Location-based Smartphone Technology to Guide College Students' Healthy Choices

描述（由申请人提供）：尽管大学营养和体育活动计划的流行，不良的饮食习惯和久坐行为是许多大学生的持续问题，他们被许多不健康的食物选择和体育活动障碍所包围，使他们容易患上糖尿病，心脏病和癌症等慢性疾病。健康绕道计划的出现是为了应对当前关于大学健康行为的统计数据和移动的技术的最新进展，这些技术允许改进行为跟踪和定制干预措施，这些措施可以以一种以前不可能的方式实时和按需管理。拟议的项目，以产生一个集成的智能手机应用程序和网络程序，以指导大学生更健康的饮食和体育活动的选择，为他们提供你需要的，基于位置的决策支持技术将由研究人员和多媒体开发人员领导在Klein Adeldel，公司。(KB)在营养和体育活动顾问、大学生保健服务专业人员、学生以及餐饮和体育活动机构决策者的协助下，拟议的第一阶段SBIR项目将为智能手机应用程序和配套网络实用程序开发内容和外观设计。具体而言，KB将：a）收集来自专家咨询委员会和焦点小组的意见，并与学生和餐饮和体育活动场所的管理人员一起开发原型编程所需的内容和功能特征; B）收集来自大学生健康服务专业人员的调查响应，以确定如何最好地设计健康绕道并将该程序整合到大学生健康社区中; c）与学生焦点小组一起测试程序原型; d）制定一份规格文件，概述完整的第二阶段开发计划。完成的第二阶段产品将收集用户在不同地点（如餐馆）登记时的饮食和身体活动习惯的基本数据。它将分析数据并提供定制的每周调度建议。Healthy Detours还将提供按需反馈，例如在关键时刻提供更健康的餐饮或健身选择。 决策点，并将提供例行提醒，以鼓励健康的行为。拟议的计划是独一无二的，因为它整合了营养和体育活动，提供了一个全面的行为模式分析。它还集成了多个平台，与学生，一个精通技术的人群，在他们最经常使用的设备上进行沟通，并在关键决策时刻进行干预。总的来说，拟议的项目可能会显着影响大学生的健康和生活质量，引导他们更健康的选择。Healthy Detours智能手机应用程序可以通过Android Marketplace或Apple的AppStore向大学生健康服务专业人员或直接向学生销售，或者可以与KB的Live Fit on Campus综合网络计划一起打包为配套产品（在NCI资助的研究CA 106141中进行评估; M.布勒，PI）目前正在销售给学院和大学。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Despite the prevalence of university nutrition and physical activity programs, poor eating habits and sedentary behavior are persistent problems for many college students who are surrounded by numerous unhealthy food choices and physical activity barriers which make them vulnerable to chronic diseases such as diabetes, heart disease and cancer. The Healthy Detours program emerges in response to current statistics on college health behavior and recent advances in mobile technology that allow for improved behavioral tracking and tailored interventions that can be administered in real-time and on-demand in a way that was not previously possible. The proposed project to produce an integrated Smartphone application and web program to guide college students to healthier eating and physical activity choices by providing them with as-you-need-it, location-based decision support technology will be led by researchers and multimedia developers at Klein Buendel, Inc. (KB) with the assistance of nutrition and physical activity consultants, university student health service professionals, students, and dining and physical activity establishment decision-makers. The proposed Phase I SBIR project will develop the content and look-and-feel design for the Smartphone application and companion web utility. Specifically, KB will: a) Gather input from an Expert Advisory Board and focus groups with students and managers of dining and physical activity venues to develop the content and functional features needed to program a prototypes; b) Collect survey responses from college student health services professionals to determine how to best design Healthy Detours and to integrate the program into college student health communities; c) Test the program prototype with student focus groups; and d) Develop a specifications document to outline the full Phase II development plan. The completed theoretically-based Phase II product will collect essential data on users' dietary and physical activity habits when they check in at various locations, such as restaurants, throughout the day. It will analyze the data and provide customized weekly scheduling recommendations. Healthy Detours will also offer on-demand feedback, such as healthier dining or fitness options at critical decision-making points and will provide routine reminders to encourage healthy behaviors. The proposed program is unique in that it integrates nutrition and physical activity to provide a comprehensive analysis of behavioral patterns. It also integrates multiple platforms to communicate with students, a tech- savvy population, on devices they most frequently use and intervenes at crucial decision making moments. Overall, the proposed project may significantly impact college students' health and quality of life by steering them to healthier choices. The Healthy Detours Smartphone app could be marketed to university student health services professionals or directly to students via the Android Marketplace or Apple's AppStore, or could be packaged as a companion product with KB's Live Fit on Campus comprehensive web program (evaluated in NCI-funded study CA106141; M. Buller, PI) currently being marketed to colleges and universities.