Supporting visual assessment of food and nutrient intake in a clinical care setting

Comber, Rob; Weeden, Jack; Hoare, Jennifer; Lindsay, Stephen; Teal, Gemma; Macdonald, Alastair; Methven, Lisa; Moynihan, Paula; Olivier, Patrick

Supporting visual assessment of food and nutrient intake in a clinical care setting

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Comber, Rob, Weeden, Jack, Hoare, Jennifer, Lindsay, Stephen, Teal, Gemma, Macdonald, Alastair, Methven, Lisa, Moynihan, Paula and Olivier, Patrick (2012) Supporting visual assessment of food and nutrient intake in a clinical care setting. In: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 919-922. ISBN 978-1-4503-1015-4
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Comber, Rob, Weeden, Jack, Hoare, Jennifer, Lindsay, Stephen, Teal, Gemma, Macdonald, Alastair, Methven, Lisa, Moynihan, Paula and Olivier, Patrick

Abstract:

Monitoring nutritional intake is an important aspect of the care of older people, particularly for those at risk of malnutrition. Current practice for monitoring food intake relies on hand written food charts that have several inadequacies. We describe the design and validation of a tool for computer-assisted visual assessment of patient food and nutrient intake. To estimate food consumption, the application compares the pixels the user rubbed out against predefined graphical masks. Weight of food consumed is calculated as a percentage of pixels rubbed out against pixels in the mask. Results suggest that the application may be a useful tool for the conservative assessment of nutritional intake in hospitals.

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http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=2207676.2208534

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I am the designer of the assessment tool described in the paper.

Uncontrolled Keywords:

Nutrition; dietary assessment; portion estimation;

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School of Design
School of Innovation and Technology

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May 2012