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Overweight and obesity are ubiquitous around the world, and to make matters worse, many fatal diseases are related to obesity. Consequently, an increasing effort have been made to help people lose weight. Due to the cost-effective, convenient and wide-reaching features of mobile applications, smart phone weight loss applications have gained great public attention. Such weight loss applications typically...
The potential of mobile technologies are being used increasingly has not been fully exploited in relation to health research. There are Application (app) stores have thousands of health-related apps in the market, but generally, what is available publicly has not been fully evaluated by experts. This paper presents a case study where Human-Computer Interaction techniques and agile methodologies were...
Health education for pregnant women is one of the aims chased by using mobile applications for health prevention and healthy lifestyle promotion. The literature claims the lack of mobile applications with evidence-based information and supported by health professionals. This paper deals with the design, the implementation, and the evaluation of a service for healthy women with a normal pregnancy aimed...
Context aware computing, an emerging form of ubiquitous computing, has enabled the way computers interact with humans. With the ability to sense and adapt to the physical environment, its use provides immense potential in improving one's own health. This paper highlights the design of a context aware mobile agent named, ‘Let's Exercise’, which is aimed at users suffering from both stress and obesity...
If temporal variation of a person's hunger degree could be estimated, it would be possible to adjust his/her eating habits and/or prevent obesity. It is well-known that there is a negative correlation between a hunger degree and a blood glucose level. However, it is hard to measure a person's blood glucose level anytime and anywhere, because it relies usually on an invasive method (e.g., blood sampling)...
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