Nudging Grocery Shoppers to Make Healthier Choices

Abstract

Despite the rampant increase in obesity rates and concomitant increases in rates of mortality from heart disease, cancer and diabetes, getting the general public to adopt a healthy diet has proven to be challenging for a variety of reasons. In this paper, we describe Foodle, a research project aimed at providing automated, personalized and goal-driven dietary guidance to users based on their grocery receipt data, by leveraging the availability of digital receipts for grocery store purchases. We discuss challenges faced, the current state of the project, and directions for future work.