Reference 

S. S. Intille, C. Kukla, R. Farzanfar, and W. Bakr, "Just-in-time technology to encourage incremental, dietary behavior change," in Proceedings of the AMIA 2003 Symposium: Wiley, 2003.
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Abstract 

Our multi-disciplinary team is developing mobile computing software that uses "just-in-time" presentation of information to motivate behavior change. Using a participatory design process, preliminary interviews have helped us to establish 10 design goals. We have employed some to create a prototype of a tool that encourages better dietary decision making through incremental, just-in-time motivation at the point of purchase. 

Keywords 

Nutrition, behavior change, diet, point-of-purchase, point of decision, just-in-time, PDA, ubiquitous and mobile computing. 

Acknowledgements

National Science Foundation and Socket Communications (for a discount on the barcode scanner).