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- Age: 17 - 23
- Gender: roughly 45% Female, 55% Male
- Literate, and technologically adept**
- Good typing skills
- Experienced with using a web browser
- Some not willing to meet and/or form dining groups with strangers
- May pset in a study group and sometimes eat with them
- Eating habits vary per living group
- Very frequently multi-task.
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- Eating Habits
- Shares meals with large groups of friends
- Eats at the same location for every meal-plan prepared meal
- Usually has some say in what food is prepared
- Usually only 1 menu per meal though
- May not be able to find out the menu before a meal
- Usually has access to communal food in order to cook with on occasion
- Usually has access to nice cooking environment (commercial grade kitchen, lots of pots/pans, etc.)
- Persona:
- Name:
- Andrew
- Age 19 (sophomore)
- Course 9
- Gets dinner 6 nights a week and lunch 6 days a week (if he goes back to his house)
- Has to cook on one night of the week as part of a cooking team
- Sometimes cooks on the weekends
- Travel time is about 20 mins from campus
- Likes watching movies
- Uses Facebook a lot
- Checks email a few times a day
- Knows how to use a computer, but doesn’t know (or care) anything about how it works
- Lives at the house and has his own fridge in his room, though personal fridge is usually relatively empty
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- Have a huge say in what they eat, but less of a say in what ingredients go into what they eat.
- Don’t always know nutritional information about food consumed, but might not care
- Spend more on food than people who cook all the time, since it’s usually more expensive to eat out
- Goes out once in a while with small groups of friends
- Orders food through websites like CampusFood.com, etc.
- Persona:**
- Name: Dave
- Age: 21 (Senior)
- Course 8
- Goes out to eat at Pour House on Saturdays with a group of other course 8 seniors
- Orders food every 2 or 3 days, and saves the leftovers for the days in between
- Generally orders large quantities of food, like a large pizza or a large dish of pasta or chinese food
- Has a personal fridge to store the food in
- Always looking for a good deal on food, and uses online coupons
- Also uses sites like BuyWithMe or Groupon for discounts
- Really into console gaming; plays a lot of Halo with a group of friends in his dorm
- Checks e-mail constantly. Checks Facebook maybe once a month. Doesn’t know what Twitter is.
- Can type quickly
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- Specify a new food log entry
- Enter information pertaining to the food eaten, such as:** Type of meal (breakfast, lunch, dinner, snack, other)** Date
- What food items were eaten*** User can optionally choose this from the list of food in possession
- Optionally for each food item:*** Amount of item eaten
- Food group that item belongs to
- Calories
- Cost
- Submit information
- As an alternative to the above, if a user is a member of a Group (see section IV below), user can simply import a Group food entry to own food log** User can further edit this entry once it is imported (e.g. to delete items he or she did not actually eat, or to add items)
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- Specify which entries to show** Specify a date range** Optional: categories of meals (breakfast, lunch, dinner, etc.) to display
- Specify level of detail to show** Choose between a summary or full details
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- Specify data range for statistics
- Specify the type of analytics desired. Can sort by trends in:** Proportions of different food groups** Food costs
- Calorie consumption
Possible errors:
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- Choice 1:** Receive invitation** Accept invitation
- Choice 2:** Locate Group** Request permission to join Group
Possible errors:
- Users can’t locate a desired Group
- Users may want to leave Groups they’ve joined
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- Specify a new food log entry
- Enter information pertaining to the food eaten, such as:** Type of meal (breakfast, lunch, dinner, snack, other)** Date
- What food items were eaten*** User can optionally choose this from the list of food in possession
- Optionally for each food item:
- Amount of item eaten
- Food group that item belongs to
- Calories
- Cost
- Submit information
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