Designed for Bulimia Patients
// More affordable and accessible treatment supervision tool to empower eating disordered people's recovery process
Team member: Ying He, Jiaqi Guo My Job: Survey, Interviews, Concept Design, Drawing Key Words: Bulimia, Auxiliary Tools: Adebe illustrator, Adobe XD, Artlantis
Introduction
Literature Research
Overview
Key Findings
BN patients are facing many challenges during the treatment process.
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In this project, BN patients can use smart spoons and APP to monitor
Many Bulimia Nervosa patients have a self-saving consciousness and have tried to seek for help.
their daily diet without being in the hospital. This will provide eating disorder patients with more convenient
20%
Turn to family or friends
90%
Online information
5%
Go to hospital
and lower-cost dietary supervision during the recovery process,
60%
and provide visual reference data for doctors' decision-making.
What is bulimia nervosa? Bulimia Nervosa is a serious, potentially life-threatening eating disorder characterized by
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a cycle of bingeing and compensatory behaviors such as self-induced vomiting designed
Bulimia Nervosa will be acompanied by many other serious problems like depression, communication disorders and etc.
to undo or compensate for the effects of binge eating.
70%
Chinese people have tried diet-
>54%
ing to lose weight
Depression
binging when dieting
7 million
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Chinese people suffer from Buli-
Only 35.4% of those with Bulimia Nervosa can receive treatment
Articles
Female Male
for people from all education bacgrounds
72% Education Background Middle School High School College
Most patients are among middle class
Income/month <1k 1k-20k >20k
65% Teenagers suffer more from Bulimia Nervosa
lonely
from Bulimia Nervosa
Common Gender
RIP
5%
Death
Losing Working Ability
together SHARE 20,000+ get rid of WHO 1,200,000+ HELP! 9,500,000+ friend SUPERVISE TEN YEARS
mia Nervosa
Views 67%
Communication Disorder
65%
While always hiding themselves in reality, many Bulimia Nervosa patients are anxious to share their feelings and experience in online pools. Followers
Females suffer more
75%
Adult Chineses have impulse of
>62%
35.4%
!
“I feel like this pool is like a family to me.” xfsaky, a regular vistor of Bulimia Nervosa pool in Tieba
Age 15-25 25-35 35-45
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Fat Phobia is a major cause for Bulimia Nervosa.