ME-Mindful Eating

Startup Porject

Opportunity Area

Obesity Rate: 42.4%

The U.S. adult obesity rate reaches 42.4 percent in 2020, the first time the national rate has passed the 40 percent mark, increasing by 26 percent since 2008.

Diabets: 34.2 million

34.1 million adults aged 18 years or older—or 13.0% of all US adults—had diabetes, 7.3 million of them who met laboratory criteria for diabetes were not aware of or did not report having diabetes.

Eating too fast causes 5 health risks:

Obesity / Diabetes / Metabolic Syndrome / Gastritis / Choke

Goal of ME Service

With motion data, sound detection, and voice input from Apple watch, recognize and improve people's eating habits, achieving both Mindful Eating and a Healthy Eating Pattern

Be fully attentive to your food and eat them with right tempo and timing. Enjoy the food for the greater good.

Customize individual needs and Build healthy eating pattern with the help of USDA and HHS guideline

How It Works

With motion data and sound detection, automatically recognize an eating action

Guide user through the process with right tempo

ME documents time, tempo, and bite count of every eating action

Users tell ME what and how much they eat via voice input

ME application sythesizes user's record and cloud data to provide an overview of the eating tempo and pattern. It also updates user's eating action in the Family Tempo for connections to review.

Interface Design

Auto-initiating Guidence

User-initiating Usage

Program and Prototype

Prototype of login function with Firebase storage

Programe a mini watch application to collect the realtime motion data of eating action.

Function prototype with Swift is still in process...

Documentation of Design Process

UI design v1

UI design v2

To be continued ...