Challenges for Nutrition Recommender Systems

Obesity or being overweight in general often leads to other more severe diseases. With more than half of the population in the west- ern countries being overweight or even obese, systems are developed to help users make healthier food choices by recommending healthier recipes or food items according to the user's needs or likes and dislikes. But there are many challenges designing such systems. In this paper we try to iden- tify the difficulties encountered and discuss ways to deal withthem.

[1]  F. Thompson,et al.  Dietary assessment resource manual. , 1994, The Journal of nutrition.

[2]  V. Strecher,et al.  Improving dietary behavior: the effectiveness of tailored messages in primary care settings. , 1994, American journal of public health.

[3]  Prakash Shetty,et al.  The problem of accuracy in dietary surveys. Analysis of the over 65 UK National Diet and Nutrition Survey , 2000, Journal of epidemiology and community health.

[4]  John A. Hoxmeier,et al.  System Response Time and User Satisfaction: An Experimental Study of Browser-based Applications , 2000 .

[5]  C. Diclemente,et al.  The role of feedback in the process of health behavior change. , 2001, American journal of health behavior.

[6]  Gary Hsieh,et al.  Using Low-Cost Sensing to Support Nutritional Awareness , 2002, UbiComp.

[7]  M. Becker,et al.  Strategies for enhancing patient compliance , 2005, Journal of Community Health.

[8]  W. Kirch,et al.  Übergewicht und kardiovaskuläre Folgeerkrankungen , 2006 .

[9]  Johan Aberg,et al.  Dealing with Malnutrition: A Meal Planning System for Elderly , 2006, AAAI Spring Symposium: Argumentation for Consumers of Healthcare.

[10]  David Elsweiler,et al.  Towards memory supporting personal information management tools , 2007 .

[11]  Reijo Savolainen.  Dietary blogs as sites of informational and emotional support , 2010, Inf. Res..

[12]  Shlomo Berkovsky,et al.  Intelligent food planning: personalized recipe recommendation , 2010, IUI '10.

[13]  M. Slawik,et al.  Adipositas – Klinische Bedeutung und Behandlungsstrategien , 2011, Der Radiologe.

[14]  Kiyoharu Aizawa,et al.  Food Log by snapping and processing images , 2010, 2010 16th International Conference on Virtual Systems and Multimedia.

[15]  Ruth H. Keogh,et al.  Allowing for never and episodic consumers when correcting for error in food record measurements of dietary intake , 2011, Biostatistics.

[16]  Youri van Pinxteren,et al.  Deriving a recipe similarity measure for recommending healthful meals , 2011, IUI '11.