Welcome to Brain Food!

The right fuel for your brain can help you win the fight against homework assignments and crazy exams, but it's not easy to keep track of your eating habits when the next deadline is always around the corner. Brain Food was made to provide students with a quick resource for healthy eating ideas, and to give students at UH Manoa information on how to buy healthy foods and ingredients near campus.

As the average college student has limited time and financial means to support healthy eating in the name of brainpower, Brain Food also lists both the estimated time needed to follow a recipe from start to finish, and the estimated cost of recipe ingredients.

Use Brain Food and activate your brain's beast mode!

Guided Tour

Take a tour of Brain Food in action with screenshots and descriptions of our pages.

Landing/Home Page

Brain Food requires logging in through a University of Hawaii user account.

Upon logging in, Brain Food Girl gives you some suggestions for navigating the site.

Food List Page

The Food List page shows a list of all the healthy recipes in our database. Click on a food image to view a specific recipe.

Recipe Page

The Food Item page shows that item's recipe in detail, and also lists the username of the recipe contributer.

Add-Food Page

Users can add new recipes to our database! All fields must be filled, else the application will tell users they are missing information.

Edit-Food Page

Users can also edit the recipes they uploaded. Access this page by clicking on the pencil icon to the right of the header of food item pages that you have created.

Vendors Page

Look up places to buy ingredients for healthy cooking, and also find locations that serve brain-boosting meals!

Place Page

Our current working version for individual food locations pulls vendor information from our database. It is under development to include more detailed information about each vendor's operations.

Map Page

Clicking on a vendor's distance from UH Manoa will bring up a Google Map page that shows the vendor's location. Currently under development.

Place Page version 2.0

This is what our final version of individual vendor pages will look like. You can access this beta version by clicking on the "Market" link on the top navbar. It includes a working comment function that you can use to add a quick review or general comment for the given location.

Add Vendor Page

Our Add Vendor page allows users to add new brain food locations to our database.

Account Page

Our user account page is currently in development.

Edit Account Page

Our edit account page is currently in development.

Search Page

Our web app's search functionality is currently under development.

Developer Guide

• Meteor must be installed on your system
• Create a directory where you would like to store brain-food
• Download brain-food to that directory by running the following code in your terminal

git clone https://github.com/brain-food/brain-food.git

• Make your way to the app directory by running

cd brain-food/app

• Once there, run the following code

meteor npm install

• Finally, running this last bit of code should have the app running at http://localhost:3000/

meteor --settings ../config/settings.development.json

Initial User Study

Brain-Food's user study recruited UH users rmdc, kfkogasa, dexterjn, sagpaoa, and dionie as voluntary subjects for the testing of Brain-Food's user satisfaction. These test subjects were chosen by Brain-Food developers to optimize feedback variety, as subjects included students majoring in computer science as well as other areas such as mechanical engineering and biochemistry. The study was done while watching each user interact with the site while providing them encouragement for navigating the important aspects of our application, e.g. being told to add a recipe or a new location. The user then wrote down their thoughts, while the spectating Brain-Food contributer also took notes on what the user was doing.

Many users had feedback that was focused positively on the theme and site artwork. Some users did say that "it’s too boring," and that the theme was redundant without moving art. On the user interface side, our users only had problems with features that had not fully been implemented yet, such as missing database integration with certain areas of the site. Armed with insights gained from Brain-Food's growing UH user community, we will look to release a new patch that will level up your Brain-Food experience to the max!

Milestones

Work in progress:

• Database integration for Place page 2.0 and Account page
• Search functionality
• Local image uploading
• Enhanced Google Map functionality
• Improved comment functionality including comments on recipes
• Support/contact method

Authors and Contributors

Kea Uehara @KeaUehara
Clint Morimoto @clint-morimoto
Steven Braun @Steven-Braun
Riley Miyamoto @RileyMiyamoto