Mood4Food, Stanford University, CS377d, d.compress, Victoria Wee & Ji Park

1. MOOD4FOOD
TRANSFORMING MINDLESS FEEDING TO
INTUITIVE EATING
Victoria Wee | Ji Park

2. STRESSOR & POV
“Mindless food consumption induces self-directed
anxiety and guilt among college students at
Stanford”
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3. SBTM
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During each meal, pause and
reflect on mindful eating
prompts at 10 minutes intervals.

4. PROTOTYPE 1
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5. PROTOTYPE 2
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6. PROTOTYPE 2 REFINEMENT
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7. USER STORY: EDRIC
21. Male. Stanford Junior. BS in CS, Coterm in Education.
Athletic. Does not self id with disordered eating.
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8. USER STORY: EDRIC
“If I get stressed out and see food, I’ll eat the entire
bag of whatever it is. Then I feel really bad.”
“It’s not really a health issue because I go to the gym
and run a lot. I don’t really think about eating until
after I finish.”
“I wish I had more self-control.”
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9. TRIAL DESIGN
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PARTICIPANTS:
2 Groups: Control & Test
12 People/Group; 24 Total
GROUP SORTING:
Separate genders
Randomly sort females/males into 2 groups such that there is
an equal number of genders in each group
CONTROL GROUP:
Receives meal start message and post-meal survey
TEST GROUP:
Receives meal start message, mindful eating prompts at 10
min intervals during meal, and post-meal survey

10. TRIAL DESIGN
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4 day period.
Ran test 1 meal each day.
DAY 1: CONTROL | TEST
DAY 2: CONTROL | TEST

11. TRIAL DESIGN
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4 day period.
Ran test during 1 meal each day.
DAY 3: CONTROL | TEST
DAY 4: CONTROL | TEST

12. TRIAL DESIGN
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Post-meal survey:
1. How satisfied are you with your meal?
2. How satisfied do you feel about yourself
right now?
3. Three words that come to mind are:

13. QUALTITATIVE RESULTS
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TEST
CONTROL

14. QUANTITATIVE RESULTS
Q2:
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Sta%s%c
Value
Mean
5.19
Variance
2.54
Standard
Devia5on
1.60
Sta%s%c
Value
Mean
4.50
Variance
2.00
Standard
Devia5on
1.41
TEST
CONTROL

15.
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TEST
CONTROL

16. CONCLUSIVE NOI
Shift in post-meal thoughts between control
and test groups:
Control group tended to generate words describing the food
experience;
Test group tended to generate words describing the literal/
physicality of the food
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40% of users exhibited increased interaction
over the 4 days without additional prompting.
Texts became a journal.

17. MOOD4FOOD
NEXT STEPS…
Transforming into a mobile application.
Fine-tuning during meal interaction
& post-meal data collection
Longer trial period. Habit testing.
Integration with Vaden’s existing offline
mindful eating program