Final Ideas: Healthy Eating Device
One of our final ideas is to design a non-intrusive healthy eating device. This will give children a fun way to learn about healthy eating and exercise. The software on the device will depend heavily on colours and images because children of the targeted age range may not be able to read very well. The device personalisation will depend heavily on non-intursive blood monitoring instead of barcode scanning which was originally discussed. We decided barcode scanning would not be effective enough as children could simply not scan certain foods such as chocolate bars.
Physical features:
- Portable (strapped to the wrist)
- Durable touch screen
- USB connection
- Non-intrusive blood monitoring (gives readings for vitals such as blood pressure, blood oxygen, blood sugar, weight, temperature)
- Sound
Applications available on device:
Child Mode -
- Personal profile (displays current rewards and any health issues - diabeties, allergies etc)
- Medication monitor & alarm
- Food diary (includes recommendations based on blood monitoring results)
- Food information viewer (food contents and colour coding)
- Videos & Games (educational)
- Exercise diary
Adult Mode -
- Blood monitoring results
- Child's progress (statistics and weekly record)
- Food information viewer (detailed food content information)
- Medication monitor setup
Children will be able to personalise the device by creating their own profile which will be enhanced with the blood monitoring results. After analyising the blood monitoring results the device will be able to give advise to the child about what foods they should be eating and whether or not they are eating healthily and exercising regularly.
Children will also be able to watch educational videos/cartoons and play games on the device, these will involve taylored characters such as Andy Apple and Berty Burger. These videos and games will teach children about how different foods help the body and also teach them about simple exercises.
In adult mode a parent a teacher will be able to view the analyised blood monitoring results and statistics on how well children are managing their diet and how much they are learning. Children will receive virtual rewards that will be added to their personal profile if they are eating healthy and remembering to exercise. Adults will also be able to view more complex information about the contents of the food the children are eating.
Labels: Final Project Ideas
2 Comments:
This is not the idea we finalised.
The whole idea of the 'non-intrusive' device was not about barcode scanning. Barcode scanning (as we mentioned to Mike) wouldn't work because kids simple wouldn't do it. The idea was that the device would monitor the child's blood and other internal characteristics externally, without entering the body. The device would then encourage the child to eat healthily based on the information it had gathered. The rest of your features could then probably be built on top of that. If you are still confused about the non-intrusive stuff, read John's post (with some of my work in it too) about non-intrusive devices currently available.
Also, the device is 'portable' but is also 'attached' to the child's body (e.g. their wrist), because the group discussed that children would lose it or use it less if it wasn't. For the non-intrusive part to work, it needs to be in contact with the skin.
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