NCT03869658

Food Talk: A New App for Daily Food Monitoring

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 40 (actual)
• Sponsor: Tufts University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This project will pilot test a new app for self-monitoring food intake using natural spoken language (by voice recognition or text) to provide daily estimates of energy and nutrient intakes with a phone app.

Detailed description

Self-recording food intake is recommended for weight management and healthy eating. However, current methods, including web platforms and apps, are often burdensome leading to short-term use by the consumer. The solution uses cutting-edge speech and language understanding technology to streamline the food logging process. With this technology, the user simply describes what they ate and the system automatically selects the appropriate items and quantities consumed from the USDA food database, which calculates the nutrition profile of the entry.

Conditions

• Dietary Intake

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	COCO application	All participants will complete a screening survey to determine their eligibility for the study, if eligible and willing to participate, he or she will sign an informed consent form. Once participants are enrolled in the study, a demographics questionnaire will be completed along with 5 days of food tracking on the COCO application. Between days 3 and 7, participants will complete two 24-hr diet recall, one a day, and a patient satisfaction questionnaire.

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-08-01
• Primary completion: 2019-06-01
• Completion: 2019-07-01
• First posted: 2019-03-11
• Last updated: 2019-09-13

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States