Abstract
As one of the most common chronic diseases, diabetes negatively affects the lives of many people. Owing to the recent technological developments, blood sugar monitoring applications have become an important assistant means to support people with diabetes. Although, the existing blood sugar monitoring applications can demonstrate the real-time data collected from sensors for the self-monitoring purpose, they mostly are not intended for children with diabetes, even though the rate of the cases of newly diagnosed childhood type 1 diabetes increases by 3%–4% in Europe each year. Considering a child-friendly approach,
We propose an application that enables parents to monitor their child’s glucose level remotely. To implement such application, we developed a plush toy that can register sensor values, synchronize with the parents’ phones and thereby help the children to cope with diabetes. The aim of the present paper is to outline the two iterations of the system development. We share the results of the expert interviews, which have been conducted in the first evaluation round and have provided important insights in terms of further development and psychological aspects. Furthermore, we highlight the positive feedback from the second evaluation round involving parents and experts, which has led us to the conclusion that the proposed system can serve as a helpful and novel approach to support children with diabetes and their parents.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
References
World Health Organization: 10 facts on Diabetes (2016). https://www.who.int/features/factfiles/diabetes/en/
World Health Organization: Diabetes (2018). https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/diabetes
Deutsche Diabetes Stiftung: Diabetes-was IST das eigentlich (2020). https://www.diabetesstiftung.de/diabetes-was-ist-das-eigentlich
International Diabetes Federation. IDF Diabetes Atlas, 8th edition 2017. https://www.worlddiabetesfoundation.org/sites/default/files/Atlas-8e-regional-fact-sheet-18-99-EUR.pdf
International Diabetes Federation: IDF Diabetes Atlas, 9th edition (2019). https://www.diabetesatlas.org/en/
Patterson, C.C., et al.: Trends in childhood type 1 diabetes incidence in Europe during 1989–2008: evidence of non-uniformity over time in rates of increase. Diabetologia 55(8), 2142–2147 (2012)
Devendra, D., Liu, E., Eisenbarth, G.S.: Type 1 diabetes: recent developments. BMJ 328(7442), 750–754 (2004)
van der Drift Esther, J., Beun, R.-J., Looije, R., Henkemans, O.A.B., Neerincx, M.A. (eds.) A remote social robot to motivate and support diabetic children in keeping a diary. In: 2014 9th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI). IEEE (2014)
Cemeroglu, A.P., Stone, R., Kleis, L., Racine, M.S., Postellon, D.C., Wood, M.A.: Use of a real-time continuous glucose monitoring system in children and young adults on insulin pump therapy: patients’ and caregivers’ perception of benefit. Pediatric Diab. 11(3), 182–187 (2010)
Palermo, T.M., Valenzuela, D., Stork, P.P.: A randomized trial of electronic versus paper pain diaries in children: impact on compliance, accuracy, and acceptability. Pain 107(3), 213–219 (2004)
Franklin, V., Greene, A., Waller, A., Greene, S., Pagliari, C.: Patients’ engagement with “Sweet Talk”–a text messaging support system for young people with diabetes. J. Med. Internet Res. 10(2), e20 (2008)
Mougiakakou, S.G., Kouris, I., Iliopoulou, D., Vazeou, A., Koutsouris, D. (eds.) Mobile technology to empower people with diabetes mellitus: design and development of a mobile application. In: 2009 9th International Conference on Information Technology and Applications in Biomedicine. IEEE (2009)
Al-Taee, M.A., Al-Nuaimy, W., Muhsin, Z.J., Al-Ataby, A.: Robot assistant in management of diabetes in children based on the Internet of things. IEEE Internet Things J. 4(2), 437–445 (2016)
Toscos, T., Connelly, K., Rogers, Y. (eds.): Best intentions: health monitoring technology and children. In: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM (2012)
Thaler, R.H., Sunstein, C.R.: Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness. Penguin Books (2009)
Hevner, A., Chatterjee, S.: Design science research in information systems. In: Design Research in Information Systems: Theory and Practice, pp. 9–22. Springer, Boston (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-5653-8_2
Webster, J., Watson, R.T.: Analyzing the past to prepare for the future: writing a literature review. MIS Q., xiii–xxiii (2002)
Abbott Laboratories. FreeStyle Libre, 22 January 2020. https://www.freestylelibre.us
Hinneburg, I.: Diabetes bei Kindern: Tagtägliche Herausforderung. Pharmazeutische Zeitung 2016, 15 August 2016
Davis, F.D.: Perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, and user acceptance of information technology. MIS Q., 319–340 (1989)
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2020 Springer Nature Switzerland AG
About this paper
Cite this paper
Lurz, M., Billmann, M., Böhm, M., Krcmar, H. (2020). A Technology-Driven Approach for Child-Friendly Diabetes Management. In: Duffy, V. (eds) Digital Human Modeling and Applications in Health, Safety, Ergonomics and Risk Management. Posture, Motion and Health. HCII 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12198. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49904-4_32
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49904-4_32
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Cham
Print ISBN: 978-3-030-49903-7
Online ISBN: 978-3-030-49904-4
eBook Packages: Computer ScienceComputer Science (R0)