Showing posts with label assistant. Show all posts
Showing posts with label assistant. Show all posts

Saturday, April 10, 2010

Your Perfect Nutrition Assistant? What would they do for you?

What would a virtual nutrition assistant do for you? Suppose you're trying to change your body comp - lose fat; build muscle - whatever.  If you could imagine the perfect coach/guide who could be with you all the time - what would they be doing? When you go to have lunch, would they tell you what was ok to eat? If you were at home, would they suggest what to make or show you how to do it? If you needed to shop, what?

So if you think about all the times when food comes into your life - meals, snacking, social occaisions, workouts - whenever - what do you wish someone would be able to assist you to do - not do for you, but offer assistance/knowledge?

I'm aksing because part of the research my group is doing is looking at exactly this question: what is a perfect nutrition assistant?

Before we design anything, we want to make sure some of our design decisions are linking up with what folks think they'd find helpful.

If you could have such a wonderful support, what would you like it to do for and with you?

One constraint: this assistant is more or less a ghost: it can't do anything physical but it can offer to show you anything or provide any information in this space you'd like

Please do post your thoughts/desires in the comments.

Looking forward to hearing your thoughts.

In the meanwhile, here's a physical assistant from Japan that is designed to help the elderly shop - including getting around the shop and remembering anything that might have been forgotten.



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