Lifestyle improvement support system considering context of a user

Abstract

Recently, a healthcare system utilizing electronic technology is attracting attention in the world. People are becoming increasingly conscious about health. Current healthcare services increase health awareness by providing information, but don't utilize the information. Moreover, medical service has problem of lacking the concept of prevention. For those problems, this research proposes a lifestyle improvement support system which shows user how to use advice. At the time of shopping and cooking, the system provides advice that match user's context. By using the context, the system provides proper advice. The previous research found that user's lifestyle is deeply related to the content of advice. In order to solve those problems, this research includes budget, work load, time in advice as context. This research performs a comparative evaluation of the proposed algorithm and the algorithm of the previous paper.