The University of Rhode Island shares how a machine-learning-enabled wearable was developed to monitor and understand ingestive behaviors.
The research team included Kathleen Melanson, URI nutrition professor; Theodore Walls, URI psychology professor; Nathan DeSalvo, URI psychology graduate student; and Professor Edison Thomaz and graduate student Cody Arvonen from The University of Texas at Austin’s Cockrell School of Engineering. The group’s use of digital video and inertial motion sensors to understand the microstructure of ingestive behavior is detailed in an article published in the journal Nutrients in May.