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"Honey=sugar" means unhealthy: investigating how people apply knowledge to rate food's healthiness

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Enrico Costanza,

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UbiComp '12: Proceedings of the 2012 ACM Conference on Ubiquitous Computing

Pages 71 - 80

https://doi.org/10.1145/2370216.2370228

Published: 05 September 2012 Publication History

Abstract

While previous research studied the high level attributes people consider when they assess the healthiness of food they are familiar with, little work has looked at how people assess arbitrary, potentially unfamiliar, food to decide whether it is a healthy choice. Since there is a growing body of work in Ubicomp around health practices, including systems to support healthy eating, it is important to understand how people apply the knowledge they have to food decisions. In our studies we identified 8 attributes participants use for determining if they think a food is "healthy" or not. Based upon our analysis, we reflect on current system designs and propose four future design opportunities: capturing context of healthy eating, preparation and reflection on healthy eating understanding, sharing understanding and in situ information support.

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"Honey=sugar" means unhealthy: investigating how people apply knowledge to rate food's healthiness
1. Applied computing
  1. Life and medical sciences
    1. Consumer health
    2. Health informatics
2. Human-centered computing

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UbiComp '12: Proceedings of the 2012 ACM Conference on Ubiquitous Computing

September 2012

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ISBN:9781450312240

DOI:10.1145/2370216

General Chair:
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Carnegie Mellon University
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National Taiwan University, Taiwan
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