DailyDigest
Group Members
- Chris "8-Ball" Reyes
- Connie Chan
- Jessica Lin
- TA: Tsung-Hsiang (Sean) Chang
Problem Statement
There are many applications that allow people to track what they’re eating and how much they spend on food. Being largely unaccustomed to managing their entire diet, MIT undergraduates would especially benefit from these services. However, none of the currently available applications fulfill the needs of MIT undergraduates, who live in diverse living arrangements (i.e. dorms, fraternities, sororities, and independent living groups). Living groups often have some sort of meal plan in which individuals do not have direct control over what they are served. This makes it inefficient for students to update their food tracking applications, since they would need to remember to do so after they eat. Another feature that many food trackers lack is the ability to record the cost of their food. Some students use a separate tool to manage their finances, but having to input related information in two places is inefficient. When an application starts to demand too much effort, users stop using it. DailyDigest intends to solve these problems by making these tasks as effortless as possible without sacrificing users’ control over their data. It will have the basic functionality of a food tracker, but will make it easier to record meals eaten in groups and will include a cost-tracker. It will also provide some analytics so that students can monitor their nutrition.