ShareFood:CareHood: An educational mobile application for awareness on food wastage

Approximately one-third of all food produced for human consumption is lost or wasted and the rate of food loss is continuously increasing. This circumstance has resulted in a significant increase in carbon footprint and environmental issues. Lack of awareness has been one of the reasons that caused food wastage issue. The main objectives of this research is 1) to develop a mobile application on food wastage; 2) to create awareness on food wastage issue by using ShareFood:CareHood mobile application; and 3) to conduct usability test on ShareFood:CareHood mobile application in terms of ease of use, user interface and functionality. This paper presents the development of ShareFood:CareHood mobile application, which has the purpose of creating awareness on food wastage issue among the users and at the same time gives the users a chance to play their in reducing food wastage by providing food sharing functions. The outcome of this study is provides optimistic results.