Year: 2016
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: Many people struggle with efforts to make healthy behavior changes, such as healthy eating. Several existing approaches promote healthy eating, but present high barriers and yield limited engagement. As a lightweight alternative approach to promoting mindful eating, we introduce and examine crumbs: daily food challenges completed by consuming one food that meets the challenge. We examine crumbs through developing and deploying the iPhone application Food4Thought. In a 3 week field study with 61 participants, crumbs supported engagement and mindfulness while offering opportunities to learn about food. Our 2x2 study compared nutrition versus non-nutrition crumbs coupled with social versus non-social features. Nutrition crumbs often felt more purposeful to participants, but non-nutrition crumbs increased mindfulness more than nutrition crumbs. Social features helped sustain engagement and were important for engagement with non-nutrition crumbs. Social features also enabled learning about the variety of foods other people use to meet a challenge.
Institution: University of Washington
Language: English
Subfield: Human-Computer Interaction
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
Awards: SHARING PATIENT LIFELOG DATA WITH THE PRIMARY CARE TEAM FOR TWO PATIENT POPULATIONS: PREVENTATIVE CARE & CHRONIC DISEASE MANAGEMENT, SCH: INT: Supporting Healthy Sleep Behaviors through Ubiquitous Computing, G6172297944, CDI - Type II: Transforming Community-Based Elder Care through Heterogeneous Activity Sensing Analytics
OpenAlex ID: W2398727443