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脴聽聽聽聽聽聽 User Account Database
u聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 User Information Table //user鈥檚 basic information
u聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 Disease Record Table // record the user鈥檚 disease information
u聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 Food Journal Table // record the user鈥檚 daily food information, including the supplement information, and this table will be renewed every half year.
u聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 Daily Summary Table // = [user + day + all nutrition factors], it鈥檚 the summary of Food Journal Table
u聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 Workout Journal Table // record the user鈥檚 daily workout information
u聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 Favorite Food Table // restore the Top 10 popular food of the corresponding month
脴聽聽聽聽聽聽 Default/Pre-stored Database
u聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 Food // all nutrition factor
u聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 Disease // [sensitive factor + disease name], it matches the sensitive factor and disease
u聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 Restaurant // dish information, updated by each restaurant
u聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 Workout // all workout and exercise information
u聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 Supplement // supplementary nutrition factor, such as Vitamin C鈥?/span>
There is another database on the PDA side to store the corresponding user鈥檚 information, which includes the following tables.
u聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 User Information Table
u聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 Disease Record Table
u聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 Food Journal Table
u聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 Food Plan Table // the user can set his plan beforehand, if he forget to enter journal, system will apply the Food Plan
u聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 Food Calories Table // download from server, includes all the food calories, = [Food + Calories]
u聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 Sensitive Food Table // this is searched from server side, Disease Table. It records the user is sensitive to what factors.
u聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 Pill-taking Table // record the user鈥檚 pill-taking schedule
PDA side database stores the corresponding user鈥檚 information only. Server side database stores complete information.
Introduction part: describe the software (IS)
The scope of the users
1. Do you have PDA, or do you want to buy a PDA device in the coming years?
2. If you have PDA, are you willing to use the software?
(2. To restaurant: do you want to use the online service of this IS)?
Personal questions: incoming, job, disease?
3. Have you used such IS?
4. Do you want to use an IS to remind you to take pills?
5. Do you want to use an IS to track your food information?
6. We have proposed the following functions in IS:
(Give the rank to each function) 鈥?(the functions listed here)
6.1 There is a function (Eating Patten Recommendation) 鈥?(describe this function in brief), do you want to use this function?
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7. How much do you want to pay for such IS if you buy? 鈥?list the range of fee
8. How much of the monthly fee you can
accept? (List the functions in Q.6.X 鈥?online functions) 鈥?list the range of the charge fee
8. Recommendation to the IS
聽聽聽聽聽聽 Any new features you want?
Organizational
Impact
Value
Metric
Time Frame
Strategic
Increase the product awareness and brand image
Penetrate new target market
Increase market share from 20% to 40%
Increase nutrition advice features from 50% to 70%
Include restaurants, supermarkets as new users
24 months
12 months
12 months
Customer
Receive better services and comprehensive nutrition advices
Reduce journal data entry procedure from 5 steps to 3 steps
At least 5 nutrition tips per day compared with 2 originally
Nutrition advices come from diet, sport and medical three aspects compared to 1 originally
6 months
6 months
6 months
Financial
Increase revenue
Reduce cost of regular updating database
Charge $5 monthly each customer will increase revenue by 15%
$0 food database updating cost any more
24 months
6 months
Operational
Eliminate process of updating food database
No food database update process which will done by restaurants and supermarket themselves
6 months
Social
Increase awareness of healthy life style
Increase No. of customer by 20%
24 months
The original existing nutrition systems of the company provide customer the general functions which could also be found in other competitors鈥?products. As our proposed new features added nutrition system launches, the outstanding specialty would attract new customers to increase market share from 20% to 40% based on original pie, which would be achieved within 2 years. And, as new type of users involved in our proposed system, target market will penetrate into restaurants and supermarkets.
By improving the data entry efficiency of reducing the input procedure from 5 to 3, and giving more nutrition tips and reminders, our proposed system would definitely become more and more attractive. Moreover, we change our charging type from software renting payment one time forever to monthly payment. The overall revenue would increase by 15% in 2 years鈥?time.
As restaurants and supermarkets taking part in our proposed system, they鈥檒l update their food database regularly all by themselves in order to attract customers for competition, we eliminate the database updating process, which would decrease the maintaining cost and data updating errors that would increase the efficiency of system鈥檚 operation.
From social perspective, the more customers using our system, the more aware of healthy life style in the society. This is our prospect in long-run.
2. Project Team:
3. Project Description: Introduction, Objective
4. MOV
聽聽聽聽聽聽 a. Identify the Desired Area of Impact
聽聽聽聽聽聽 1> Customer 鈥?care health; achieve the user鈥檚 health goal
-聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 Amount of PDA device user; amount of nutrition system users.
-聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 Help customer take care of health, and take of disease
聽聽聽聽聽聽 2> Financial
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cost source: web server, nutrition information suppliers, registry capital(fixed cost), variable cost
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assume 3 year
聽聽聽聽聽聽 3> Social
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聽聽聽聽聽聽 4> Strategic
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Create the brand image
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5> Operational
-聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 Let the users do less data entry 20% reduced, improve the entry efficiency
-聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 Convenient to let the users know their health condition
-聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 Restaurant can get data from the system, users鈥?preference
聽聽聽聽聽聽 b. Identity the Desired Value of the IT Project
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聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 Users
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聽聽聽聽聽聽 c. Develop an Appropriate Metric
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聽聽聽聽聽聽 d. Set a Time Frame
5. Alternatives
聽聽聽聽聽聽 5.1 Pure online
聽聽聽聽聽聽 5.2 Pure PDA
聽聽聽聽聽聽 5.3 Internet-enabled PDA + server
Total cost of ownership
Total benefit of ownership
In this work, a nutrition system with Internet-enabled PDAs and web server is proposed, which can be used to keep track of user鈥檚 diet and workout history, generate warnings of unsuitable food based on users鈥?body information, and create periodic health reports.
The existing systems have the following main problems. First of all, somebody does not understand how to use the existing systems. To illustrate, the measurement of blood pressure is hard to certain users who do not how to know measure blood pressure. And the amount of workload is hard to measure. Second, the exiting systems do not motivate the users to enter data. Perhaps, the users forget, even detest, entering the data in certain days. Thus, the system cannot work out properly the result based on the incomplete data. Third, the existing systems do not provide notification for user under some situation. For example, when a diabetic orders a dish with high sugar, the existing systems do not give the user a warning.
The proposed system has four types of new services. Patient care service using notice and warning message to helps patients take care of their diseases. Food comparison service compare nutrition facts of different food that users want to choose from, and then recommend users of the more nutrient one. Tips service shows nutrition tips every time the system is activated. Online service includes Food recommendation, Eating pattern recommendation and Health report.
Compared with other existing nutrition softwares on the market, our proposed system has more novel and creative features, that satisfy different users鈥?various requirements, besides the basic functions 錛?/span> which has been mentioned in the background part.
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This function help patients take care of their diseases, by using notice and warning message.
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n聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 For patients with certain diseases, such as diabetes, or high blood pressure, the proposed system would remind them of what kind of food they can eat, and what cannot, by using warning message.
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n聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 The proposed system can do food comparison. It would compare nutrition facts of different food that users want to choose from, and then recommend users of the more nutrient one.
l聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 Tips service:
n聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 It would show nutrition tips every time the system is activated, for purpose of endorsing users not to give up.
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Besides the software installed on the PDA, a server would be set up to provide various services for the PDA software.
n聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 Food recommendation: The server can analyze users鈥?inputs from the PDA system, and then tell the most popular food of each restaurant.
n聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 Eating pattern recommendation: the server can analyze users鈥?eating patterns, and then recommend the healthier one to other users or the more successful weight loss menus to different users.
n聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 Health report: the proposed system would have monthly or weekly health reports for the users. Users can also check their health status in the past, by sending request. These reports would be in graphics patterns.
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This function uses alter, notice, and warning messages to take care of patients.
n聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 The proposed system can remind patients of taking pills, or doing any recovery exercise on time. Reminding message will automatically pop up when it is the time.
n聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 For patients with certain diseases, such as diabetes, or high blood pressure, the proposed system would remind them of what kind of food they can eat, and what cannot.
l聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 Food comparison service:
n聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 The proposed system can do food comparison. It would compare nutrition facts of different food that users want to choose from, and then recommend users of the more nutrient one.
l聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 Tips service:
n聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 It would show nutrition tips frequently to endorse users, sticking to their goals.
l聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 Online service:
Besides the software installed on the PDA, a server would be set up to provide various services for the PDA software.
n聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 Food recommendation: The server can analyze users鈥?inputs from the PDA system, and then tell the most popular food of each restaurant.
n聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 Eating pattern recommendation: the server can analyze users鈥?eating patterns, and then recommend the healthier one to other users or the more successful weight loss menus to different users.
n聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 Health report: the proposed system would have monthly or weekly health reports for the users. Users can also check their health status in the past, by sending request. These reports would be in graphics patterns.
As a beginner to
use a nutrition system, firstly, you need to know several things here:
General Function Terms
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Journal
Food
Journal
In the food journal window, you need to add
each kind of food you鈥檝e eaten on daily basis. In action, please do the
selection from general to specific description of meal, such as if you鈥檝e eaten
saute rice with egg, first select rice, then you should have seen the saute
rice with egg record from our database, finally you just select it and add to
the food journal. The food journal will automatically fulfill the nutrition
facts鈥?part and calculate the total nutrients you鈥檝e got.
Workout
Journal
In the workout journal, you need to add
each type of sports you鈥檝e made on daily basis. In action, please select the
sport name plus the time duration, such as firstly select jogging, secondly 30
minutes, you鈥檒l have done all the user required entries. The workout journal
will automatically fulfill the calories you鈥檝e expended totally.
Supplement
Journal
In the supplement journal, you need to add
each supplement you鈥檝e taken on daily basis. In action, please select the name
of supplement and the quantity, such as Vitamin C, 2 pills. Then the record
would be added into the supplement journal.
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Goals
In the goals window, you could set up your ideal
weight, wrist and hip circumstances, daily calories intake constrain, and other
medical measurements by entering the number.
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Analysis
Statistics
In the statistics window, the last week鈥檚
journal total nutrients statistics will be shown by default. You can also
select the time period such as last two weeks or last month on your preference.
Charts
It is the graphical view based on
statistics you鈥檝e made. Also, charts can be adjusted by selecting the time
durations.
Reports
If you want to know how many rice you鈥檝e
eaten for last two weeks, you can first select rice, then last two weeks as
user entry, then the list of record related to rice and the total amount will
be generated in a report on the screen. The report can be adjusted based on your
preference.
Nutrition Terminology
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Standard
academic nutrition formulas, based on which our system doing calculation are:
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BMI
(Body Mass Index)
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Daily Calories Needs
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Suggested
Nutrition Facts Daily Needs
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academic nutrition rules, based on which our system giving health advices are:
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Food
Pyramid
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RDA
(recommended dietary allowances)
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Diseases
and Medication Food Constraints
Databases
Our database is
created from bellowing reliable data sources:
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USDA
(provided by US government)
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FEHD
(provided by HK government)
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Major
Food Suppliers
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Restaurants
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Supermarkets
Our nutrition
system will give nutrition advices from a balancing healthy diet perspective,
which is observing comprehensive useful nutrition facts from various kinds of
foods, and disputing all the harmful effects by calculating users鈥?personal
health information.