Top 5 Tools for Creating Healthy Habits for Busy Urban Professionals
1. Top Five Tools For Creating Health Habits Keith McDaniel 4/22/10 habits.stanford.edu
2. Overview: Mobile Professionals Adults 25-35 Working in offices, 9-5 Living in urban areas General eat out for two+ meals a day When not eating out, eat convenience foods Always has mobile phone with them, always connected
3. Tool 1: NYC Restaurant Scrutinizer Description Shows you health violations and reports on restaurants in the NYC area. Justification This tool allows people that eat out frequently in New York City to find restaurants that are diligent about safe food practices.
4. Tool 2: Food Scanner Description Allows you to scan UPC labels on food to log it and get nutritional information. Justification Urban professionals eat many convience foods, this allows for them to easily log and get their nutritional information. Since it is mobile, it is always available to them.
5. Tool 3: GoodGuide Description Gives an overview of all of the different health considerations to make on a product by scanning the UPC Justification Grocery shopping can be very difficult for someone looking for healthy products, this takes some of the guess work out of it.
6. Tool 4: Tweet what you eat Description You tweet a short description of your food, and the nutrition info is crowdsourced. Justification A very simple, easy-to-use way to log food and get a general idea of caloric intake, as well as increasing your awareness of how many calories each type of food has.
7. Tool 4: DrinkFit Description Provides nutrition information for alcohol, helps track consumption. Justification The app provides information that is not often easily accessible, and helps to track alcohol consumption, a common source of excess calories.
8. Wrapup: Mobile Professionals Just-in-time: These apps provide information at the moment it is useful. – Speaks to TRIGGERS and ABILITY All mobile apps: These users are rarely in one place for long – Speaks to ABILITY Easy data entry: These apps concentrated on easy entry to encourage logging, and then displayed results. – Speaks to MOTIVATION
