba [53] developed an Android App called "Malaycious" whose main function was to map local restaurants in Malaysia.…”