Student project highlights

Calories Assistant is an application program that helps obese and diabetes patients control their diets.

This system of software uses statistical data to calculate and recommend healthy diets for the patients. In comparison to many other diet-control softwares, they may help the users just for a short period of time. The reason is because most of those softwares do not collect statistics and so they simply give fixed and strict diet courses. Such programs will not change many patients’ eating misbehavior.

On the other hand, Calories Assistant is designed especially to resolve this issue. In contrast to other applications, Calories Assistant provides users detailed information on every dish and at the same time gives any other diet options. With such flexibility, users can take part of their own diet program that is best for each individual.

The design of the software is mainly focused on the ease of user interaction. It also has a mobile phone feature for greater convenience, so users can retrieve their diet information anytime. Moreover, Calories Assistant has an online community that users can share their diet menus and recipes

The software is developed with Java language with an architecture that any additional features can be easily modified and added by using the provided API.

Calories Assistant won the first prize from Java Jive Regional Challenge 2008—an Asia Pacific regional software design competition with Java language. The topic for this year competition was the software for health and education.

The team "Snooze Monkey” is composed of Mr.Sirisilp Kongsilp, Mr.Sara Sontisirikrit and Mr. Rapee Kamontalapiseg. They are all the third-year students in the Software Engineering program. The team was under the guidance of Dr. James Brucker, Dr. Chaiporn Jaikaeo and Associate Professor Panpiti Piamsa-nga of the Department of Computer Engineering, Kasetsart University.