Feasibility of Smartphones for Accessible, Noninvasive Micronutrient Assessment

Published in ACM Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom ’24), 2024

In November 2024, I had the opportunity to demo how a smartphone-based spectrophotometer can be used to quantify micronutrients (vitamin B12) to conference attendees at MobiCom 2024 in Washington D.C.! This was a great exercise of my public speaking and presentation skills, and I got to meet lots of other researchers and learn about their work. I also competed in the Student Research Competition, where I won 3rd place in the undergraduate category! For more details on the project, check out our full paper.


Process overview of how the smartphone-based spectrophotometer is used in practice for micronutrient analysis.

Recommended citation: Andrew Balch and Afsaneh Doryab. 2024. Feasibility of Smartphones for Accessible, Noninvasive Micronutrient Assessment. In The 30th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (ACM MobiCom ’24), November 18–22, 2024, Washington D.C., DC, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 3 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3636534.3698861
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