Workshop on Technology for Automated Capture of Diet, Nutrition, and Eating Behaviors in Context

该奖项支持一个关于计算和工程方法测量饮食行为和营养的研讨会。研讨会汇集了研究人员，政策制定者和生物医学研究人员，以发展营养和饮食行为评估的多学科未来。迄今为止，生物医学界仍在使用24小时召回或让人们到医院进行定量配给和精确测量的方法来测量营养和饮食行为。技术的使用是有限的，计算和工程界一直在努力确定正确的行为（例如，购买食物与咀嚼时间）和测量单位（微量营养素与咀嚼时间）。因此，正在开发的工具不符合需求，也没有推动整个科学界的发展。要开发有效的模型和方法，最终需要不同研究人员的合作，这些研究人员通常不会在一起讨论，也不会参加类似的会议，也不会阅读相同的学术文献。长期以来，饮食行为和营养一直是计算机和工程界关注的焦点，因为它们充满了令人兴奋的技术挑战。例如，在颗粒水平上理解食物摄入可能需要计算机视觉、光学和/化学工程的进步。因此，这次研讨会将把那些正在建立新方法和工具的人与那些将使用它们为这些不同研究小组的未来制定研究计划的人聚集在一起。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This award supports a workshop on computational and engineering approaches to measuring eating behavior and nutrition. The workshop brings together investigators, policy makers and biomedical researchers to develop a multidisciplinary future in nutrition and eating behavior assessment. To date, the biomedical community is still measuring nutrition and eating behavior using either 24-hour recall or having people come to the hospital so that food can be rationed and measured precisely. The use of technology is limited and the computing and engineering community have struggled with targeting the correct behaviors (e.g., food purchases versus time chewing) and units of measures (micronutrients versus time chewing). Thus, the tools being developed do not match the needs and does not advance the scientific community as a whole. To develop effective models and methods, ultimately requires the collaboration of diverse researchers who normally do not talk together nor attend similar conferences nor read the same academic literature. Eating behavior and nutrition has long been a focus of the computing and engineering communities because they are rich with exciting technical challenges. For example, understanding food intake at a granular level will likely require advances in computer vision, optics and/chemical engineering. Thus, this workshop will bring together those who are building new methods and tools with those who will use them to create a research plan for the future of these diverse research groups.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.