1. Titlea. Mood4Food

2. Stressor + POVa. Stressor: Mindless food consumption induces self-directed anxiety and guilt among

college studentsb. POV:

3. SBTMa. Every 10 minutes during a meal, pause and physically ask yourself various mindful eating

prompts4. Prototype 1 (visual)

a. Avatar post it notes 5. Prototype 2 (visual)

a. Text screenshotsb. Survey screenshots

6. A user’s storya. Edric Kyauk (take story from other homework)

7. Trial designa. copy from notesb. control group/test-group switch: “switching replications design” Pablo talked about

i. control group turns into test group: for the same person check if it’s effective or not.

ii. test group turns into control group: check the ability of the app to build effective intuitive eating habits (once the prompts are taken away, ideally the test group will continue to eat intuitively after a period of “training” via the app).

8. Results:

a. QUALITATIVE RESULT:b. via coding the responses (method Pablo talked about)c. word cloud is different between test and control groupsd. control group: more descriptive of actual food (eg. carbs, asparagus, rice, chicken) and

factuale. test group: more emotive and experiential (eg. enjoyed, gross, warm, happy, yummy)

9. QUANTITATIVE RESULTSa. Basic information: Mean/SD of each groupb. ** take root mean square of the difference of question 1 and question 2 for each of the

data points.c. slightly larger RMS result for the control group (compared to the test group)

i. not a significant difference to drive a robust conclusion, but possibly enough for us to be on to something here

ii. want to try with more data points and through a longer survey time periodd.

10. Conclusive NOIa. Even though the data of ratings did not show significant differences, we have noticed that

there is a difference in ways participants think during eating - seen through word cloudb. As we progressed throughout 4 days, users get more interactive with the interface(as in,

they texted me more-_-). This implies users are discovering more and more insights about their eating habits and becoming more mindful.

11. Next stepsa. Twilio automated text message tree rather than manual texting (which stressed US out!)

b. Turn from text message program → Mobile applicationi. change survey from button selection to sliders(?) → requires less effort,

better fine-tuned quantiative responsesc. Longer test/survey, especially valuable in testing whether the app is building long-term

habits (test this via switching control group and test group after a “training period” where test group receives the prompts. After training period is over, stop sending prompts but continue collecting post-meal survey data, check to see if intuitive eating habit is built. Can also test different lengths of the training period to see what length of time is the sweet spot for long-term habit building.

d. Instead of text messages, try other channels to prompt eaters with mindful eating prompts

e. Inste -==pad of survey, other easy \\pf. Cooperate with Vaden. Run beta trials. In the future, want to integrate app with Vaden’s

mindful eating programg.