Eliminating food waste through technology : for restaurants and cafes
With growing concern over food waste globally, greater attention is brought to technologies to reduce food waste. Singapore, being a modern city-state with a high population density, also faces the problem of increasing food waste. The current measures taken to reduce food waste in the retail sector...
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| author | Wong, Wan Ting |
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| description | With growing concern over food waste globally, greater attention is brought to technologies to reduce food waste. Singapore, being a modern city-state with a high population density, also faces the problem of increasing food waste. The current measures taken to reduce food waste in the retail sector in Singapore are relatively inadequate.
This project aims to introduce a mobile application, named Foodscover, designed to reduce food waste in the retail context by offering discounted surplus food from retailers to the general public. The application would provide a platform for retailers to upload surplus food items at a discounted price at the end of a shift. Users will be able to see all discounted food items and purchase them through the application. In order to determine the acceptance towards Foodscover, a user study based on the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) was conducted. This paper entails the development process of the application from the planning phase to the user study phase. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/1482042021-04-27T08:13:48Z Eliminating food waste through technology : for restaurants and cafes Wong, Wan Ting Owen Noel Newton Fernando School of Computer Science and Engineering OFernando@ntu.edu.sg Engineering::Computer science and engineering With growing concern over food waste globally, greater attention is brought to technologies to reduce food waste. Singapore, being a modern city-state with a high population density, also faces the problem of increasing food waste. The current measures taken to reduce food waste in the retail sector in Singapore are relatively inadequate. This project aims to introduce a mobile application, named Foodscover, designed to reduce food waste in the retail context by offering discounted surplus food from retailers to the general public. The application would provide a platform for retailers to upload surplus food items at a discounted price at the end of a shift. Users will be able to see all discounted food items and purchase them through the application. In order to determine the acceptance towards Foodscover, a user study based on the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) was conducted. This paper entails the development process of the application from the planning phase to the user study phase. Bachelor of Engineering (Computer Science) 2021-04-27T08:13:47Z 2021-04-27T08:13:47Z 2021 Final Year Project (FYP) Wong, W. T. (2021). Eliminating food waste through technology : for restaurants and cafes. Final Year Project (FYP), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. https://hdl.handle.net/10356/148204 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/148204 en application/pdf Nanyang Technological University |
| spellingShingle | Engineering::Computer science and engineering Wong, Wan Ting Eliminating food waste through technology : for restaurants and cafes |
| title | Eliminating food waste through technology : for restaurants and cafes |
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| title_short | Eliminating food waste through technology : for restaurants and cafes |
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| topic | Engineering::Computer science and engineering |
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