Investigating Preferred Food Description Practices in Digital Food Journaling

Lucas M Silva; Daniel A Epstein

doi:10.1145/3461778.3462145

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Investigating Preferred Food Description Practices in Digital Food Journaling

Conference proceeding

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Investigating Preferred Food Description Practices in Digital Food Journaling

Lucas M Silva and Daniel A Epstein

Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2021, pp.589-605

ACM Conferences

DIS '21: Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2021

06/28/2021

DOI: 10.1145/3461778.3462145

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Abstract

Journaling of consumed foods through digital devices is a popular self-tracking strategy for weight loss and eating mindfulness. Research has explored modalities, like photos and open-ended text and voice descriptions, to make journaling less burdensome and more descriptive than traditional barcode and database searches. However, less is known about how people prefer to journal foods when less constrained by limitations of databases, natural language processing, and image recognition. We deployed a food journal prototype supporting varied devices and input modalities, which 15 participants used to journal 1008 food logs over two weeks. Participants had diverse strategies for indicating what and how much they ate, varying from ambiguous foods to specifying varieties and using different measurements for clarifying amount. Some strategies were interpretable by natural language food identification and image classification services, while others point to open research questions. We finally discuss opportunities for accounting for variance in food journaling.

Human-centered computing

Human-centered computing -- Human computer interaction (HCI)

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Title: Subtitle: Investigating Preferred Food Description Practices in Digital Food Journaling
Creators: Lucas M Silva - University of California, Irvine
Daniel A Epstein - University of California, Irvine
Contributors: Wendy Ju (Editor) - Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Lora Oehlberg (Editor) - University of Calgary
Sean Follmer (Editor) - Stanford University
Sarah Fox (Editor) - Carnegie Mellon University
Stacey Kuznetsov (Editor) - Arizona State University
Resource Type: Conference proceeding
Publication Details: Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2021, pp.589-605
Conference: DIS '21: Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2021
Series: ACM Conferences
DOI: 10.1145/3461778.3462145
Publisher: ACM
Language: English
Date published: 06/28/2021
Academic Unit: Computer Science
Record Identifier: 9984696584602771

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