Running head: LAB 4 – NUTRICIPE PROTOTYPE USER MANUAL
Lab 4 – Nutricipe Prototype User Manual
Blue Team
CS411
Professor Janet Brunelle
Old Dominion University
December 9, 2010
V4.1
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Table of Contents
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INTRODUCTION (Olga) ........................................................................................................4
PRODUCT FEATURES (Adam) ............................................................................................6
GETTING STARTED ...........................................................................................................10
3.1
3.2
3.3
3.4
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Required Software (Mark) .......................................................................................................... 10
Navigating to the Nutricipe Website (Mark) .............................................................................. 10
Login (Ben) ................................................................................................................................. 10
Create Account (Ben).................................................................................................................. 10
USER INTERFACE ..............................................................................................................10
4.1
4.2
4.3
4.4
Account Maintenance (Ben) ....................................................................................................... 11
Profile Set up and Maintenance (Ben) ........................................................................................ 11
Recommendations Page (Olga) ................................................................................................... 11
Meal Builder Page....................................................................................................................... 14
4.4.1
4.4.2
4.4.3
4.4.4
4.4.5
4.4.5
4.5
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Tracking Page ............................................................................................................................. 38
4.5.1 Tracking Page Navigation........................................................................................38
4.5.2 Goal Tracking Report (Olga) ...................................................................................39
4.4.1 Food Tracking Report (Erik) ...................................................................................40
ADMINISTRATOR INTERFACE .......................................................................................42
5.1
5.2
5.3
5.4
5.5
5.6
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Meal Builder Page Navigation (John)......................................................................14
Ingredients Search (John) ........................................................................................15
Recipe Search (Adam) .............................................................................................17
Adding Recipes to Meal (John) ...............................................................................22
Adding Ingredients to Meal (John) ..........................................................................28
Complete Meal (John and Olga) ..............................................................................31
Create Account Option (Or’Sasha) ............................................................................................. 42
Edit User Option (Or’Sasha) ....................................................................................................... 43
Deactivate Account Option (Or’Sasha) ...................................................................................... 45
Activate Account Option (Or’Sasha) .......................................................................................... 46
View Satisfaction Survey Report Option (Mark)........................................................................ 47
User Satisfaction Survey Report Display (Mark) ....................................................................... 47
ERROR MESSAGES (Cole) .................................................................................................47
GLOSSARYOF TERMS .......................................................................................................47
REFERENCES ......................................................................................................................49
List of Figures
Figure 1. Prototype major functional component diagram ..............................................................8
Figure 2. Nutricipe Site Map .........................................................................................................10
Figure X. Recommendation Tab Display ......................................................................................12
Figure X. Daily Caloric Intake Display .........................................................................................12
Figure X. Food Group Recommendation Display .........................................................................13
Figure X. Nutritional Goals Recommendations Display with No Goals Selected ........................13
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Figure X. Nutritional Goals Recommendations Display ...............................................................13
Figure X. Meal Builder Tab Display .............................................................................................15
Figure X. Empty Meal Display ......................................................................................................15
Figure X. Ingredient Search Prompt ..............................................................................................16
Figure X. Ingredient Search with Typed Ingredient ......................................................................16
Figure X. Ingredient Display .........................................................................................................16
Figure X. Recipe Search Prompt ...................................................................................................17
Figure X. Initiating Recipe Prompt without Nutritional Goals......................................................17
Figure X. Unfiltered Search Results for Ingredient Turkey ..........................................................18
Figure X. Initiating Recipe Search with Nutritional Goals............................................................18
Figure X. Filtered Search Results for Ingredient Turkey ..............................................................19
Figure X. Initiating Recipe Search by Pantry without Nutritional Goals ......................................20
Figure X. Unfiltered Search Results for Ingredients Found in Pantry ...........................................21
Figure X. Initiating Recipe Search by Pantry with Nutritional Goals ...........................................21
Figure X. Filtered Search Results for Ingredients Found in Pantry ...............................................22
Figure X. Your Meal with Recipe Display ....................................................................................23
Figure X. Recipe Nutritional Card Display ...................................................................................24
Figure X. Recipe Nutritional Card Overview ................................................................................25
Figure X. Recipe Nutritional Card: Ingredients Display ...............................................................26
Figure X. Recipe Nutritional Card: Directions Display.................................................................26
Figure X. Recipe Nutritional Card: Nutritional Facts Display ......................................................27
Figure X. Recipe Nutritional Card: Goals Display ........................................................................27
Figure X. Duplicated Entry in Your Meal Display ........................................................................28
Figure X. Your Meal with Ingredient Display ...............................................................................29
Figure X. Ingredient Nutritional Card Display ..............................................................................30
Figure X. Complete Your Meal Display ........................................................................................31
Figure X. Meal Card Display .........................................................................................................32
Figure X. Meal Card: Add Meal to History Display .....................................................................33
Figure X. Meal Card: Selected Meal Display ................................................................................33
Figure X. Meal Card: Nutritional Facts Display............................................................................34
Figure X. Meal Card: Goals Display .............................................................................................35
Figure X. Meal Card: Calendar Display ........................................................................................35
Figure X. Meal Options Display ....................................................................................................36
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Figure X. Empty Shopping List Display........................................................................................37
Figure X. Shopping List Display ...................................................................................................37
Figure X. Tracking Tab Display ....................................................................................................38
Figure X. Goals Tracking Timeframe Options Display.................................................................39
Figure X. Goals Tracking Timeframe Selection Display ..............................................................40
Figure X. Goals Tracking: No Meals Selected Display.................................................................40
Figure X. Goals Tracking Report...................................................................................................40
Figure X. Food Tracking: No Meals Selected Display ..................................................................41
Figure X. Food Tracking Display ..................................................................................................41
Figure X. Administrative menu: Create User ................................................................................42
Figure X. Administrative option: Create User Display .................................................................43
Figure X. Administrative menu: Edit User ....................................................................................44
Figure X. Administrative menu: Edit User Selection Display .......................................................44
Figure X. Administrative option: Edit User Display .....................................................................45
Figure X. Administrative menu: Deactivate User Selection Display ............................................46
Figure X. Administrative menu: Activate User Selection Display ................................................46
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INTRODUCTION (Olga)
All humans require nutrients in specific proportions to balance their body’s systems and
to achieve optimal health. Unfortunately, according to the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
(n.d.), 99% of Americans are not getting the daily nutrition considered necessary to maintain
good health. According to the USDA Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion (2005), only
10% of Americans have good diets, 74% need to improve their diets, and 16% of people in the
U.S. have poor diets.
People are unaware that unhealthy diets can lead to health problems. According to the
World Cancer Research Fund (2009), 41% of people in America do not know that there is a link
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between what they eat and cancer, 23% do not know that unhealthy diets can lead to heart
diseases, and 10% of people in the U.S. do not even understand that unhealthy diets can cause
health problems. Some people who have already developed health problems do not know that
their diets should be changed based on their current health conditions. Even those people who are
interested in eating healthy face problems with developing their proper diets. 60% of all people
in America find it difficult and confusing to learn about nutrition and follow all the guidelines
(Sansolo, 2004).
Because people do not consume the necessary nutrients, there is an increasing concern
among health professionals regarding the cumulative effects of nutrition. Cumulative effects are
the results of something that has been done repeatedly over an extended period of time. For
example, eating saturated fats in excess for many years can lead to heart attacks. Years of
overeating can cause obesity and may contribute to type two diabetes, bladder disease, foot
problems, certain cancers, and even personal disorders (Roth, 2007).
When nutrients are extremely scarce in the diet for an extended period of time, deficiency
diseases can occur. Osteomalacia is one of the most common deficiency diseases, which affects
70% of Americans. This deficiency disease is caused by a lack of calcium and vitamin D.
Another common deficiency disease in the U.S. is iron deficiency, which is common among
women and children. To avoid deficiency diseases, or improve an individual’s current state of
health, everyone should consume the proper quantity of nutrients (Roth, 2007).
There are many reasons that getting daily nutrients necessary for good health and
organizing a proper diet is problematic. A variety of choices, inconsistent information about
nutrition, and a lack of time are the some of the major causes. People simply do not know what
they need to eat and how they need to prepare the ingredients they have on hand. There are many
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foods that look appealing and that are fast to buy and easy to prepare, but many of the
ingredients in these convenience foods will lead to health problems in the future. Unfortunately,
people lack time to plan their meals, lack knowledge of healthy foods, and buy foods that will
not benefit their individual health needs.
Nutricipe is a meal planning tool conceived by the Old Dominion University (ODU)
CS410 Blue Group. It is designed to facilitate healthier eating, provide education about healthy
food choices, offer nutritional advice based on individual profile, preferences, values, suggest
healthy and delicious recipes with nutritional facts, and generate shopping lists. Nutricipe helps
people save time by allowing them to organize a daily routine of preparing wholesome meals and
including variety of foods based on personal needs and goals in their diet. Nutricipe is aimed at
individuals who are interested in improving their current health conditions and those who are
interested in maintaining good health by eating the right meal, the right way, every time.
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PRODUCT FEATURES (Adam)
This section will describe the major components of the Nutricipe prototype. Below are
technical overviews of each function component of the prototype. Following the descriptions is
Figure 1, the prototype major functional component diagram, representing how all of the parts
interact, and Figure 2, the Nutricipe prototype website sitemap.
Nutricipe is for people that want to learn more about their diets and improve the way they
eat in the process. Nutricipe accomplishes this by assisting customers in organizing proper diets
and describing the customers’ needed daily nutrients based on their individual needs and
preferences. It also provides a means for tracking progress toward user-defined goals.
The prototype is comprised of a database, algorithms and graphical user interfaces. The
USDA publishes information about nutritional content: it is stored in a database called the SR22.
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Nutricipe will access a nutrient database populated with this SR22, as well as a database of
recipes from the USDA and the user profile database. Nutricipe will also access lists the user
develops that contain a cache of on-hand ingredients.
Nutricipe will contain algorithms for calorie needs, food variety, nutritional content,
recipe selection, shopping list, food tracking, goal tracking and food combining. The Calorie
Needs algorithm calculates required calorie and nutritional intake based on the user’s personal
profile, like activity level and weight. The Food Variety algorithm recommends food items
based on the user profile. The Nutritional Content calculator returns nutritional values based on
the data provided in the USDA nutrient database. The Recipe Selection algorithm selects
Nutricipe recipes based on the user profile, ingredients the user already has on hand and can even
search by specific ingredient. The Shopping List generator creates a shopping list based on an
already selected meal, time of year and location. The Food Tracking algorithm tracks and
reports on how the user is meeting their goals over time. The Goal Tracking algorithm displays
to the user how well the meal they are selecting is meeting their goals.
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Figure 1. Prototype major functional component diagram
The Nutricipe prototype is an Internet-based solution. Users will be able to experience
Nutricipe functionality through the Nutricipe website’s graphical user interfaces. Simplicity and
clarity are forefront in development to maintain a website that is as easy-to-use as possible.
After becoming satisfied with their profile settings, users may build their meals. There is
an option to have Nutricipe consider ingredients that are on-hand; then the user creates a meal by
selecting raw ingredients or individual recipes provided by Nutricipe. Once a meal is complete
to the user’s satisfaction, it is added to the user’s profile and stored in the Nutricipe database.
The user’s calculated percentage of progress toward their goals are displayed and they can
generate a shopping list with the ingredients they do not have on-hand.
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The user’s daily calorie need is calculated based on USDA guidelines. This daily calorie
need is calculated from the user’s age, weight and activity level. The calculated recommended
calorie need is stored to the user profile in the Nutricipe database.
The food variety report generates a list of foods that meet provided nutritional guidelines.
It will also meet the daily calorie needs of the user. This is where foods that are nutrient-rich
may be recommended to the user, based upon USDA guidelines.
The recipe search generates a list of recipes based on a user’s nutritional goals or the list
of ingredients in the user’s pantry. Recipes that contribute to the user’s nutritional goals are
displayed with the percentage of the user’s daily goals the recipe meets. If no recipes are found,
the user is prompted to modify their search.
The results of the food variety report and the recipe search report are sent to the meal
builder. Recipes, ingredients on hand and/or recommended foods are added to create a meal.
The goal percentages are displayed so the user can track what they need to add or remove to
make a complete meal.
Individual recipes may be combined with other recipes, raw ingredients and prepared
ingredients. The nutritional value and daily goal percentages are displayed for the selected
individual recipes, raw and prepared ingredients, as well as the daily goal percent for the entire
meal.
Figure 2 shows the hierarchy of the Nutricipe website. Authentication is required to view
most of the content. The About Nutricipe, Registration and Contact Us pages are available to
users regardless of their authentication status.
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Figure 2. Nutricipe Site Map
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GETTING STARTED
3.1
Required Software (Mark)
3.2
Navigating to the Nutricipe Website (Mark)
3.3
Login (Ben)
3.4
Create Account (Ben)
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USER INTERFACE
All pages for the website will use a common CSS file to maintain a standard look and
feel throughout the site. Basic navigation will occur through a horizontal navigation bar near the
top of the page, under the Nutricipe logo. On the right hand side of the screen, the login form is
available, and actual content will fill the remaining area. Major content will include account
maintenance, profile, recommendations, meal builder, and history each with further subsections.
All content is rendered using a combination of HTML, PHP, and Javascript technologies and
using a framework developed by team member Cole Davis.
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Account Maintenance (Ben)
4.2
Profile Set up and Maintenance (Ben)
4.3
Recommendations Page (Olga)
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The recommendations page enables the Nutricipe user to view the Daily Caloric Intake
Report, the Food Group Recommendations Report, and the Nutritional Goals Recommendations
Report. The Daily Caloric Needs Report displays how many calories the Nutricipe customer
needs to consume daily. Figure XX illustrates this report. The displayed calculations are made
based on the customer’s age, gender, activity level from the user profile, and the USDA
guidelines. The Food Group Recommendations Report includes information about how much
grain, vegetable, fruit, milk, meat and bean, and oil the Nutricipe customer needs to consume
based on his or her age, gender, and activity level from the user profile, according to the USDA
guidelines. Figure XX illustrates this report. A list of recommended foods is based on the
nutritional goals and dislikes that the Nutricipe user specifies in his or her profile. This list is
displayed by the Nutritional Goals Recommendations Report. Figure XX illustrates this report.
To generate these reports, do the following steps:
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Step 1: Click on the recommendations tab.
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Figure X. Recommendation Tab Display
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Step 2: View the Daily Caloric Intake Report.
Figure X. Daily Caloric Intake Display
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Step 3: View the Food Group Recommendations Report.
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Figure X. Food Group Recommendation Display
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Step 4: If no nutritional goals were selected while populating the user profile, the
appropriate message is displayed.
Figure X. Nutritional Goals Recommendations Display with No Goals Selected
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Step 5: If nutritional goals were selected during the profile population, view the
Nutritional Goals Recommendations Report.
Figure X. Nutritional Goals Recommendations Display
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Step 6: Change the user profile (see section XX) and start from Step 1 to generate
the appropriate recommendation reports if the personal information that these reports
depend on has been changed. The personal information may include:
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Age
o
Gender
o
Activity level
o
Nutritional goals
o
Dislikes
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Meal Builder Page
The meal builder page offers various features to the Nutricipe user. It enables the user to
perform various recipe searches and allows searching for single ingredients. The user can select a
recipe and view its ingredients, cooking instructions, nutritional information, and percentages of
daily nutritional goals. The user can also select a single ingredient and view its nutritional
information and percentages of daily nutritional goals. The selected recipes and single
ingredients can be added to the meal. Once the user is satisfied with the built meal, he or she can
view nutritional information and percentages of daily nutritional goals for the entire meal. The
user can also select a date in the provided calendar to specify when he or she wants to consume
the meal and save that meal to the meal history. If the user does not like the meal, he or she can
add or remove any meal ingredients. The user can also save the current meal for multiple days.
When the customized meal is saved to the meal history, the user can view it again and can also
generate the shopping list.
4.4.1 Meal Builder Page Navigation (John)
To navigate to the meal builder page, do the following step:

Step 1: Click on the meal builder tab.
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Figure X. Meal Builder Tab Display

Step 2: View Your Meal. Notice the Your Meal section displays a message
stating it is empty. This is where recipes and ingredients will be displayed as you make a
meal.
Figure X. Empty Meal Display
4.4.2 Ingredients Search (John)
To search for ingredients, do the following steps:
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Step 1: View the Ingredient Search section. The ingredient search prompt will be
displayed.
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Figure X. Ingredient Search Prompt

Step 2: To perform a search enter the name of a raw ingredient in the textbox and
click submit. The results will be displayed below the meal builder.
Figure X. Ingredient Search with Typed Ingredient

Step 3: Each ingredient returned will have an image, name, link to add ingredient
to Your Meal, and link to the nutritional card of the ingredient.
Figure X. Ingredient Display

Step 4: If no results are found, a message will be displayed instead.
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4.4.3 Recipe Search (Adam)
To search for recipes, do the following steps:

Step 1: View the Recipe Search section, a text box for entering an ingredient to
search recipes for, a checkbox to enable searching by nutritional goals and a
checkbox for searching by ingredients in the user’s pantry. The checkbox for
searching by nutritional goals is checked by default.
Figure X. Recipe Search Prompt
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Step 2: To search recipes, the user types the name of an ingredient into the
ingredient text box and clicks the search link. For now, uncheck the search by
nutritional goals checkbox before clicking search.
Figure X. Initiating Recipe Prompt without Nutritional Goals
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Step 3: Recipes that contain the ingredient that was entered in the text box are
displayed to the screen with the recipe name, preparation directions and a link to
add the recipe the meal. Return to the Recipe Search Screen.
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Figure X. Unfiltered Search Results for Ingredient Turkey

Step 3: Notice that the search by nutritional goals checkbox is checked again.
Leave it enabled and search by the same ingredient.
Figure X. Initiating Recipe Search with Nutritional Goals

Step 4: Recipes that contain the ingredient that was entered in the text box are
displayed to the screen with the recipe name, preparation directions and a link to
add the recipe the meal. Notice that the order of recipes being returned is
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different from the ingredient-based search that was done without considering
nutritional goals. A percentage is displayed in the upper-right corner of each
recipe for how well the user’s nutritional goals are met by this recipe; first the
average intake percentage, then the individual nutrient intake percentages. The
recipes are listed in descending order based on the average intake percentage
value. If a recipe does not contribute to at least one of the user’s nutritional goals
it will not be displayed. Return to the Recipe Search Screen.
Figure X. Filtered Search Results for Ingredient Turkey
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Step 5: If the user has built a pantry-list, they may search by the contents of their
pantry instead of a specific ingredient. Uncheck the search by nutritional goals
checkbox and check the search by ingredients in my pantry checkbox. Clear the
ingredient search textbox and click search.
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Figure X. Initiating Recipe Search by Pantry without Nutritional Goals
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Step 6: Recipes that contain at least one ingredient found in the user’s pantry are
displayed to the screen with the recipe name, preparation directions and a link to
add the recipe the meal. Return to the Recipe Search Screen.
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Figure X. Unfiltered Search Results for Ingredients Found in Pantry

Step 7: If the user has built a pantry-list, they may search by the contents of their
pantry instead of a specific ingredient. Leave the search by nutritional goals
checkbox checked and check the search by ingredients in my pantry checkbox.
Clear the ingredient search textbox and click search.
Figure X. Initiating Recipe Search by Pantry with Nutritional Goals
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Step 8: Recipes that contain at least one ingredient found in the user’s pantry are
displayed to the screen with the recipe name, preparation directions and a link to
add the recipe to the meal. Notice that the order of recipes being returned is
different from the pantry-based search that was done without considering
nutritional goals. A percentage is displayed in the upper-right corner of each
recipe for how well the user’s nutritional goals are met by this recipe; first the
average intake percentage, then the individual nutrient intake percentages. The
recipes are listed in descending order based on the average intake percentage
value. If a recipe does not contribute to at least one of the user’s nutritional goals
it will not be displayed. Return to the Recipe Search Screen.
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Figure X. Filtered Search Results for Ingredients Found in Pantry
4.4.4 Adding Recipes to Meal (John)
To add recipes to the meal and remove them from the meal, do the following steps:

Step 1: Perform a recipe search, and add one to your meal.

Step 2: View the content of “Your Meal”. The recipe selected, an option to
remove the recipe, and a link to complete your meal will be displayed.
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Figure X. Your Meal with Recipe Display
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Step 3: Click on the recipe name or image. You will be directed to the nutritional
card for that recipe.
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Figure X. Recipe Nutritional Card Display

Step 4: View the nutritional card for the recipe selected. It will contain the recipe
name, image, ingredients, cooking instructions, nutritional facts table, goal percentages
table, and a link to add this recipe to your meal.
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Figure X. Recipe Nutritional Card Overview
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Step 5: The recipe name, image, and link to add the recipe to Your Meal is
displayed at the top of the page.
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Step 6: Ingredients will list all the ingredients in that meal.
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Figure X. Recipe Nutritional Card: Ingredients Display
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Step 7: Directions will list the cooking instructions to cook the recipe.
Figure X. Recipe Nutritional Card: Directions Display

Step 8: Under the Nutritional Facts section, the nutritional facts table for the
recipe will be displayed.
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Figure X. Recipe Nutritional Card: Nutritional Facts Display
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Step 9: Under the Goals section, the nutritional percentage of daily goals table
will be displayed.
Figure X. Recipe Nutritional Card: Goals Display
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Step 10: Click on “add this recipe to meal” to add recipe to the meal.
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Step 11: View Your Meal. An error message stating this recipe is already in Your
Meal is displayed because users cannot have two recipes that are the same in their meal.
Figure X. Duplicated Entry in Your Meal Display
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Step 12: Click on “remove this recipe”, and view Your Meal. The recipe is
removed and a message is displayed stating that Your Meal is currently empty (see
Figure X).
4.4.5 Adding Ingredients to Meal (John)
To add ingredients to the meal and remove them from the meal, do the following steps:

Step 1: Perform an ingredient search, and add one to Your Meal.

Step 2: View Your Meal. The ingredient selected, an option to remove the
ingredient, and a link to complete your meal will be displayed.
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Figure X. Your Meal with Ingredient Display
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Step 3: Click on the ingredient name or image. You will be directed to the
nutritional card for that ingredient.
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Figure X. Ingredient Nutritional Card Display
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Step 4: View the nutritional card for the ingredient. It will contain the ingredient
image, ingredient name, nutritional facts table, goal percentages table, and a link to add
the ingredient to Your Meal.

Step 5: The ingredient image, name, and link to add ingredient will be displayed
at the top of the nutritional card.

Step 6: Under the Nutritional Facts, the nutritional facts table for this ingredient
will be displayed for this ingredient.
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Step 7: Under the Goals, the percentage of daily goals table for this ingredient
will be displayed for this recipe.
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Step 8: View Your Meal. An error message stating this ingredient is already in
Your Meal is displayed because only users cannot have more than one of the same
ingredients.
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Step 9: Click on the “remove this ingredient” link. View Your Meal. A message
displaying that Your Meal is empty will be displayed.
4.4.5 Complete Meal (John and Olga)
To complete your meal, do the following steps:
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Step 1: Perform a recipe search, and add one to your meal.
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Step 2: Perform an ingredient search, and add one to Your Meal.

Step 3: Click on the “Complete Meal” link. You will be directed to the Meal
Card Display.
Figure X. Complete Your Meal Display

Step 4: View the Meal Card Display. You will have Meal Options, Selected
Meal, Nutritional Facts, and Nutritional Goals options.
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Figure X. Meal Card Display

Step 5: Under Meal Options you can view your current meal options. Right now
you will only be able to add this meal to your history.
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Figure X. Meal Card: Add Meal to History Display
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Step 6: Under Selected Meal your current select meal will be displayed. All
recipes and ingredients will be displayed with an image, link to remove the meal, and link
to its nutritional card.
Figure X. Meal Card: Selected Meal Display
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Step 7: Under Nutritional Facts, the nutritional facts table will display the total
nutritional facts for the meal.
Figure X. Meal Card: Nutritional Facts Display
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Step 8: Under Nutritional Goals, the percentage of nutritional goals table for the
whole meal will be displayed.
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Figure X. Meal Card: Goals Display
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Step 9: To save meals go to Meal Options. Click in the text box, and a calendar
will popup. Click on the day you are going to eat the meal. Then click submit.
Figure X. Meal Card: Calendar Display
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Step 10: View the meal card. Meal Options, Selected Meal, Nutritional
Information, and Goals sections are all there. Selected Meal, Nutritional Information,
and Goals are the same as before.
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Step 11: Under Meal Options a message will display that you have successfully
added the meal, and there will be four new options there: add this meal for another day,
create a new meal, add this meal for another day, or generate a shopping list.
Figure X. Meal Options Display
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Step 12: Click on make a new meal. This will direct you to Meal Builder.
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Step 13: Click on Add this meal for another day. This will direct you to the
display in from step 4.
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Step 14: Click on edit the meal to add for another day. This will direct you to the
Meal Builder with the current selected meal.
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Step 15: Click on the Generate Shopping List link to generate a Shopping List for
the selected meal. Your Shopping List will be displayed above Meal Options.
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Step 16: If no additional ingredients besides pantry ingredients are needed for the
selected meal, the appropriate message will be displayed.
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Figure X. Empty Shopping List Display
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Step 17: If additional ingredients besides pantry ingredients are needed for the
selected meal, view the Shopping List content.
Figure X. Shopping List Display
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Tracking Page
The history page enables the Nutricipe user to view the Food Tracking Report and Goal
Tracking Report. The user must select a specific timeframe to generate these reports. When the
timeframe is selected, the Food Tracking Report will output all the meals that have been
consumed in the specified timeframe. When the user clicks on the meal name, it will take him or
her to a page that displays the selected meal in more detail. The Goal Tracking Report will
display how the user has been meeting his or her nutritional goals based on the meals that he or
she has been consumed in the specified timeframe.
4.5.1 Tracking Page Navigation
To generate these reports, do the following steps:
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Step 1: Click on the tracking tab.
Figure X. Tracking Tab Display
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Step 2: Select the specified timeframe: 1 week back, 2 weeks back, 1 month, next
week, next 2 weeks, or next month.
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Step 3: Click on the select button to generate the reports.
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Step 4: To generate new reports with a different timeframe, return to step 2.
4.5.2 Goal Tracking Report (Olga)
To use the Goal Tracking Report, do the following steps:
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Step 1: To list percentages of nutritional goals in a specific timeframe, select a
time frame (1 week back, 2 weeks back, 1 month back, next week, next 2 weeks, or next
month) under the Goals Tracking heading.
Figure X. Goals Tracking Timeframe Options Display
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Step 2: If no nutritional goals were selected while populating the user profile, the
appropriate message is displayed.
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Figure X. Goals Tracking Timeframe Selection Display
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Step 3: If no meals were previously saved, the appropriate message is displayed.
Figure X. Goals Tracking: No Meals Selected Display
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Step 4: If nutritional goals were selected during the profile population and meals
were previously stored, view the Goal Tracking Report.
Figure X. Goals Tracking Report
4.4.1 Food Tracking Report (Erik)
To use the Food Tracking Report, do the following steps:
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Step 1: To list a history of accepted meals, select a time frame (1 week back, 2
weeks back, 1 month back, next week, next 2 weeks, or next month) under the Food
Tracking heading.
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Step 2: If the user has no history of accepted foods, appropriate message will be
displayed.
Figure X. Food Tracking: No Meals Selected Display
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Step 3: If the user has a history of accepted meals, a list of meals will be
displayed.
Figure X. Food Tracking Display
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Step 4: If the user wants to see the detailed meal information or try the meal
again using some, all, or more components, click the links (shown as the list of
components) (see section 4.4 for more instructions on how to proceed next).
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ADMINISTRATOR INTERFACE
After logging in, Administrators will be able to perform operations on Nutricipe users
from the Administrator Interface menu. Administrators will be able create or edit any Nutricipe
user. Administrators will have the option to deactivate, or reactivate a user. Administrators will
also be able to view the User Satisfaction Survey Report of any user, or view the statistics of all
the User Satisfaction Survey Reports combined.
Create Account Option (Or’Sasha)
5.1
Administrators will have an option to create new Nutricipe accounts. Administrators will
create new Nutricipe Accounts if registering a new Admin account or registering users that are
unable to do so themselves. To create an account, Administrators must do the following:
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Step 1: Locate “Create User” link located in the upper left-hand corner.
Figure X. Administrative menu: Create User
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Step 2: Click “Create Users” link to be redirected to the “Profile Creation” page.
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Step 3: Fill in the necessary fields.
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Step 4: Click “submit form”.
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Figure X. Administrative option: Create User Display
Edit User Option (Or’Sasha)
5.2
Administrators will have an option to edit the profile of Nutricipe users. Administrators
will edit users’ profile for those who are unable to do so themselves. To edit a user, the following
steps must be done:
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Step 1: Locate “Edit Users” link located in the upper left-hand corner.
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Figure X. Administrative menu: Edit User
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Step 2: Click “Edit Users” link to open.
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Step 3: Select the user to be edited from the drop down menu.
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Step 4: Click “Submit” to be redirected to the “Profile” page.
Figure X. Administrative menu: Edit User Selection Display
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Step 5: Edit the necessary fields.
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Step 6: Click “submit form” to submit changes.
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Figure X. Administrative option: Edit User Display
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Deactivate Account Option (Or’Sasha)
Administrators will have an option to deactivate Nutricipe accounts. Only accounts that are
currently activated will be eligible to become deactivated. For this reason, only a list of activated
users will be displayed. To deactivate a user, Administrators must follow the following steps:
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Step 1: Locate “Deactivate User” link located in the upper left-hand corner.
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Step 2: Click “Deactivate User” link to open.
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Step 3: Select which user to deactivate (if any) from the drop down menu.
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Step 4: Click “Submit”.
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Figure X. Administrative menu: Deactivate User Selection Display
Activate Account Option (Or’Sasha)
5.4
Administrators will have an option to reactivate Nutricipe accounts. Only accounts that are
currently deactivated will be eligible to become activated. For this reason, only a list of
deactivated users will be displayed. To activate a user, Administrators must follow the following
steps:
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Step 1: Locate “Activate User” link located on the upper left- hand corner.
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Step 2: Click “Activate User” link.
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Step 3: Select which user to activate (if any) from the drop down menu.
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Step 4: Click “Submit”.
Figure X. Administrative menu: Activate User Selection Display
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View Satisfaction Survey Report Option (Mark)
5.6
User Satisfaction Survey Report Display (Mark)
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GLOSSARYOF TERMS
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Admin User: Persons controlling Nutricipe.
Algorithm: A set of commands to serve a particular purpose.
Application Programming Interface (API): An interface implemented by a software program
that enables it to interact with other software.
Array: A collection of data items that can be selected by indices.
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS): A style sheet language used to describe the look and formatting
of a document written in a markup language.
Database (DB): A collection of information that is organized so that it can easily be accessed,
managed, and updated.
Graphical user interface (GUI): A type of user interface that allows users to interact with
programs in different ways.
Health club moderator: A health club representative who has a special Nutricipe account used
for the health club administration purposes.
Hypertext Markup Language (HTML): A language used to create web pages.
Hypertext Processor (PHP): A server-side programming language designed for building
dynamic Web pages.
Ingredients: Any individual raw or prepared food items included in the USDA nutrient
database.
Interface: A point of interaction between components, hardware and/or software.
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JavaScript: An object-oriented scripting language developed to offer dynamic control over the
various elements within an HTML document.
Meal: A combination of recipes and ingredients.
MFCD: Major functional component diagram.
MySQL: An open source multi-user database management system.
Nutricipe customer: A user who has gained access to Nutricipe through purchasing it directly,
obtaining the health club’s memberships, or being members of the health clinics and who
is operating Nutricipe.
Nutricipe database: A database that serves the purpose of the Nutricipe solution and combines
the USDA National Nutrient Database, the recipe database, and the user profile database.
Nutricipe user: The same as Nutricipe customer.
Personal computer (PC): Any general-purpose computer.
Query: A request for information from a database.
Recipe: A set of the following components: the name, how much time it will take to prepare the
dish, the required ingredients along with their quantities, preparation instructions, the
number of servings that the recipe will provide and nutrition facts.
Recipe database: A part of the Nutricipe database that stores the content of recipes from the
USDA recipe database and third party databases.
RWP: Real world product.
Schema: Defines the tables, the fields in each table, and the relationships between fields and
tables in the database.
Server: A computer program that provides services to other computer programs and their users.
Shopping list: A list of ingredients generated for shopping purposes.
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Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP): A set of general design
guidelines and implementations of specific networking protocols to enable computers to
communicate over a network.
Uniform Resource Locator (URL): An identifier that specifies where an identified resource is
available and the mechanism for retrieving it.
User Interface (UI): A system which people use to interact with computers.
USDA: United States Department of Agriculture.
USDA National Nutrient Database: A database of the nutritional content of food items
produced by the United States Department of Agriculture.
User profile database: A part of the Nutricipe database that stores the user personal
information.
Web Server: A computer program that delivers web pages using HTTP over the World Wide
Web.
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