Experience: Barriers and Opportunities of Wearables for Eating Research
Published in CHI, 2023
Summary: We synthesize lessons on deploying wearables for eating research, outlining barriers, opportunities, and design recommendations.
Abstract
Drawing on prior deployments and literature, we map a design space for eating-focused wearable studies spanning sensing modalities, annotation, compliance, privacy, and fairness. We identify recurrent pain points (e.g., ground-truth burden, motion artifacts) and propose pragmatic guidelines for study design and algorithm evaluation. The resulting framework supports more reliable, participant-centered methodologies for real-world dietary sensing. 