The following scenario is used as the starting point for the description of the complexity under which the project is working and as a possible experiment:

Karen is 7 years old, and she has been a diabetic for only three months. She lives in Randers with her father, her mother and her older brother Kasper, who is 10. She is now on a vacation with her family in a relatively remote tourist- and fishing town Skagen.

Her parents have been somewhat nervous about taking their vacation in Skagen, because the illness of Karen hasn?t been stabil, and because they don't feel that their knowledge about diabetes is adequate.  Karen has brought her MIIS in the physical form of a teddy bear, which communicates (when she presses the teddy bears nose) with the technological infrastructure, that is found in her surroundings. MIIS organises information in different profiles such as general characteristics, acute information for ambulance personnel, information for health professionals, food, physical activities, medicine etc.

The family decides to go to a restaurant and Karen goes to the sign outside the place of their choice. The sign reads her general profile and shows the diabetes kids-menu. Karen and her parents blade through the menu. The virtual patient is used to calculate the insulin dose and the following physical activity in proportion to the food they choose. The family wants to go for a walk in the sand dunes after dinner. When the food is brought in, the virtual patient recalculates Karens insulin dose based on her sensitivity to insulin and normal reaction to moderate physical activity in a table compared to the menu.

Karen is looking forward to the day she turns 10, because then she will get a new MIIS, which is no longer a teddy bear, but a PDA which she can use as a cell phone and a walkman. But she is happy about her teddy bear and in school they all know why she is bringing it.

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