Aug 14 – 18, 2023
Europe/Berlin timezone

[P44-LH/EI]Digital therapeutic game helps morbidly obese people start losing weight "HELPING FATTY"

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20m
Poster Poster(Thu)

Speakers

Binwon Song Jaehyeon An Jeonghoon Ha (Dongseo University) Suyeon Byun

Description

  1. OverView
    Obesity can promote a variety of adult diseases. It can be difficult for people in this group to even start exercising. Develop a game to help people in this group get into the habit of exercising more easily.
    The definition of a morbidly obese person is someone who has been determined to be morbidly obese by a clinic center.

  2. The importance of research
    Obesity is the abnormal accumulation of fatty tissue in the body, resulting in weight gain. It is an important risk factor for many diseases such as hypertension, diabetes, hyperlipidemia, heart disease, stroke, and arthritis. It's a disease that should be treated aggressively because it interferes with daily life. Since it is difficult for people in this group to start exercising at a high intensity from the beginning, we want to develop a game that will help them start losing weight.

  3. Main features
    Physical activity tracking: Track and record a user's steps, workouts, calories burned, and more. This helps users maintain their daily activity levels.
    Create a personalized character: Create a personalized character that fits the user's body type and character design preferences. The character moves when doing physical activities such as walking, running, etc. to increase user motivation.
    Character upgrades based on accumulated steps: Each time a user accumulates steps, their character is upgraded. This allows users to enjoy the game while maintaining a healthy lifestyle.
    Downgrade: If no steps are taken within a certain time, the character will be downgraded.
    Clean Diet Management: Determine whether the food taken by the user is a clean diet or not. Items are awarded accordingly. This encourages users to maintain healthy eating habits and enjoy the game. Clean diets are limited to fast food, fried food, and processed food.
    Checking the water intake: We track the amount of water you drink and reward you with items if you drink more than a certain amount.

Ranking system: compares health metrics between users and ranks them. This allows users to compete with other users.

4.How the service works

Recognize the user and characterize their appearance through the UNITY VISION API. The user uses their character to play the game. Characters can be upgraded based on their cumulative viewing data, game scores, and diet completion. Upgraded characters can be used to unlock higher tier characters.

4.(1) Data Processing

Determine whether a diet is clean by comparing it to a baseline dataset:
The clean diet determination criteria dataset takes into account healthy nutrient intake percentages, calorie restriction, and saturated and trans fatty acid content. The user's food information is analyzed and compared to this dataset to determine whether or not the user is eating a clean diet and communicated to the user.

Store personalized scores for each user: Calculate a score based on a user's health metrics and store it individually for each user. Users can view their scores to understand their health status.

Save personalized characters for each user: Save personalized characters for each user by selecting their preferred body type. This allows users to create their own characters, play games, and maintain a healthy lifestyle.

User-only cumulative data: Use the Samsung Health API to track the number of steps a user has taken, the amount of exercise, calories burned, etc. and store it cumulatively.

4.(2) Types of AI Model Utilization
vision api , YOLO

5.Use cases and expectations
Walking is one of the easiest and safest exercises for people with morbid obesity to start, and it's best to do it at a lower intensity for beginners and those trying to lose weight.[1] If you make walking a game and make it a habit, it can be a great way to lose weight, build muscle, and improve your health.

References

[1] Hyukjeong Kwon. (2009) .Impacts of Walking Exercise on obesity, p33.

Keywords obesity, digital therapeutics, walking, object recognition, action run

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