What's in my dish? – extracting food information through mobile crowdsourcing

Auteurs

L. Spassova, I. Lykourentzou, and A. Arens-Volland

Référence

IADIS International Journal on Computer Science and Information Systems, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 17-31, 2015

Description

This paper presents the results of research work performed at the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology ( LIST ) evaluating crowdsourcing approaches f or the acquisition of nutrition - related information. In particular , using an online crowdsourcing survey, we aim ed at assessing the usability and user acceptance of a set of interaction options applied in different user - supported tasks in the context of semi - automated acquisition of food - related information with smartphones. In this context, the survey also explored the participants’ attitude s towards food - related information and corresponding mobile applications.