Featured Scholar: Joseph Defazio, PhD
Associate Professor, IU School of Informatics
ude[dot]iupui[at]oizafedj
Computerized Education to Prevent Hypoglycemia When Driving
Dr. Defazio's long-term goal is to decrease the risk for driving accidents associated with severe hypoglycemia among adolescents/young adults with Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus. Type 1 diabetes is a common chronic disease affecting millions of US children and adolescents. Although maintaining blood sugar levels near normal will decrease the risk for long-term complications of blindness and kidney failure, tight control carries the risk of severe hypoglycemia (low levels of blood sugar) which may result in impaired judgment, loss of consciousness and seizures. If this occurs while driving, it may result in severe injury and death. Intensive group-based blood glucose awareness training (BGAT) has been shown to decrease the risk for hypoglycemia when driving for adults but the existing program not been designed or tested with adolescents. Dr. Defazio's interdisciplinary project will develop and test a unique computer-based delivery system to provide the initial education about driving and hypoglycemia to adolescents and their parents using combined audio/visual formats provided on a laptop computer.
Selected Publications in IUPUI ScholarWorks
With several research works contributed to IUPUI's free, open access repository, Dr. Defazio has made translational research knowledge available to professionals, researchers, students, and communities around the world.
Jacqueline Hill, Yuan Jia, and Joseph Defazio Ph.D. 2016, April 8. Theory and Research into Practice: Using Self-Determination Theory to Analyze Gamification and Motivational Affordances in Serious Games for Health Education. Poster session presented at IUPUI Research Day 2016, Indianapolis, Indiana. http://hdl.handle.net/1805/10107
Jacqueline Hill and Joseph DeFazio. (2015, April 17).Serious Health Educational Games and Their Effectiveness Among Children. Poster session presented at IUPUI Research Day 2015, Indianapolis, Indiana. http://hdl.handle.net/1805/9038
Hill, J., Defazio, J. (2014, April 11). Health Educational Games and Their Effectiveness Among Children. Poster session presented at IUPUI Research Day 2014, Indianapolis, Indiana. http://hdl.handle.net/1805/5327
Defazio, J. (2013, April 5). Interactive Course Builder: A Novel Approach to CMS Development. Poster session presented at IUPUI Research Day 2013, Indianapolis, Indiana. http://hdl.handle.net/1805/5486
Sonya Waterhouse and Joseph Defazio, Ph.D. (2012, April 13). CHARACTERISTICS OF MUSUEM EXHIBIT LEARNING OBJECTS IN 21st CENTURY? Poster session presented at IUPUI Research Day 2012, Indianapolis, Indiana. http://hdl.handle.net/1805/8148
Amy King, Wade J. Mitchell, Joseph Defazio, and Todd Shelton. (2012, April 13). PERVASIVE TECHNOLOGY TO REDUCE ROAD RAGE: A STUDY ON THE EFFECTS OF METABOLIC CHANGES IN INDIVIDUALS WHILE DRIVING. Poster session presented at IUPUI Research Day 2012, Indianapolis, Indiana. http://hdl.handle.net/1805/7747
Joseph DeFazio. (2012, April 13). Suicide Intervention Prevention and Immersive Health Games. Poster session presented at IUPUI Research Day 2012, Indianapolis, Indiana. http://hdl.handle.net/1805/7544
Joseph Defazio, Ph.D., Kevin L. Rand, Ph.D., Jay Hardin, and Joan Savage. (2012, April 13). The Science and Art of Health Behavior: Theory of Prevention. Poster session presented at IUPUI Research Day 2012, Indianapolis, Indiana. http://hdl.handle.net/1805/7543
Joseph DeFazio. (2011, April 8). Social Network for Veterans. Poster session presented at IUPUI Research Day 2016, Indianapolis, Indiana. http://hdl.handle.net/1805/10832
Stupiansky, N., Faiola, A., Defazio, J., & Orr, D. (2011). 14. The Effects of a Computer-Based Driving Game on Hypoglycemia Education Among Adolescents with Type-1 Diabetes. Journal of Adolescent Health, 48(2), S24-S25. http://hdl.handle.net/1805/6128
Kharrazi, H., Faiola, A., & Defazio, J. (2009). Healthcare game design: behavioral modeling of serious gaming design for children with chronic diseases. In Human-Computer Interaction. Interacting in Various Application Domains (pp. 335-344). Springer Berlin Heidelberg. http://hdl.handle.net/1805/6130