Can SAL Support Self Reflection for Health and Nutrition?

Abstract

Important long-term goals for good health and wellbeing are challenging to achieve. Emerging technology offers the promise of easy data collection to help people monitor progress toward such goals. We designed SAL (simple, situated ambient logger) to help people track food eaten. It is minimalist with a core goal of making it easy for people to log progress towards goals, in particular, diet goals. We recruited ten participants who used SAL food loggers over 2 weeks. Our analysis of SAL use and interviews indicates it is usable and supports reflection on food intake. Our key contributions are insights into the potential of, and future directions of SAL loggers.