{"id":847,"date":"2012-03-30T15:45:56","date_gmt":"2012-03-30T14:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/?p=847"},"modified":"2012-10-31T15:31:31","modified_gmt":"2012-10-31T15:31:31","slug":"apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/2012\/03\/apps\/","title":{"rendered":"Apps and Healthy Shopping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/kbs\/community\/staff\/profiles\/souza_monteiro_diogo.html\">Dr Diogo Souza Monteiro<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/kbs\/community\/staff\/profiles\/lowe_ben.html\">Dr Ben Lowe<\/a> (Kent Business School) and Professor Iain Fraser (Economics) have won a British Academy research grant for a project investigating how the use of mobile technologies might help consumers make healthier food choices when doing their shopping in supermarkets.<\/p>\n<p>This project will determine whether technologies \u2013 such as supermarket self-scanners or smartphone apps &#8211; can aid consumers making choices over three key dimensions of food choice: nutrition, taste and convenience.<\/p>\n<p>Findings are likely to interest decision makers in the food industry, namely retailers, and public health.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018The use of mobile technology to enhance nutritional information provision for healthy diet choices\u2019 runs from April2012 until April 2013 and is supported by a \u00a37,400 British Academy research grant.<\/p>\n<p>For more information please contact <a href=\"mailto:D.M.Souza-Monteiro@kent.ac.uk\">D.M.Souza-Monteiro@kent.ac.uk<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Diogo Souza Monteiro, Dr Ben Lowe (Kent Business School) and Professor Iain Fraser (Economics) have won a British Academy research grant for a project &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/2012\/03\/apps\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2299,"featured_media":848,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9890,124,9889,9891,9111,9883,19166],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=847"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1769,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847\/revisions\/1769"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}