Making diabetes education interactive : tangible educational toys for children with type-1 diabetes

Kyfonidis, Charalampos and Lennon, Marilyn; Brewster, Stephen and Fitzpatrick, Geraldine and Cox, Anna and Kostakos, Vassilis, eds. (2019) Making diabetes education interactive : tangible educational toys for children with type-1 diabetes. In: CHI '19: Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM, GBR, pp. 1-12. ISBN 9781450359702 (https://doi.org/10.1145/3290605.3300671)

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Abstract

Younger children (under 9 years) with type-1 diabetes are often very passive in the management of their condition and can face difficulties in accessing and understanding basic diabetes related information. This can make transitioning to self-management in later years very challenging. Previous research has mostly focused on educational interventions for older children. To create an educational tool which can support the diabetes educational process of younger children, we conducted a multiphase and multi-stakeholder user-centred design process. The result is an interactive tool that illustrates diabetes concepts in an age-appropriate way with the use of tangible toys. The tool was evaluated inside a paediatric diabetes clinic with clinicians, children and parents and was found to be engaging, acceptable and effective. In addition to providing implications for the design and adoption of educational tools for children in a clinical setting, we discuss the challenges for conducting user-centred design in such a setting.

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Lennon, Marilyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3271-2400

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  Item type:	Book Section
  ID code:	74577
  Dates:	Date Event 2 May 2019 Published 31 January 2019 Accepted
  Subjects:	Medicine > Pediatrics > Child Health. Child health services
  Department:	Faculty of Science > Computer and Information Sciences
  Depositing user:	Pure Administrator
  Date deposited:	11 Nov 2020 11:52
  Last modified:	18 Dec 2024 01:09
  URI:	https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/74577