Towards Finding Windows of Opportunity for Ubiquitous Healthy Eating Interventions

Terzimehić, Nađa; Schneegass, Christina; Hußmann, Heinrich

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-78978-1_8

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“…These interventions also fall short because they concentrate on logging meals after consumption instead of promoting healthier food choices through planning days in advance [57]. Choices made at the grocery store have a direct and crucial impact on those made at home-you cannot eat those potato chips if they never come home from the store.…”

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“…Indeed, ev-idence on diet and health increasingly points to the importance of overall diet quality [21]; illustrated by recent food-based guidelines such as Canada's Food Guide [9]. Second, these mobile apps are designed to track consumed foods, instead of supporting planning and/or selecting foods at the grocery store [4], and thus fail to prevent impulse purchases [57]. Finally, approximately half the people who start using selftracking apps stop using them because of loss of interest and a high data-entry burden [32].…”

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confidence: 99%

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Food Literacy while Shopping: Motivating Informed Food Purchasing Behaviour with a Situated Gameful App

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Kirkpatrick

Nacke

et al. 2020

Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Establishing healthy eating patterns early in life is critical and has implications for lifelong health. Situated interventions are a promising approach to improve eating patterns. However, HCI research has emphasized calorie control and weight loss, potentially leading consumers to prioritize caloric intake over healthy eating patterns. To support healthy eating more holistically, we designed a gameful app called Pirate Bri's Grocery Adventure (PBGA) that seeks to improve food literacy-meaning the interconnected combination of foodrelated knowledge, skills, and behaviours that empower an individual to make informed food choices-through a situated approach to grocery shopping. Findings from our three-week field study revealed that PBGA was effective for improving players' nutrition knowledge and motivation for healthier food choices and reducing their impulse purchases. Our findings highlight that nutrition apps should promote planning and shopping based on balance, variety, and moderation.

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confidence: 99%