Context-Aware Personal Diet Suggestion System

Abstract. Keeping a healthy and balanced diet has long been a critical issue for a person wanting to stay fit and energetic in her/his daily life. We can always turn to a dietitian (or a nutritionist) for professional diet suggestions if necessary. However, we cannot have a dietitian staying with us all the time, which renders daily nutrition control very challenging. Therefore, it is desirable for each individual to receive handy and informative diet suggestions whenever necessary. In this work, we propose a Context-aware Personal Diet Suggestion System (CPDSS) which tries to maximize an aggregated health utility function and provides useful diet suggestions according to some contextual information. In order to increase the practicality of the proposed system, we have integrated the CPDSS with an everyday appliance–a smart refrigerator–so that we can readily access the suggestions about one's diet, receive instant context-aware reminders while preparing foods, and keep long-t...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2010
• Where: ICOST
• Authors: Yu-Chiao Huang, Ching-Hu Lu, Tsung-Han Yang, Li-Chen Fu, Ching-Yao Wang
• Keywords: Artificial Intelligence, Diet Suggestions, ICOST 2010, Informative Diet Suggestions, Professional Diet Suggestions