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Maintaining a healthy lifestyle has become increasingly challenging in today's sedentary society marked by poor eating habits. To address this issue, both national and international organisations have made numerous efforts to promote…

Worldwide, in 2014, more than 1.9 billion adults, 18 years and older, were overweight. Of these, over 600 million were obese. Accurately documenting dietary caloric intake is crucial to manage weight loss, but also presents challenges…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-06-21 Chang Liu , Yu Cao , Yan Luo , Guanling Chen , Vinod Vokkarane , Yunsheng Ma

On mobile phones, users and developers use apps official marketplaces serving as repositories of apps. The Google Play Store and Apple Store are the official marketplaces of Android and Apple products which offer more than a million apps.…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Rubén Saborido , Foutse Khomh , Abram Hindle , Enrique Alba

Food is very essential for human life and it is fundamental to the human experience. Food-related study may support multifarious applications and services, such as guiding the human behavior, improving the human health and understanding the…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-07-17 Weiqing Min , Shuqiang Jiang , Linhu Liu , Yong Rui , Ramesh Jain

Dietary studies showed that dietary-related problem such as obesity is associated with other chronic diseases like hypertension, irregular blood sugar levels, and increased risk of heart attacks. The primary cause of these problems is poor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Ghalib Tahir , Chu Kiong Loo

The recommendation of food items is important for many reasons. Attaining cooking inspiration via digital sources is becoming evermore popular; as are systems, which recommend other types of food, such as meals in restaurants or products in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-11-13 Christoph Trattner , David Elsweiler

While smart mobile health apps that adapt to users' progressive individual needs are proliferating, many of them struggle to fulfill their promises due to an inferior user experience. Understanding the concerns of real-world users related…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Banafsheh Mohajeri , Jinghui Cheng

The complex nature of intelligent systems motivates work on supporting users during interaction, for example through explanations. However, as of yet, there is little empirical evidence in regard to specific problems users face when…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-02-05 Malin Eiband , Sarah Theres Völkel , Daniel Buschek , Sophia Cook , Heinrich Hussmann

Today, many public or private institutions provide professional food service for personnels working in their own organizations. Regarding the planning of the said service, there are some obstacles due to the fact that the number of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-13 M. Hanefi Calp

Regular nutrient intake monitoring in hospitalised patients plays a critical role in reducing the risk of disease-related malnutrition (DRM). Although several methods to estimate nutrient intake have been developed, there is still a clear…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-13 Ya Lu , Thomai Stathopoulou , Maria F. Vasiloglou , Stergios Christodoulidis , Beat Blum , Thomas Walser , Vinzenz Meier , Zeno Stanga , Stavroula G. Mougiakakou

Diet plays a crucial role in managing chronic conditions and overall well-being. As people become more selective about their food choices, finding recipes that meet dietary needs is important. Ingredient substitution is key to adapting…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Hyunwook Kim , Revathy Venkataramanan , Amit Sheth

Nowadays millions of images are shared on social media and web platforms. In particular, many of them are food images taken from a smartphone over time, providing information related to the individual's diet. On the other hand, eating…

While the task of automatically detecting eating events has been examined in prior work using various wearable devices, the use of smartphones as standalone devices to infer eating events remains an open issue. This paper proposes a…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Wageesha Bangamuarachchi , Anju Chamantha , Lakmal Meegahapola , Salvador Ruiz-Correa , Indika Perera , Daniel Gatica-Perez

There are around a hundred installed apps on an average smartphone. The high number of apps and the limited number of app icons that can be displayed on the device's screen requires a new paradigm to address their visibility to the user. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-01-26 Joseph Keshet , Adam Kariv , Arnon Dagan , Dvir Volk , Joey Simhon

Accurate assessment of dietary intake requires improved tools to overcome limitations of current methods including user burden and measurement error. Emerging technologies such as image-based approaches using advanced machine learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Zeman Shao , Yue Han , Jiangpeng He , Runyu Mao , Janine Wright , Deborah Kerr , Carol Boushey , Fengqing Zhu

What we eat is one of the most frequent and important health decisions we make in daily life, yet it remains notoriously difficult to capture and understand. Effective food journaling is thus a grand challenge in personal health…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2017-02-24 Shubham Goyal , Qi Liu , Khairina Tajul-Arifin , Waqas Awan , Bimlesh Wadhwa , Zhenguang Liu

Food journaling is an effective method to help people identify their eating patterns and encourage healthy eating habits as it requires self-reflection on eating behaviors. Current tools have predominately focused on tracking food intake,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-02-17 Yixuan Zhang , Andrea G. Parker

. This paper explores consumer behavior towards food delivery apps, focusing on attributes like restaurant variety, food packaging quality, and application design and user interface. The study reveals that a diverse range of restaurants…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-01-29 Sarvesh Jadhav , Ray Titus , Tina Babu , R. Chinnaiyan

Mobile app stores are the key distributors of mobile applications. They regularly apply vetting processes to the deployed apps. Yet, some of these vetting processes might be inadequate or applied late. The late removal of applications might…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-05 Fadi Mohsen , Dimka Karastoyanova , George Azzopardi

Growing awareness of wellness has prompted people to consider whether their dietary patterns align with their health and fitness goals. In response, researchers have introduced various wearable dietary monitoring systems and dietary…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Zhihan Jiang , Running Zhao , Lin Lin , Yue Yu , Handi Chen , Xinchen Zhang , Xuhai Xu , Yifang Wang , Xiaojuan Ma , Edith C. H. Ngai