A project at the Health 2.0 Code-a-thon: HealthE Habits.
Everyone assumes food dataMany services track,analyze, or visualize a user’s diet information. (175 in the App Store alone on final count.) They design triggers, or rewards,and gamified feedback loops to encourage behavior. But they force the user to slog through repetitive typing tasks. On their phone. Every time they eat something.
Food entry blowsTyping in food data on mobile is terrible experience. It’s a consistent pain point across all manual food entry tasks. There are many shortcuts to reduce typing…but they are still workarounds. Because food is complicated.
Our hackathon projectWe sought to eliminate typing altogether. Rather than augmenting typed input, we use those same shortcuts (preceding behavior, and food data APIs) to allow much simpler interactions,via contextual lists, photographs, and voice input.
Check it out here.
Source: ericthebell.info