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. 2009:2009:5183-6.
doi: 10.1109/IEMBS.2009.5333721.

Smart phones are useful for food intake and physical activity surveys

Erica M Wohlers  1 , John R Sirard, Charles M Barden, Jon K Moon
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Smart phones are useful for food intake and physical activity surveys

Erica M Wohlers et al. Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2009.

Abstract

Current self-report methods of recording food intake and Physical Activity (PA) are cumbersome and inaccurate. Food and activity surveys implemented on a smart phone will allow for immediate entry, data transfer to a researcher, and feedback to the user. Ten subjects followed a script, representative of one day, to enter food intake and PA on a smart phone. In the follow-up report, all subjects were interested in using the tested program to compare food intake with PA to predict weight gain and loss.

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