Table 1.

Different levels of application of new technology to dietary assessment from minimal to more extensive

Technology application	Examples
Researcher-assisted dietary assessment tools administered via computerised systems: Researcher/interviewer guides the participant during the recording of the dietary assessment	Computer-assisted personal interviews/computer-assisted telephone interview (CAPI/CATI)(2) US Department of Agriculture's Automated Multiple-Pass Method (AMPM), an interviewer-assisted computer-assisted method(3) DISHES software (Diet Interview Software for Health Examination Studies)(4) GloboDiet software (previously EPIC-Soft(5,6)), a computerised standardised international 24 h dietary recall
Self-administered dietary assessment tools administered via web-based systems/mobile applications: Individual completes the diary assessment tool by themselves	Web-based Dietary Assessment Software for Children (WebDASC), self-administered web-based 24 h dietary assessment tool(7,8) Automated Self-Administered 24-hour Recall (ASA24)(9) The online Food4Me FFQ(10) Australian Eating Survey (AES), online FFQ(11) Oxford WebQ, web-based method for assessment of previous 24 h dietary intakes(12) Myfood24, online 24 h dietary assessment tool(13) INTAKE24, online 24 h dietary recall system(14)
Automated image-based dietary assessment tools administered via mobile applications/servers: Images captured by users ‘before’ and/or ‘after’ eating occasions which are, in some tools, sent to the server for automatic image analysis and results sent back to the mobile device for confirmation and review	Mobile food record (mFR), an integrated dietary assessment system supporting automatic image analysis(15) Food Record App (FRapp), mobile phone food record application(16) Nutricam Dietary Assessment Method (NuDAM), mobile phone image-based dietary assessment method(17)