Appropriate Design
Starbright
Foundation Children's Diabetes Adventure CD-ROM
Technology used for something other than selling
stuff
Task
Teach children with diabetes and their parents what having diabetes means
for their bodies and for their lives.
User
Diabetic children age 5-18 years, and their parents.
Technology
Cross-platform CD-ROM
Level of Support
Operation by unaccompanied children as young as age 5.
Process
Research
domain using interviews with physicians, children and parents, as well
as archival research.
Design interaction flow.
Write script.
Manage graphic design and coding process.
Design
Education and adventure are interlocking components of Life Adventure
Series: Diabetes. Narratives (e.g. taking a tour of the body's digestive
tract) are interspersed with goal directed metaphoric games (e.g. sugar
molecule "blasters" to feed cells in a high speed arcade game). The CD-ROM
is narrated in both English and Spanish.
