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Dan R.D.

Crowdsourcing nutrition in a snap - Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences ... - 0 views

  • If keeping a food diary seems like too much effort, despair not: computer scientists at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have devised a tool that lets you snap a photo of your meal and let the crowd do the rest.
  • PlateMate's calorie estimates have proved, in tests, to be just as accurate as those of trained nutritionists, and more accurate than the user's own logs. The research was presented at the 24th ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, a leading conference on human-computer interaction.
  • “We can take things that used to require experts and do them with crowds,” says Jon Noronha ’11, who co-developed PlateMate as an undergraduate at Harvard and now works at Microsoft. "Estimating the nutritional value of a meal is a fairly complex task, from a computational standpoint, but with a structured workflow and some cultural awareness, we've expanded what crowdsourcing can achieve."
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  • "Nutrition is such a pervasive issue in our society, from counting calories at the dinner table to burning them on the treadmill," says Hysen, who now works at Google. “People worry about whether they're doing the right thing. It seemed like a really good opportunity for crowdsourcing to make a difference.”
Dan R.D.

Edible RFID tags track your food from beginning to end (Video) [03Jun11] - 0 views

  • Keeping track of everything we eat would be a great idea, and I'm sure we'd learn all kinds of things we don't really want to know about our diet and overall health. Until now it's been a major hassle to do this, but tiny digestible RFID tags could automate the entire process for every si
  • Keeping track of everything we eat would be a great idea, and I'm sure we'd learn all kinds of things we don't really want to know about our diet and overall health. Until now it's been a major hassle to do this, but tiny digestible RFID tags could automate the entire process for every single piece of food that we consume.
  • NutriSmart is a concept for a food tracking system that uses RFID tags embedded in food along with a special plate that scans everything you eat, for the purposes of tracking nutrition and food allergies as well as to provide a little extra information on just what exactly it is that you're scarfing down:
Dan R.D.

Million Moms Challenge Launches Educational Alternative to Farmville [22Sep11] - 0 views

  • Wednesday at the Social Good Summit, ABC News correspondent Juju Chang announced a new Facebook game aimed at educating people about maternal health.
  • The game, which is a piece of the larger Million Moms Challenge initiative launched earlier this week by ABC News and the UN Foundation, is called 1000 Days and guides players through a series of educational mini games that teach about things such as proper diet, breast feeding and government regulations.
  • users are presented with opportunities to connect with outside organizations in the maternal health space for additional information.
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  • According to Chang, better nutrition in developing nations can boost economic productivity by 3%. Beyond the Facebook game, the Million Moms Challenge brings together hundreds of so-called “mommy bloggers” and connects them with NGOs working on improving maternal health to help spread awareness and raise money for the issue.
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