Educational Interactive eBook for Newly Diagnosed Children with T1DM: Children’s Role in Design

Some of the central concerns in technology development for healthcare interventions in Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus (T1DM) are how to involve young patients and their families in the design process and what methods, including artbased activities, would best facilitate a child expressing their innermost feelings when applying child-centered and participatory approaches. This paper describes a variety of artbased tools and methods (e.g. Cooperative Inquiry (CI) and Informant Design (ID)) used in the creative design processes for defining features and eliciting the content of the stories, plots, roles, characters, images, animations, languages, etc., that will inform the design of an educational interactive eBook for newly diagnosed children (aged 8-12 years) with T1DM. The articulation of design ideas through modeling plasticine figures, drawing and thinking aloud were generated and collected in three workshop sessions organized for diabetic and healthy children who had different roles in and contributions to the design process. Successfully collected data will be used to build a series of low fidelity paper based eBook prototypes.