Title
Usability of the PAL objectives dashboard for children’s diabetes self-management education
Author
Peters, R.
Oleari, E.
Sardu, F.
Neerincx, M.A.
Publication year
2019
Abstract
Children will only benefit from educational technologies and e-coaches when they understand the long-term consequences and are (intrinsically) motivated to use these support systems. This paper presents an Objective Dashboard that integrates educational achievements, goals and tasks with gamification features (such as challenges, scores and rewards) to advance the interests and engagements of children with type 1 diabetes when using the Personal Assistant for a healthy Lifestyle (PAL) system. By linking in-app activities (e.g., play a quiz or keep a diary) to relevant educational achievements, and to skills and knowledge required in daily life, we aim to increase intrinsic motivation and thereby usage. We designed a dashboard displaying personalised achievements, learning goals and tasks in the domain of diabetes self-management education. We used common user interface design patterns such as layering, colouring, and iconic presentation to organise complex information and reinforce the relations between concepts. Subsequently, we conducted a usability evaluation with twelve children, on the basis of which we refined our design. We found that, colouring and layering were to some extent effective, however, iconic representations were insufficient. Therefore, we recommend to provide short, descriptive labels at any time. © 2019 Association for Computing Machinery.
Subject
E-learning
Education
Health care
Labels
Diabetes self-management
Gamification
Iconic representation
Intrinsic motivation
Learning goals
Personalizations
Usability evaluation
User interface design patterns
User interfaces
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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1145/3312714.3312736
TNO identifier
867361
Publisher
Association for Computing Machinery
Source
ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, 5th International Conference on e-Society, e-Learning and e-Technologies, ICSLT 2019, 10 January 2019 through 12 January 2019, 22-28
Document type
conference paper