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Faddoul, Guillaume.

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The Virtual Diabetician: A Virtual Platform Providing Diabetes Treatment Information through Storytelling and Virtual Companions.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The Virtual Diabetician: A Virtual Platform Providing Diabetes Treatment Information through Storytelling and Virtual Companions./
Author:	Faddoul, Guillaume.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2018,
Description:	136 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 80-01(E), Section: B.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International80-01B(E).
Subject:	Information technology. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10928208
ISBN:	9780438331297

The Virtual Diabetician: A Virtual Platform Providing Diabetes Treatment Information through Storytelling and Virtual Companions.
Faddoul, Guillaume.

The Virtual Diabetician: A Virtual Platform Providing Diabetes Treatment Information through Storytelling and Virtual Companions. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2018 - 136 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 80-01(E), Section: B.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Claremont Graduate University, 2018.

Diabetes is a disease that affects a large amount of the population and the current treatments only provide methods to manage the condition. Innovative treatments with the potential to cure diabetes do exist. However, such information is usually only available to patients knowledgeable about the limited means of learning about those treatments, often requiring physical relocation. The objective of this research study is to propose a solution to this issue of having important information not efficiently reaching the population. After analyzing the expectations of diabetes patients toward treatments, I develop a prototype of the virtual companion application providing diabetes treatment information to type 2 diabetic patients using persuasion techniques such as storytelling.

ISBN: 9780438331297Subjects--Topical Terms:

532993
Information technology.

The Virtual Diabetician: A Virtual Platform Providing Diabetes Treatment Information through Storytelling and Virtual Companions.
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520 $a The creation of the artifact, the Virtual Diabetician, follows the design science research approach through its design and relevance to the current environment and knowledge base. The evaluation of application is based on a mixed method research study using a questionnaire including the existing System Usability Scale and diabetes self-efficacy scales. In addition, due to a lack of existing measurement tool in this area, another scale, measuring the persuasive effectiveness of storytelling via virtual narrator, is developed and used in the application evaluation. This scale is developed by first analyzing the current literature to define a set of items that can be used to evaluate this persuasion technique. Then, through a set of surveys and factor analysis, a set of components is defined, representing various attribute of storytelling and virtual narrators. From there, are developed a model and a questionnaire that can be used as measurement tool to evaluate the persuasive effectiveness of storytelling via a virtual narrator. Through those questionnaires, I evaluate the application usability, the storytelling persuasive power and the improvement of the diabetes condition management. A small sample of type 2 diabetes participants took part of the evaluation.
520 $a The results showed that despite an effective implementation of technical features and the presence of storytelling elements, the technical limitations of the virtual companion development led to the overall storytelling via a virtual narrator to not have the expected persuasion to learn about the treatments guidelines. On the other hand, the evaluation results indicate that the application has good usability based on the system usability scale and lead to an improvement of the diabetes condition management. The results indicate that the Virtual Diabetician does possess a set of components that can efficiently provide diabetes information to patients using an innovative medium of transmitting the information. This research presents a set of new tools to the fields of healthcare informatics, human computer interaction and persuasive technologies. It provides clear opportunities for future research in those areas and provides multiple concepts that can be applicable to many other fields.
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