HyperFit: Hybrid media in personal nutrition and exercise management

Paula Järvinen, Timo H. Järvinen, Liisa Lähteenmäki, Caj Södergård

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    Abstract

    HyperFit is 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 counseling. It includes self evaluation tools for testing and goal definition, food and exercise diaries, analysis tools, and feedback and encouragement given by 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 for approximately 2,500 food products and categories, both product-specific and average. Hybrid media combining print and mobile technology are applied to improve the usability and arouse interest. The service is used both with a mobile phone and PC. A camera phone can be used to add food and exercise entries to the diaries by reading product barcodes. HyperFit has been tested with potential individual users, weight management groups and nutritionists’ counseling clients in several field trials. Participants of the trials have been content with the system. 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 commercialization of the service is on the way.
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationProceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Pervasive Computing for Healthcare
    Subtitle of host publication2008 PervasiveHealth
    Place of PublicationPiscataway, NJ, USA
    PublisherIEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
    Pages222 - 226
    ISBN (Print)978-963-9799-15-8
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2008
    MoE publication typeA4 Article in a conference publication
    Event2nd International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare, PervasiveHealth 2008 - Tampere, Finland
    Duration: 30 Jan 20081 Feb 2008

    Conference

    Conference2nd International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare, PervasiveHealth 2008
    Abbreviated titlePervasiveHealth 2008
    Country/TerritoryFinland
    CityTampere
    Period30/01/081/02/08

    Keywords

    • Pervasive healthcare
    • Nutritional information
    • Hybrid Media

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