mHealth Platform and Architectures to Provide Nutritional Guidance to Children

Authors

  • Mabel Vazquez Briseno Autonomous University of Baja California
  • Manuel Diaz Arce Autonomous University of Baja California
  • Elitania Jimenez Garcia Autonomous University of Baja California
  • Juan Ivan Nieto Hipolito Autonomous University of Baja California

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3991/ijim.v7i4.3083

Keywords:

Internet of Things, mHealth, NFC, QR Codes.

Abstract


Obesity and eating disorders in children are major problems worldwide. To promote their future well-being, it is important to educate children and teenagers about healthy lifestyle choices. Mobile technology offers many opportunities for helping to prevent health problems; however, the sole use of stand-alone applications is insufficient to improve childrenâ??s health awareness because children require proper orientation from adults. In this paper, we present a mobile platform intended to provide nutrition guidance to children and architectures for implementing this platform in an elementary school environment. These architectures provide data capturing and user interfaces that are especially suited for children, and they permit adults to send and receive notifications and messages to improve results.

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Published

2013-10-12

How to Cite

Vazquez Briseno, M., Diaz Arce, M., Jimenez Garcia, E., & Nieto Hipolito, J. I. (2013). mHealth Platform and Architectures to Provide Nutritional Guidance to Children. International Journal of Interactive Mobile Technologies (iJIM), 7(4), pp. 15–20. https://doi.org/10.3991/ijim.v7i4.3083

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