Conference
Power defense
Abstract
Adolescents with T1D often have poor control of their disease. With the knowledge that the current generation appreciates and learns more from interactive approaches to teaching, we have developed Power Defense, a highly interactive video game aimed at improving one particular skill associated with managing diabetes -- numeracy. Diabetes-related numeracy encompasses the ability to understand and interpret results and then appropriately apply …
Authors
Bassilious E; DeChamplain A; McCabe I; Stephan M; Kapralos B; Mahmud FH; Dubrowski A
Pagination
pp. 1327-1332
Publisher
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publication Date
May 5, 2012
DOI
10.1145/2212776.2212449
Name of conference
CHI '12 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems