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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