Glucoboy

http://www.glucoboy.com/

Glucoboy is a video game designed to help children with diabetes keep tabs on the sugar levels in their blood in a fun manner rather then the boring and sometimes painful method on monitoring. Its used with the Nintendo Game Boy or the GRiP incentive-based web community and it provides a game that inter-grates the blood test with gaining extra points, items or lives or unlocks things of valuable.

Trustworthy - Its a video game so kids will be interested in it right away. Parents who hate it when their kids play video games will like this one if their child has a hard time monitoring their blood.

Appropriate - For who its aimed at, its extremely appropriate. Its taken something that kids love to spend a lot of time on and made it something that will help improve their lives.

Smart - Its inter-grated two things together to help make the reality of diabetes less troubling.

Responsive - Its incorporated the blood-sugar testing method so those who have used it will know how it works.

Clever - In tests children have been noted as changing their attitude in getting tested, have kept to the schedules and in cases where children would lose there meters, they have kept tabs on the Glucoboy game.

Ludic - Incorporating the diabetes test with a video game provides an entertaining environment for the user.

Pleasurable - A test made in to a video game, extremely pleasurable.