Redo Proposal #1

Topic:
The Virtual Me

Background:
I am inspired by tweetwhatyoueat.com where people create their own food diary and track their eating habits using the popular twitter. Users tweet their daily food consumption up in the website with a log in ID and password throught mobile phones, Instant messengers or the web. It helps you to calculate the total amount of calories daily. From this method, it reminds users of how much or less they eat everyday.

More about TWYE. Click here.

Problem identification:

People does not realize the effect of type and amount of food consume into their bodies. It may cause unhealthy food habits which leads to obesity or lack of nutrients. In general, overtaking food for a person makes him fat in some parts of the body. It depends of what type of food they eat. Concerning obesity and overweight has become a global epidemic, many people neglect their eating habit which is affecting their health seriously. Therefore, they need to be reminded in visuals.

Objectives:

1. To identify the sample food and their effects on human body.

2. To visualize food consumption and effect on body.

3. To remind people to practise good eating habits.

Motivations:

To help people realize the consequences of what they eat and to control their bad eating habits. ( for people in general)

Ideation:

- data retrieve from tweetwhatyoueat. (food amount in calories, weight, IBM, gender)

- a dynamic human body figure.

The amount of how much a person eat daily will be calculated in calories and the body figure change according to the food consumption. If one day, that user eat too much of fried chicken, if too much calories consumed, the figure shall get fatter than normal.

The user needs to log in to send data for calculations. Thus, people can visualise how much food consume and type of food affects their body (certain parts of the body e.g. tummy, arms, thighs,etc.)Users can view the human figure in different views (front, side, back)