Journal article

Probing Sucrose Contents in Everyday Drinks Using Miniaturized Near-Infrared Spectroscopy Scanners

Weiwei Jiang, Gabriele Marini, Niels van Berkel, Zhanna Sarsenbayeva, Zheyu Tan, Chu Luo, Xin He, Tilman Dingler, Jorge Goncalves, Yoshihiro Kawahara, Vassilis Kostakos

Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies | Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) | Published : 2019

DOI: 10.1145/3369834

Abstract

Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS) is a non-invasive sensing technique which can be used to acquire information on an object's chemical composition. Although NIRS is conventionally used in dedicated laboratories, the recent introduction of miniaturized NIRS scanners has greatly expanded the use cases of this technology. Previous work from the UbiComp community shows that miniaturized NIRS can be successfully adapted to identify medical pills and alcohol concentration. In this paper, we further extend this technology to identify sugar (sucrose) contents in everyday drinks. We developed a standalone mobile device which includes inter alia a NIRS scanner and a 3D printed clamp. The clamp can be ..

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