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“Obesity” is the Civilized disease of many developed countries. Many people attempt to control daily diet and participate in related activities of health promotion in order to manage their weight, to improve body shape, or maintain self-health. However, there are lot of people fail to perform the related activities of health promotion continuously because of the lack of motivation. The purpose of...
Energy balance is one component of weight management, but passive objective measures of caloric intake are non-existent. Given the recent success of actigraphy as a passive objective measure of the physical activity construct that relieves participants of the burden of biased self-report, computer scientists and engineers are aiming to find a passive objective measure of caloric intake. Passive sensing...
Obesity increases the chances of various diseases, particularly heart disease, diabetes type 2, obstructive sleep apnea, certain cancers, osteoarthritis and asthma. Obesity is often caused by a combination of excessive food energy intake, lack of physical activity, and genetic susceptibility, although a few cases are caused primarily by genes, endocrine disorders, medications or psychiatric illness...
With lifestyle-related conditions such as obesity amongst adolescents on the rise across the developed world, a pressing need exists for interventions which tackle the many factors underlying early-stage lifestyle formation. As a medium, digital games have the potential to integrate well with existing lifestyle patterns in adolescents, whilst engaging them and facilitating such lifestyle changes....
We present the results of the third phase in a three part study developing an application to reduce obesity levels in adolescents with a mobile fitness application that encourages youth to engage in fitness activity by providing social networking tools to facilitate motivation. In the first phase, we studied effecting positive attitudinal changes towards fitness. The second phase studied physical...
With the rising number of obesity at the world level, several researches are carried out for the purpose to identify the other causes and alternative treatment of this disease. This paper relates to the process of human mastication levels of obesity, based on the literature that discusses this relationship. In it, we propose a model of dynamic control of the human masticatory process applied to an...
The treatment of eating disorders is now part of the priority actions of the public health policy. For several years, nutritionists have been using tools relying on new digital technologies, able to provide new diagnostic elements. In this paper, we propose a complete methodology to acquire, analyse morphological data and establish typologies with low cost consumer electronics devices. We use a Microsoft...
We present the results of the second phase of a multiphase study into the feasibility of combating growing adolescent obesity rates with a fitness game deployed on mobile devices. The fitness application includes tracking software to measure and count exercises performed and socialization features to compete and collaborate with friends. In the first phase of our study we tested producing positive...
Conceptual modelling, one of the first stages in a simulation study, is about understanding the situation under study and deciding what and how to model. We argue that stakeholder involvement as part of conceptual modelling could lead to a more successful simulation study with better prospects for implementation. Our work is mainly applied in health care studies, which are characterized by many stakeholders...
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