The University of Sheffield
Department of Computer Science

Jialian Wang MSc Dissertation 2014/15

Diet and weight management app for overweight type 2 diabetics

Supervised by K.Bogdanov

Abstract

The project is provided by TaCT group which costs massive time and money on trial in order to prove that the diabetics are assoicated with obesity. The survery is to create mobile apps for motivating self-management of diet and physical activity with the goal of improving health of overweight people whether they have diabetics or not.

This app is recording the users' weight, height, gender, food intake and exercise and give them the feedback in order to monitor their daily intake compared with goal which is, in generally, a suggestion by the doctor and can be lose their weight step by step. The app is also contained some personal choices like changing the colour for the interface.