Identifying Risk Management Strategies for Children with Type 1 Diabetes (T1D)

CHI'23 [doi] [paper] [slide] [talk]

Undergrad & MS research assistants: Alice Wou and Arpita Saxena

Research Question

How do parental caregivers collaboratively manage children's T1D for risk situations (e.g., too high or too low blood sugar level) which could be detrimental to the child's health?

Findings

Identified the four types of parental strategies for managing children's risky situations based on two dimensions: 

1) Cause of risk, and 2) Occurrence of risk