Diet Application for Gaining an Ideal Weight

• Main Author: Aldahoun, Mohammad Yousef Jamil
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English; English
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: TK5101-6720 Telecommunication
• Online Access: https://etd.uum.edu.my/2388/1/Mohammad_Yousef_Jamil_Aldahoun.pdf; https://etd.uum.edu.my/2388/2/1.Mohammad_Yousef_Jamil_Aldahoun.pdf; https://etd.uum.edu.my/2388/; http://lintas.uum.edu.my:8080/elmu/index.jsp?module=webopac-l&action=fullDisplayRetriever.jsp&szMaterialNo=0000764809

Obesity is considered as critical world-wide problem. In addition, it has a serious correlation with many health problems and diseases. This project contributes to solve the obesity problem. The application will provide diet schedules for users. Each schedule is suitable with certain terms which corresponding with certain user. The project focuses on UUM students. General methodology will be applied and used in this study. It consists of five phases including; awareness of the problem, suggestions, development, evaluation, and conclusion. A usability questionnaire is used to evaluate the acceptance of the respondents. The respondents are the UUM students who are obese. The data is analyzed using SPSS package. The mean and standard deviation is calculated for the data. The analysis revealed the proposed web-application is easy to use, has an acceptable interface, and enable the fast information retrieval. Overall, the users were satisfied of using the proposed web-application.