ShopWell App Evaluation & Hardware Improvement Plan

This assignment involves evaluating the ShopWell app for its functionality in providing nutritional information about scanned food items. While it offers some useful features like scoring and highlights certain nutrients, it falls short in accurately scanning all foods and lacks comprehensive nutrition details. The user also identifies a knowledge gap regarding hardware requirements of mobile devices. To improve upon this experience, they plan to explore better nutrition apps and enhance their understanding of mobile device hardware components through books and online resources.

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MIS and CBT

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
Information processing system the for App users.......................................................................1
Input, processing and output devices the mobile phone uses......................................................8
Reflection ...................................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES .............................................................................................................................11

INTRODUCTION
Today, the way of staying healthy and fit have changed as by making use of healthy
eating app, people can remain healthy and live a better life. More and more healthy eating apps
for mobile devices are designed that will make people aware about the nutritional value in their
food and it will keep track of the calories (Stoyanov and Mani, 2015). These apps are being
developed to make people conscious about their health and life now-a days have become more
engaged and people do not get much time to exercise or adapt healthy habit. But through these
mobile apps, they can manage both healthy lifestyle and their work. In this report, a new healthy
eating app for mobile device will be introduced and the information processing system for app
users will be presented.
Information processing system the for App users
The new healthy eating app that is shop-well will be introduced. It is a bar-code scanning
and shopping assistant app that will rate food and items of grocery as per the nutrition
requirements. A personalised profile is being developed by Shop-well users and from services of
nutritional goals such as heart disease and athletic training. The nutritional goals for dietary
restriction such as food allergies, celiac disease, vegetarian etc. These things are then taken into
consideration by the app and utilized to score scanned items of grocery and provide layman-
friendly nutritional pointers and healthy suggestions. The current version of this app is 5.4.6. It is
able to find the ingredient in about 400,000 foods with the help of lightening fast bar code
scanner. The best in class and personalised recommendation of food is being made by this app.
In the local grocery store location awareness to find products is being made.
 This app will help the people to learn about which food is right for them and for their
lifestyle.
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 It will also connect the grocery store loyalty card automatically in order to receive
recommendation(Ventola, 2014).
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Illustration 1: ShopWell
(Source:ShopWell, 2017)

 Based on the specific needs or preferences, it will provide one-click food discovery.
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Illustration 2: ShopWell
(Source:ShopWell, 2017)

The healthy suggestions will be given by this app every-time when the people will go to
shopping. The two options by this app are given.
 In order to discover information about the food, connect the favourite grocery store
loyalty or rewards card.
 To learn about the health ratings of over 350,000 products, mobile grocery scanners can
be used.
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Illustration 3: ShopWell
(Source:ShopWell, 2017)

It is a free IOS and android app. The interface of app is user-friendly and straightforwardness.
With just a few functions, this app provides what exactly it promises. The cost of this app is free
so the people can easily install it and make use of it.
Once it is being installed, it will ask the user some basic info to set up the profile. The details
such as name, gender, age etc. will be asked to the user.
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In the next step, it will ask the user about any food that they want to avoid. The gluten, peanuts,
soy, sesame, wheat, tree nuts etc. are included in the list.
In the next step, the grocery shopping what the user want need to be told to the app. General
health, heart health, athletic training, weight management etc. can be selected.
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Illustration 4: How to food-shop well with Shopwell
(Source:How to food-shop well with Shopwell, 2017)

Illustration 5: How to food-shop well with Shopwell
(Source:How to food-shop well with Shopwell, 2017)
In the final step, the app wants to know about the health condition that the user try to manage
such as type 1 or type 2 diabetes, high cholesterol etc. The app will start working once all the
information is imported.
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Illustration 6: How to food-shop well with Shopwell
(Source:How to food-shop well with Shopwell, 2017)
Input, processing and output devices the mobile phone uses
The shop-well is a free app. This means that users need not to pay any money in order to
install that app (Krebs and Duncan, 2015.). The hardware requirement of the mobile devices that
is needed in order to install this app is that mobile device OS need to be android or IOS, then
only this app will be installed.
This app will require android 4.0.3 and up in the mobile phone so that the app can be installed.
By making use of IOS and android phones, this app can be installed. The storage of about 128
GB in IOS phone is needed in order to install it. In order to read the input devices such as
barcode is needed
Mobile phone specification
OS IOS, Android
Cost of app Free
Requirement of Android version 4.0.3 and up
Input devices Keypad, barcode
Output devices Lights
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Storage IOS- 128 GB
Android- 8GB
The above mentioned picture represents how this app can be installed by making use of
IOS phone. In this, the storage that is required for mobile device to install this app is about 128
GB and is free of cost (Hew and Wei, 2015).
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Illustration 7: Healthy Grocery Lists and Food Scanner
(Source:Healthy Grocery Lists and Food Scanner, 2017)

Reflection
I think this shop-well app is a great app as through this app, I was able to find out the
food that was not healthy for my diet. I think that the process of scan is excellent as it quickly
scans the label of ingredients. I can think that one think about this app was not so pleasing was
that some food when scanner some have a score or nutrition information although it is found. In
addition, it also does not highlight the whole food very well. These two above mentioned things
were not so pleasing about this app. Next time, when the same exercise will be undertaken, I will
try to make use of app that will be able to overcome the negative part of shop well. The better
nutrition app will be selected. I learned that I am very good at collecting information about the
apps and I have good knowledge of mobile devices. Besides this, the weakness that I came
across is that I still have to work more about the hardware requirements of mobile devices such
as what all thing comes in this category etc. In order to overcome my weakness, I will try to gain
knowledge about hardware components through books, internet, newspaper etc.
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REFERENCES
Books and journals
Hew, J.J. and Wei, J., 2015. What catalyses mobile apps usage intention: an empirical analysis.
Industrial Management & Data Systems, 115(7), pp.1269-1291.
Krebs, P. and Duncan, D.T., 2015. Health app use among US mobile phone owners: a national
survey. JMIR mHealth and uHealth, 3(4).
Stoyanov, S.R. and Mani, M., 2015. Mobile app rating scale: a new tool for assessing the quality
of health mobile apps. JMIR mHealth and uHealth, 3(1).
Ventola, C.L., 2014. Mobile devices and apps for health care professionals: uses and benefits.
Pharmacy and Therapeutics, 39(5), p.356.
Online
Healthy Grocery Lists and Food Scanner. 2017. [Online] Available through:
<http://www.shopwell.com/mobileapp/>.
ShopWell. 2017. [Online] Available through:
<https://foodandnutrition.org/july-august-2013/shopwell/>.
How to food-shop well with Shopwell. 2017. [Online] Available through:
<https://www.cnet.com/how-to/how-to-food-shop-well-with-shopwell/>.
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