An Augmented Reality App to Learn to Interpret the Nutritional Information on Labels of Real Packaged Foods

[EN] Healthy eating habits involve controlling your diet. It is important to know how to interpret the nutritional information of the packaged foods that you consume. These packaged foods are usually processed and contain carbohydrates and fats. Monitoring carbohydrates intake is particularly import...

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Autores: Juan, M. Carmen|||0000-0002-8764-1470, García García, Inmaculada|||0000-0001-9344-023X, Mollá, Ramón|||0000-0003-0704-9336, Charco, Jorge L.
Formato: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2019
País:España
Recursos:Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV)
Repositorio:RiuNet. Repositorio Institucional de la Universitat Politécnica de Valéncia
Idioma:inglés
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Acesso em linha:https://riunet.upv.es/handle/10251/156952
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:Augmented reality
App
Mobile devices
Object recognition
Education
Nutrition
Carb choices
Healthy life habits
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spelling An Augmented Reality App to Learn to Interpret the Nutritional Information on Labels of Real Packaged FoodsJuan, M. Carmen|||0000-0002-8764-1470García García, Inmaculada|||0000-0001-9344-023XMollá, Ramón|||0000-0003-0704-9336Charco, Jorge L.Augmented realityAppMobile devicesObject recognitionEducationNutritionCarb choicesHealthy life habitsLENGUAJES Y SISTEMAS INFORMATICOS[EN] Healthy eating habits involve controlling your diet. It is important to know how to interpret the nutritional information of the packaged foods that you consume. These packaged foods are usually processed and contain carbohydrates and fats. Monitoring carbohydrates intake is particularly important for weight-loss diets and for some pathologies such as diabetes. In this paper, we present an augmented reality app for helping interpret the nutritional information about carbohydrates in real packaged foods with the shape of boxes or cans. The app tracks the full object and guides the user in finding the surface or area of the real package where the information about carbohydrates is located using augmented reality and helps the user to interpret this information. The portions of carbohydrates (also called carb choices or carb servings) that correspond to the visualized food are shown. We carried out a study to check the effectiveness of our app regarding learning outcomes, usability, and perceived satisfaction. A total of 40 people participated in the study (20 men and 20 women). The participants were between 14 and 55 years old. The results reported that their initial knowledge about carb choices was very low. This indicates that education about nutritional information in packaged foods is needed. An analysis of the pre-knowledge and post-knowledge questionnaires showed that the users had a statistically significant increase in knowledge about carb choices using our app. Gender and age did not influence the knowledge acquired. The participants were highly satisfied with our app. In conclusion, our app and similar apps could be used to effectively learn how to interpret the nutritional information on the labels of real packaged foods and thus help users acquire healthy life habits.Frontiers Media SADepartamento de Sistemas Informáticos y ComputaciónInstituto Universitario de Automática e Informática IndustrialEscuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería IndustrialEscuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería InformáticaInstituto Universitario Valenciano de Investigación en Inteligencia ArtificialRepositorio Institucional de la Universitat Politècnica de València Riunet20192019-06-20journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501VoRhttp://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a85info:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttps://riunet.upv.es/handle/10251/156952reponame:RiuNet. Repositorio Institucional de la Universitat Politécnica de Valénciainstname:Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV)Inglésengopen accesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2Reconocimiento (by)http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:riunet.upv.es:10251/1569522026-06-13T07:49:27Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv An Augmented Reality App to Learn to Interpret the Nutritional Information on Labels of Real Packaged Foods
title An Augmented Reality App to Learn to Interpret the Nutritional Information on Labels of Real Packaged Foods
spellingShingle An Augmented Reality App to Learn to Interpret the Nutritional Information on Labels of Real Packaged Foods
Juan, M. Carmen|||0000-0002-8764-1470
Augmented reality
App
Mobile devices
Object recognition
Education
Nutrition
Carb choices
Healthy life habits
LENGUAJES Y SISTEMAS INFORMATICOS
title_short An Augmented Reality App to Learn to Interpret the Nutritional Information on Labels of Real Packaged Foods
title_full An Augmented Reality App to Learn to Interpret the Nutritional Information on Labels of Real Packaged Foods
title_fullStr An Augmented Reality App to Learn to Interpret the Nutritional Information on Labels of Real Packaged Foods
title_full_unstemmed An Augmented Reality App to Learn to Interpret the Nutritional Information on Labels of Real Packaged Foods
title_sort An Augmented Reality App to Learn to Interpret the Nutritional Information on Labels of Real Packaged Foods
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Juan, M. Carmen|||0000-0002-8764-1470
García García, Inmaculada|||0000-0001-9344-023X
Mollá, Ramón|||0000-0003-0704-9336
Charco, Jorge L.
author Juan, M. Carmen|||0000-0002-8764-1470
author_facet Juan, M. Carmen|||0000-0002-8764-1470
García García, Inmaculada|||0000-0001-9344-023X
Mollá, Ramón|||0000-0003-0704-9336
Charco, Jorge L.
author_role author
author2 García García, Inmaculada|||0000-0001-9344-023X
Mollá, Ramón|||0000-0003-0704-9336
Charco, Jorge L.
author2_role author
author
author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Departamento de Sistemas Informáticos y Computación
Instituto Universitario de Automática e Informática Industrial
Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería Industrial
Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería Informática
Instituto Universitario Valenciano de Investigación en Inteligencia Artificial
Repositorio Institucional de la Universitat Politècnica de València Riunet
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Augmented reality
App
Mobile devices
Object recognition
Education
Nutrition
Carb choices
Healthy life habits
LENGUAJES Y SISTEMAS INFORMATICOS
topic Augmented reality
App
Mobile devices
Object recognition
Education
Nutrition
Carb choices
Healthy life habits
LENGUAJES Y SISTEMAS INFORMATICOS
description [EN] Healthy eating habits involve controlling your diet. It is important to know how to interpret the nutritional information of the packaged foods that you consume. These packaged foods are usually processed and contain carbohydrates and fats. Monitoring carbohydrates intake is particularly important for weight-loss diets and for some pathologies such as diabetes. In this paper, we present an augmented reality app for helping interpret the nutritional information about carbohydrates in real packaged foods with the shape of boxes or cans. The app tracks the full object and guides the user in finding the surface or area of the real package where the information about carbohydrates is located using augmented reality and helps the user to interpret this information. The portions of carbohydrates (also called carb choices or carb servings) that correspond to the visualized food are shown. We carried out a study to check the effectiveness of our app regarding learning outcomes, usability, and perceived satisfaction. A total of 40 people participated in the study (20 men and 20 women). The participants were between 14 and 55 years old. The results reported that their initial knowledge about carb choices was very low. This indicates that education about nutritional information in packaged foods is needed. An analysis of the pre-knowledge and post-knowledge questionnaires showed that the users had a statistically significant increase in knowledge about carb choices using our app. Gender and age did not influence the knowledge acquired. The participants were highly satisfied with our app. In conclusion, our app and similar apps could be used to effectively learn how to interpret the nutritional information on the labels of real packaged foods and thus help users acquire healthy life habits.
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