A New Way To Fight Obesity

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A New Way To Fight Obesity

• Joshua Cordova - joshua.cordova_at_gmail.com
• Hana Lee - hana.c.lee_at_gmail.com
• Seong Joon Lee - sjnicklee_at_hanmail.net

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Obesity

• 2nd leading cause of death in US
• Increases the risk of many diseases
• Medical expenses of obesity 50 billion/year
• Weight loss is the best treatment
• -change diet, physical activity habits

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Intended Users

• Mainly, people who are suffering from obesity.
• Specifically, BMI of over 25 but less than 40
• Needs to get below BMI of 25
• People who are concerned about being obese.
• Use cell phone / PDA / mobile device.

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Requirements

• Hardware Requirements PDA
• Software Content
• BMI check / diary
• Weight Diary
• Calorie check / diary
• Exercise Diary
• Personal Profile

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Usability Test
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Usability Test of DOT

• 10 subjects
• 8 tasks
• Creating a new profile under your name
• Calculate BMI
• Send email to Dr. Motorola Kodak
• View doctors note from yesterday
• View stats for yesterdays date
• Enter 250 calories eaten for today
• Enter 500 calories burned for today
• Enter your weight for today

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Post-test Results

• Overall Reactions to the system
• (Terrible-Wonderful) 6
• You can accomplish tasks
• (With Difficulty-Easily) 6.1
• Learning to operate system
• (Difficult-Easy) 6.5
• Characters on the computer screen
• (Hard to read-Easy to read) 7.2

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Conclusion
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Conclusion

• Calendar
• BMI calculator
• Drs Feedback

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Future Work

• More network/internet aspect
• Direct Chat with the doctor
• add graphs
• food look up in the system.

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Thank You!

• DOT team