Cultural Probes Student Name Gillian McCarthy PhD Project Designing medical technology to facilitate adolescents' self-management of type 1 diabetes Method Cultural probes Cultural probes are one creative tool for gathering information and inspiring designers. In this case study, we asked adolescents with type 1 diabetes to write a love letter or break-up letter to a medical device, to draw a metaphor for managing diabetes, and to show us the best and worst aspects of their devices and what features they desired.