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SUBMITTER: Epstein DA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5428072 | biostudies-literature | 2016 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Epstein Daniel A DA Cordeiro Felicia F Fogarty James J Hsieh Gary G Munson Sean A SA
Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on human factors in computing systems. CHI Conference 20160501
Many people struggle with efforts to make healthy behavior changes, such as healthy eating. Several existing approaches promote healthy eating, but present high barriers and yield limited engagement. As a lightweight alternative approach to promoting mindful eating, we introduce and examine <i>crumbs</i>: daily food challenges completed by consuming one food that meets the challenge. We examine crumbs through developing and deploying the iPhone application <i>Food4Thought</i>. In a 3-week field ...[more]