PureFoods "YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT" Haoyue Wang, Kerese Wright, Mengyi Miao, Will Smallwood

Problem Motivation Unsafe foods cause an estimated 6.5 to 81 million illnesses and 9,100 related deaths each year in the United States[1] Hard for most people to maintain the quality and freshness of their foods 1. Mississippi State University. (2011). Food Safety. food_safety/

Problem Description Reduce toxic food consumed possibility Keep food freshness/expiration dates updated Keep a right track on refrigerator's temperature and lighting

Related Work Most website and mobile apps only support textual information/instructions. Many of them are focus on food itself and additive, but ignore the environment and method to store the food. Many of the information are either too professional or too complicated for common people.

Website

Mobile App Good information but hard for user to remember. Very professional, however may not be the thing common people want Passive: with no visualized information and interact function

Our Solution Provide live refrigerator information Keep track on all the food user purchased and build inventory list with detailed information for user to interact. Send warning and reminding when foods are going bad

Tasks Overview The functional prototype followed three basic tasks: Food Storage History Review Warning Summary Food Inventory Maintenance

Lo-fidelity Prototype Our prototyping progressed throughout the project: Paper Mock Ups Balsamiq Models Interactive Website and Mobile Application

User testing performed on our Balsamiq model helped shape the future of our program Witty names Ease of navigation Labeling of graphics Mid-Fidelity User Testing

Our primary interactive prototype was a mobile application. Android Operating System Some functionality was dictated by system Interactive Prototyping

(Interactive Prototype Short Video) (Will clicks on this video)

User Testing

User Testing (contd) RankDescriptionSuggested Changes 4repeatedly go back to previous screens in order to get back to home screen add a home screen button 4strain eyes to see wordsmake font size bigger 3click on selection bar instead of words make selection bar selectable 2click item and then remove instead of reverse make applicable for both ways 1submit item without completing all fields include * for required fields

Conclusion Contributions o created database to hold user's refrigerated items o alert users about expired foods, temperature and lighting excess o view current refrigerator's temperature and lighting settings Future Additions o camera view of refrigerator o recommended recipes for upcoming expired foods o text processing tool (parse items on a receipt)