Can a Chatbot Determine My Diet?: Addressing Challenges of Chatbot Application for Meal Recommendation

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Poor nutrition can lead to reduced immunity, increased susceptibility to disease, impaired physical and mental development, and reduced productivity.

• A conversational agent can support people as a virtual coach, however building such systems still have its associated challenges and limitations.
• This paper describes the background and motivation for chatbot systems in the context of healthy nutrition recommendation.
• We discuss current challenges associated with chatbot application, we tackled technical, theoretical, behavioural, and social aspects of the challenges.