mHealth Mobile Application for Healthy Eating in Working Context

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EAT@WORK guides users to have healthy eating routines when they work in the office or work from home (due to COVID-19). Differing from other apps that only focus on tracking daily intake, EAT@WORK additionally involves reliable knowledge, social support, and a physical health program to help users gain healthy eating patterns during working hours. EAT@WORK is not a cold digital tool for food tracking but a user-friendly approach that helps users manage their eating activities during working hours in an efficient, easy, and unobtrusive way.

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随着生活水平的提高，不健康饮食已成为危害人类健康的主要因素之一。成年人每天花费约55%到70%的清醒时间忙于工作，因此对办公人群的饮食行为的劝导逐渐成为欧洲设计领域尤其荷兰四个理工大学合作项目的研究重点。因此，利用智能交互工具引导和干预办公人群的健康饮食行为显示出了更广泛的设计潜力和可能性。

通过分析86名办公人员的问卷调查结果和12名办公人员的访谈内容，我们总结出四个能有助实现健康饮食行为的方式：1）较权威的平台向使用者提供具有针对性的健康饮食知识和信息；2）以制定短期饮食计划与监督计划实施的方式给予相应反馈；3）平衡饮食与健身关系；4）利用社交促进饮食搭档或办公群体间形成良性的饮食习惯。最终，EAT@WORK通过Adobe XD等技术手段实现出来，在目标用户群里接受到了广泛且积极的使用反馈。

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论文发表：Pan, S., Ren, X., Vos, S., and Brombacher, A. EAT@WORK: Designing a mHealth App for Promoting Healthy Eating Routines among Dutch Office Workers. In PervasiveHealth’21: 15th EAI International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare, Springer, 2021.

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