Health Wizard

‘Health Wizard’ is an Android mobile application which assists users to widen their eating habits for a healthy lifestyle.This app makes use of the idea/concept called ‘Attentive eating’ which means eating in the lack of disruption and increasing alertness and memory for food being consumed. Therefore, the app will aim to encourage individuals to eat more attentively as a result will enable them to reduce their calorie intake. The app also aims be informative and motivate users to choose healthier food choices.

One of the main functions of ‘Health Wizard’ is its ‘Snap’ feature which is embedded into the application which allows users to take a picture prior to eating/drinking a food or beverage. The users can then share their healthy snack or healthy meal via their social media. Another function of the app is to allow the user to select an enjoyable aspect of the healthy food they have just eaten via selecting the appropriate check-box; if the ‘aspect’ is not available the user can enter the ‘aspect’ in to the text box called ‘other. The main purpose of this is to allow the user to take a moment to appreciate the nice aspects of the healthy food they have eaten. There will also be a field to enter the name of the healthy food the user has eaten. This field will become a stored tag in a drop-down list in that field. For example, if the user entered an ‘Apple’ in a previous occasion, they will easily be able to select the same ‘Food Name’ from the drop down list if they have eaten the same healthy food previously. This application aims to help user appreciate the nice aspects of healthy food and make it an enjoyable experience via enabling them to take a picture of their healthy food.