Dollars for Profs
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Published Dec. 6, 2019
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Bradley M. Appelhans
Rush University Medical Center, Department: Public Health & Prev Medicine
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Rush University Medical Center
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Dr. Applehans has developed an invention that is used in the study. The invention is a food/beverage vending machine that allows the operator to apply different delays to the delivery of each product. Each item sold in the vending machine will be controlled by a programmable timer. After an individual pays for and selects an item, a display associated with the item will show a timer which indicates the amount of time remaining until the product will be dispensed. In addition to the price, the delay to dispensation will be shown below each item. This will enable consumers to consider both price and delay in making their food and beverage choices.
The objective of this invention is to influence the healthfulness of consumers’ vending machine choices without restricting the choices available or by increasing the cost of healthful vs les healthful items, both of which have a number of drawbacks.
The invention has two primary features that are not present in existing food/beverage vending machines: (1) the programmable timer to set dispensation delays, and (2) the display showing the price, dispensation delay, and countdown to dispensation (when purchased).
A provisional patent application has been filed. There have been no financial payments or commercialization of the invention. The product is used in the vending machines, however the data generated from the timing delay is provided by a 3rd party. There is an appearance of conflict and as such the COI Committee has issued a management plan to make his relationship to the invention transparent in oral and written presentations and publications.
Time over money? A novel system to influence snack machine choices.
The pervasiveness of high-calorie, nutrient-poor snacks in the environment are believed to have contributed to the epidemic levels of obesity and cardio-metabolic disease in the U.S. This project tests whether a novel snack vending machine system that uses brief time delays to reduce the immediacy of reward from unhealthy snacks will improve the healthfulness of snack choices. If successful, this project will identify a new environmental intervention that could contribute substantially to obesity and cardio-metabolic disease prevention efforts in schools, worksites, and other settings.
Filed on August 10, 2015.
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