SUTLAC: A Conceptual Study on VR-Enabled Semantic Dessert Design Utility for Treating Diabetes MeLlitus with Active PartiCipation

There has been an unfortunate increase in gastronomy-related diseases especially due to today's urban living style with less physical activity and unhealthy nutrition. Obesity and diabetes have become climbing threats to human life more than ever before. Besides, combating with diabetes and obesity leads serious economic bottlenecks. Aligned with such a socio-economic state-of-play, technology-enhanced solutions are coming to forward. However, there is still a big need to develop holistic solutions considering the entire food value chain where food and health stakeholders meet in consensus. This paper presents an innovative reflection of this holistic approach with specific interest on two aspects: (1) Combat with diabetes and (2) Food, but especially dessert, design and production processes; considering patient's or eater's preferences and health constraints cordially for better personalized medicine and nutrition. The proposed case study presents an integrated solution that is composed of a combined food, diabetes and dessert design ontology for more comprehensive and structured data analysis, IoT-enabled diabetes monitoring, VR-enabled dessert design and production for better cognitive enjoyment and participative virtual market for diversified access to food stakeholders.