Crumbs: Lightweight Daily Food Challenges to Promote Engagement and Mindfulness

Many people struggle with efforts to make healthy behavior changes, such as healthy eating. Several existing approaches promote healthy eating, but present high barriers and yield limited engagement. As a lightweight alternative approach to promoting mindful eating, we introduce and examine crumbs:...

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Autores principales: Epstein, Daniel A., Cordeiro, Felicia, Fogarty, James, Hsieh, Gary, Munson, Sean A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5428072/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28503679
http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2858036.2858044
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author Epstein, Daniel A.
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description Many people struggle with efforts to make healthy behavior changes, such as healthy eating. Several existing approaches promote healthy eating, but present high barriers and yield limited engagement. As a lightweight alternative approach to promoting mindful eating, we introduce and examine crumbs: daily food challenges completed by consuming one food that meets the challenge. We examine crumbs through developing and deploying the iPhone application Food4Thought. In a 3-week field study with 61 participants, crumbs supported engagement and mindfulness while offering opportunities to learn about food. Our 2×2 study compared nutrition versus non-nutrition crumbs coupled with social versus non-social features. Nutrition crumbs often felt more purposeful to participants, but non-nutrition crumbs increased mindfulness more than nutrition crumbs. Social features helped sustain engagement and were important for engagement with non-nutrition crumbs. Social features also enabled learning about the variety of foods other people use to meet a challenge.
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spelling pubmed-54280722017-05-12 Crumbs: Lightweight Daily Food Challenges to Promote Engagement and Mindfulness Epstein, Daniel A. Cordeiro, Felicia Fogarty, James Hsieh, Gary Munson, Sean A. Proc SIGCHI Conf Hum Factor Comput Syst Article Many people struggle with efforts to make healthy behavior changes, such as healthy eating. Several existing approaches promote healthy eating, but present high barriers and yield limited engagement. As a lightweight alternative approach to promoting mindful eating, we introduce and examine crumbs: daily food challenges completed by consuming one food that meets the challenge. We examine crumbs through developing and deploying the iPhone application Food4Thought. In a 3-week field study with 61 participants, crumbs supported engagement and mindfulness while offering opportunities to learn about food. Our 2×2 study compared nutrition versus non-nutrition crumbs coupled with social versus non-social features. Nutrition crumbs often felt more purposeful to participants, but non-nutrition crumbs increased mindfulness more than nutrition crumbs. Social features helped sustain engagement and were important for engagement with non-nutrition crumbs. Social features also enabled learning about the variety of foods other people use to meet a challenge. 2016-05 /pmc/articles/PMC5428072/ /pubmed/28503679 http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2858036.2858044 Text en http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. Copyrights for components of this work owned by others than ACM must be honored. Abstracting with credit is permitted. To copy otherwise, or republish, to post on servers or to redistribute to lists, requires prior specific permission and/or a fee. Request permissions from permissions@acm.org (http://permissions@acm.org)
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5428072/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28503679
http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2858036.2858044
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