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Alone or With Others? Understanding Eating Episodes of College Students with Mobile Sensing

Meegahapola, Lakmal Buddika  
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Ruiz-Correa, Salvador
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Gatica-Perez, Daniel  
2020
Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia
19th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia

Understanding food consumption patterns and contexts using mobile sensing is fundamental to build mobile health applications that require minimal user interaction to generate mobile food diaries. Many available mobile food diaries, both commercial and in research, heavily rely on self-reports, and this dependency limits the long term adoption of these apps by people. The social context of eating (alone, with friends, with family, with a partner, etc.) is an important self-reported feature that influences aspects such as food type, psychological state while eating, and the amount of food, according to prior research in nutrition and behavioral sciences. In this work, we use two datasets regarding the everyday eating behavior of college students in two countries, namely Switzerland (Nch=122) and Mexico (Nmx=84), to examine the relation between the social context of eating and passive sensing data from wearables and smartphones. Moreover, we design a classification task, namely inferring eating-alone vs. eating-with-others episodes using passive sensing data and time of eating, obtaining accuracies between 77% and 81%. We believe that this is a first step towards understanding more complex social contexts related to food consumption using mobile sensing.

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conference paper
DOI
10.1145/3428361.3428463
Author(s)
Meegahapola, Lakmal Buddika  
Ruiz-Correa, Salvador
Gatica-Perez, Daniel  
Date Issued

2020

Publisher

Association for Computing Machinery

Publisher place

New York, NY, USA

Published in
Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia
ISBN of the book

978-1-4503-8870-2

Start page

162

End page

166

Subjects

Eating Behavior

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mHealth

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mobile sensing

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smartphone sensing

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food diaries

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passive sensing

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social context

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wearable sensing

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well-being

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http://publications.idiap.ch/downloads/papers/2020/Meegahapola_MUM-2_2020.pdf
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Event name
19th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia
Available on Infoscience
April 13, 2021
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/177248
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