“What’s your number?": A survey of how parents and teens cope with diabetes in the context of technology support

Tammy Toscos; Kay Connelly; Yvonne Rogers

5th International ICST Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare

Research Article

“What’s your number?": A survey of how parents and teens cope with diabetes in the context of technology support

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@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/icst.pervasivehealth.2011.246130,
    author={Tammy Toscos and Kay Connelly and Yvonne Rogers},
    title={“What’s your number?": A survey of how parents and teens cope with diabetes in the context of technology support},
    proceedings={5th International ICST Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare},
    publisher={IEEE},
    proceedings_a={PERVASIVEHEALTH},
    year={2012},
    month={4},
    keywords={Design Human Factors Chronic disease Parent-child conflict Adolescence Health Monitoring Technologies},
    doi={10.4108/icst.pervasivehealth.2011.246130}
}

Tammy Toscos
Kay Connelly
Yvonne Rogers
Year: 2012
“What’s your number?": A survey of how parents and teens cope with diabetes in the context of technology support
PERVASIVEHEALTH
ICST
DOI: 10.4108/icst.pervasivehealth.2011.246130

Tammy Toscos¹^,*, Kay Connelly¹, Yvonne Rogers²

1: School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA
2: Computing Department, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK

*Contact email: ttoscos@indiana.edu

Abstract

Teenagers make many transitions during adolescence toward adult lifestyles and responsibilities. Teens with Type 1 Diabetes (T1D) have the additional burden of assuming responsibility for disease management. The findings reported in this paper represent the perspective of parents and adolescents who are coping with T1D - uncovering various tensions that interfere with the effective use of technology to manage the disease. Predominant themes from a set of semi-structured interviews are used to construct implications for the design of new technology intended to support families coping with T1D.

Keywords: Design Human Factors Chronic disease Parent-child conflict Adolescence Health Monitoring Technologies

Published: 2012-04-17
Publisher: IEEE

: http://dx.doi.org/10.4108/icst.pervasivehealth.2011.246130