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Development a Mobile System Based on the Harris-Benedict Equation to Indicate the Caloric Intake

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This project is focused on the design and development of a mobile application that records the daily food intake for a person, and the caloric based-content indicates that it is the amount of calories consumed. To perform the calculation of Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR) Harris Benedict equation is used, this method of calculation is based on age, sex, height and weight. The estimated value is multiplied by a number corresponding to the level of activity of the individual. The resulting number is the recommended kilo calories to maintain current body weight daily intake. The system will have two modules, one is that which manages the data capture and delivery for storage. This in turn consists of a mobile application with a simple user interface where you can enter data and prepares to send them to the storage service. In addition, the App can view the recorded data and display it on the screen data queries.

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The first author is member of the National Research Investigator award (SNI) from the SENACYT as a National Research I and the second author is an Engineer in Computer Systems of the Technological University of Panama.

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  1. GITCE Research Lab, Technological University of Panama, Chiriquí, Panama

    Vladimir Villarreal & Manuel Otero

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  1. University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las Palmas, Spain

    Carmelo R. García

  2. Departamento de Estadistica, Universidad La Laguna, La Laguna, Spain

    Pino Caballero-Gil

  3. Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, USA

    Mike Burmester

  4. University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las Palmas, Spain

    Alexis Quesada-Arencibia

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Villarreal, V., Otero, M. (2016). Development a Mobile System Based on the Harris-Benedict Equation to Indicate the Caloric Intake. In: García, C., Caballero-Gil, P., Burmester, M., Quesada-Arencibia, A. (eds) Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence. UCAmI 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10069. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48746-5_25

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