The system will be tested on around 200 secondary school students in Sweden and another set of children in the Netherlands.Seriously. A smiley face.
Sensors will be used to measure the speed at which food is eaten as well as how food is chewed.
The sensor comprises a scale connected to a portable computer or a smartphone. A plate of food is put on the scale and the rate at which it leaves the plate is recorded, with an audible warning if it is being eaten too quickly for the person to realise they are full.
Swiss firm CSEM is developing the other two sensors that will be used in the project. ActiSmile is a wearable sensor, which rewards the wearer with a smiley face when enough exercise has been done.
The firm is also designing an acoustic sensor, which will take the form of a wearable microphone, and record how the user chews food.
Yeah, that should compensate for the erroneous information, intrusive time and energy wasting bullshit, and public humiliation you force into those kids' lives...
Please go learn some endocrinology, you self-righteous twits.
