Considerations for the design of a tutoring system applied to diabetes

Author

Curilem, Gloria M J ; Brasil, Lourdes M. ; Sandoval, Rita C B ; Coral, Marisa H C ; De Azevedo, Fernando M. ; Marques, Jefferson L B

Author_Institution

Biomed. Eng. Lab., Univ. Fed. de Santa Catarina, Florianopolis, Brazil

Volume

4

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

2811

Abstract

Diabetes Mellitus (DM) is a chronic disease affecting a large segment of world´s population. This article proposes the prototype design of a Tutoring System (TS) developed to support the educational needs related to DM treatment. The objective is to guide Type 1 patients and their families in the better routines and cautions they should follow, to improve their life quality. As the TS design is the first step of the project of an Intelligent Tutoring System design, the entire project is presented but the first step, the TS design and the pedagogical issues are described more in detail in this article

Keywords

biomedical education; computer based training; diseases; medical computing; Type 1 patients; better dietary routines; chronic disease; diabetes mellitus; educational needs; life quality improvement; pedagogical issues; tutoring system design considerations; Artificial intelligence; Blood; Computer aided instruction; Delta modulation; Diabetes; Hospitals; Intelligent systems; Learning; Sugar; US Department of Transportation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2000. Proceedings of the 22nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE

Conference_Location

Chicago, IL

ISSN

1094-687X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6465-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.2000.901449

Filename

901449