TY - BOOK
T1 - Hybrid Media in Personal Management of Nutrition and Exercise
T2 - Report on the HyperFit Project
A2 - Järvinen, Paula
N1 - Project contributors removed from author list (not authors).
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - The purpose of the HyperFit project was to develop
communicational tools for personal nutrition and exercise
management.
The main result of the HyperFit project is the HyperFit
application, an Internet service for personal management
of nutrition and exercise. It provides tools for
promoting healthy diet and physical activity. The
principle of the service is to mimic the process of
personal nutrition counselling. It includes
self-evaluation tools for assessing eating and exercise
habits and for defining personally set goals, food and
exercise diaries, and analysis tools. The service also
gives feedback and encouragement from a virtual trainer.
Recommendations by the Finnish National Nutrition Council
are used as the nutritional basis for the service.
HyperFit uses a food database that contains the
nutritional information on approximately 2,500 foods,
either product-specific or average. The products that are
not included in the database are replaced with the
average foods. However, HyperFit is able to use a more
comprehensive product specific food database.
Hybrid media and mobile technology are applied to improve
the usability and interest to use the system, especially
among younger and technically-oriented people. The
service can be used both with a mobile phone and a PC. A
camera phone can be used to add food and exercise entries
to the diaries by reading product barcodes. Exercise data
can be inserted directly from a heart rate monitor to the
system.
The usability and user experiences of the HyperFit
service have been tested throughout the development
process. Furthermore, HyperFit has been tested with
potential end users, weight management groups and
professional nutritionists as part of their weight
management efforts or professional counselling in several
field trials. The participants in the trials have been
content with the system and, on the whole, comments have
been positive. The trials suggest that a HyperFit type of
service can be used to promote independent weight
management and the use of hybrid media gives extra value
to the service.
A patent application has been submitted for the system
and the commercialisation of the product is on the way.
AB - The purpose of the HyperFit project was to develop
communicational tools for personal nutrition and exercise
management.
The main result of the HyperFit project is the HyperFit
application, an Internet service for personal management
of nutrition and exercise. It provides tools for
promoting healthy diet and physical activity. The
principle of the service is to mimic the process of
personal nutrition counselling. It includes
self-evaluation tools for assessing eating and exercise
habits and for defining personally set goals, food and
exercise diaries, and analysis tools. The service also
gives feedback and encouragement from a virtual trainer.
Recommendations by the Finnish National Nutrition Council
are used as the nutritional basis for the service.
HyperFit uses a food database that contains the
nutritional information on approximately 2,500 foods,
either product-specific or average. The products that are
not included in the database are replaced with the
average foods. However, HyperFit is able to use a more
comprehensive product specific food database.
Hybrid media and mobile technology are applied to improve
the usability and interest to use the system, especially
among younger and technically-oriented people. The
service can be used both with a mobile phone and a PC. A
camera phone can be used to add food and exercise entries
to the diaries by reading product barcodes. Exercise data
can be inserted directly from a heart rate monitor to the
system.
The usability and user experiences of the HyperFit
service have been tested throughout the development
process. Furthermore, HyperFit has been tested with
potential end users, weight management groups and
professional nutritionists as part of their weight
management efforts or professional counselling in several
field trials. The participants in the trials have been
content with the system and, on the whole, comments have
been positive. The trials suggest that a HyperFit type of
service can be used to promote independent weight
management and the use of hybrid media gives extra value
to the service.
A patent application has been submitted for the system
and the commercialisation of the product is on the way.
KW - pervasive healthcare
KW - nutritional information
KW - hybrid media
M3 - Report
SN - 978-951-38-7047-8
T3 - VTT Publications
BT - Hybrid Media in Personal Management of Nutrition and Exercise
PB - VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland
CY - Espoo
ER -