Excessive alcohol consumption is a growing health problem in the United States. Many smartphone applications track drinking habits to solve this problem; but most do not provide contextual data, which may cause a change in habit. This Major Qualifying Project focused on researching and developing a smartphone application that visualizes contextual data of a user's alcohol drinking habits, such as drinking locations, drinking times, and people drinking with. Data visualization presents data to users where recurrent patterns can be seen and not obvious information is apparent. Research steps included identifying alcohol context and charts to visualize those contexts. Surveys and focus groups were conducted to compile a set of visualizations into the mobile application AlcoContextualizer.

• This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

Creator

• Voltaire, Jules Andal
• Nguyen, Matthew Nam
• Lamsal, Rupak

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-032417-142004

Advisor

• Agu, Emmanuel O.

Year

• 2017

Date created

• 2017-03-24

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Computer Science

Rights statement

• In Copyright