“HealthSquare: A Mobile Application for Health Planning”

HealthSquare is a mobile application which runs on the Android operating system.
The objective of this application is to develop a mobile application which provides a
healthy lifestyle plan for the users and available 24 hours daily based on Malaysian context
for users who have the highest tendency of overweight and obese weight status based on
the Body Mass Index (BMI) calculation. This is due to the increasing number of
overweight and obese people in Malaysia nowadays, which lead to diseases such as
Cholesterol and Cardiovascular Diseases (CVD), Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus, Kidney
disease, Liver Disease and some cancers including endometrial, breast and colon cancer.
It happens because of improper food intake per day and lack or no physical activity
involved per individual. In accordance to reduce the risk, they need to be reminded,
especially on the food intake and physical activity. For this project, BMI status will be the
determinant for user to choose the meal and fitness plan. A notification alert feature will
be implemented per schedule as a reminder for the users. As for now, the focus of this
project is an android based application. Therefore, this application is one of the efforts to
reduce the number of obesity in Malaysia and also to provide a healthy lifestyle to the
society. Rapid Application Development (RAD) methodology has been selected to be
used for the project development phase. For the research methodology, the author used
literature review, observation and questionnaire to obtain information relating to this
project. The application enables users to calculate BMI, calculate daily caloric intake,
proposed daily meal plan and fitness plan with subscription and provide health
information to be revised and view by the user. In addition, to ensure the application is
meeting the usability standard, the author has been decided to conduct a usability testing.
Based on the testing, it shows that HealthSquare is a good application with a score of 73.
It is considered as grade B in the usability standard. The application should be enhanced
in the future by developing the application in another operating system such as iOS and
window with an improved GUI. The author suggested to include GPS Tracking System
and add more meal focusing on Malaysian cuisines. A monitoring program should be
implemented for historical tracking. It shows that HealthSquare is a viable solution for
planning a healthy lifestyle.