A Mobile Dietary and Emotional Diary System for Eating Disorder Care on the Smart Phone

The advancement of the Internet of Things (IoT) and wireless sensors have paved the way for the development of new services for next-generation healthcare systems. Eating disorders are real, complex medical, psychiatric illnesses that can have serious consequences for health, productivity and personal relationships. We designed and implemented a mobile dietary and emotional diary system on the smart phone in order to detect eating disorder based on patients eating history and facial status detection. Through an analysis of normal and abnormal dietary input and emotional states, this system is intended for providing eating disorder healthcare service as a service in the cloud. The initial experimental results are presented and further research topics are discussed. Keywords—IoT, Eating disorder care, mobile dietary system, emotional diary system, slow intelligence system.