NUT: Visualizing the Nutritional Content of What We Eat

I present NUT, a tool for understanding the nutritional content of what we eat. The project consists of a rapid prototyping and analysis phase, as well as a design study documenting the development of the NUT prototype. The goal of NUT is to support users in making healthy choices about what to eat by visualizing nutritional information in the context of the whole food. This report outlines the domain, task and data used in NUT, as well as an overview of the visualization solution and the components of the application. The strengths and limitations of the current implementation are discussed, along with immediate next steps and potential areas for future work. A work-in-progress version of NUT can be found at www.cs.ubc.ca/~jqdawson