SnackBreaker

Park, Joongsin; Koo, Bon-chang; Cho, Jun-Dong; Bae, Byung-Chull

doi:10.1145/2793107.2810331

Cited by 18 publications

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“…Much of this work has been motivated by the need to improve the health and well-being of individuals -and many have explored different technologies to help consumers overcome the known barriers to healthy eating patterns mentioned in our review above. For instance, researchers have explored persuasive games to promote healthy food choices (e.g., [54,81,83]), and scanning devices to help people quickly identify suitable items for a specific diet [74]. Similarly, researchers have used augmented reality (AR) to help shoppers find healthy items [2], interactive displays to calculate serving sizes and compare products [11], and mobile apps that help shoppers to visualize and interpret the nutritional balance of their shopping cart [13,16].…”

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Design and Evaluation of Technologies for Informed Food Choices

Bomfim

Wong

Liang

et al. 2023

ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact.

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Technology increasingly mediates our everyday interactions with food, ranging from its production and handling to the experience of preparing and eating it with friends and family. However, it is unclear whether these technologies support decisions conducive to a healthy diet. In this work, we devised the first heuristics for evaluating a technology’s support for food literacy: the interconnected combination of awareness, knowledge, and skills to empower individuals to make informed food choices. We applied an iterative, expert-driven process to derive and refine our heuristics, starting with an established food literacy framework. We then conducted evaluations with Nutrition and HCI experts to show how the heuristics support summative and formative design and evaluations of food-related technologies. We show that the heuristics are valuable design tools, and that they help participants reflect on food literacy challenges. We also discuss tensions between nutrition and HCI best practices.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Design and Evaluation of Technologies for Informed Food Choices

Bomfim

Wong

Liang

et al. 2023

ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact.

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“…In recent years serious games and toys developed within HCI have attempted to increase children's awareness of nutrition [24,39,49] and dental health [31,50] to facilitate behaviour change [16]. Mueller, for example, developed a smartphone app where players scan product barcodes to unlock games with lessons about sugar while displaying details about a scanned product's sugar content [35].…”

Section: Digital Pets For Healthy Habit Formation 31 Serious Games Amentioning

confidence: 99%

The Sugargotchi

Gray

Metcalfe

Cater

et al. 2020

Extended Abstracts of the 2020 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play

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The excessive consumption of free sugars-sugar added to food, drinks and existing in honey, syrup and fruit juice-are endemic to the diets of Western children and a leading factor in dental disease. Recent public health interventions and legislation have aimed to safeguard consumer health. However, children and their parents continue to face challenges in understanding the implications of product sugar content for their long-term dental health when weighed against contradictory nutritional benefits and child-friendly marketing. Building upon previous HCI research on serious play for nutritional awareness and leveraging the power of digital pets for enacting behaviour change, we introduce 'the Sugargotchi'-an embodied digital companion to raise children's awareness of their dental health and the adverse impacts of free sugars. This paper describes the rationale for the Sugargotchi's development, an overview of our initial prototype, and highlights the key design challenges it faces for household and clinical adoption.

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On the comprehension of application programming interface usability in game engines

Venigalla

Chimalakonda

2021

Softw Pract Exp

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Extensive development of games for various purposes including education and entertainment has resulted in increased development of game engines. Game engines are being used on a large scale as they support and simplify game development to a greater extent. Game developers using game engines are often compelled to use various application programming interfaces (APIs) of game engines in the process of game development. Thus, both quality and ease of development of games are greatly influenced by APIs defined in game engines. Hence, understanding API usability in game engines could greatly help in choosing better game engines among the ones that are available for game development and also could help developers in designing better game engines. In this article, we thus aim to evaluate API usability of 95 publicly available game engine repositories on GitHub, written primarily in C++ programming language. We test API usability of these game engines against the eight structural API usability metrics—AMNOI, AMNCI, AMGI, APXI, APLCI, AESI, ATSI, and ADI. We see this research as a first step toward the direction of improving usability of APIs in game engines. We present the results of the study, which indicate that about 25% of the game engines considered have minimal API usability, with respect to the considered metrics. It was observed that none of the considered repositories have ideal (all metric scores equal to 1) API usability, indicating the need for developers to consider API usability metrics while designing game engines.

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SnackBreaker

Cited by 18 publications

References 4 publications

Design and Evaluation of Technologies for Informed Food Choices

Design and Evaluation of Technologies for Informed Food Choices

The Sugargotchi

On the comprehension of application programming interface usability in game engines

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