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Background: Each year in the U.S. there are an estimated 15,780 children between the ages of birth and 19 years of age who are diagnosed with cancer. Many are also medically restricted to their homes each year due to symptoms, treatments, and recovery. Thus, they are consequently denied vital behavioral and developmental experiences fundamental to social connectedness and optimal development. A better understanding of the relationship between tele-technologies that facilitate person-to-person interactions and levels of social connectedness will allow us to develop innovative and comprehensive programs that improve quality of life experiences for childhood cancer survivors.
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Exploring the Potential for Tangible Social Technologies for Childhood Cancer Patients within the Hospital
Through a multi-phased mixed method study with childhood cancer patients (8-12 years old) and their team of caregivers within US and Canadian hospitals we will explore (1) the ways the cancer experience impacts patient's social/emotional well-being, (2) how existing technologies fail to provide feelings of connectedness to friends/peers, and (3) how novel tangible technology could improve connectedness. We aim to (1) empower children with cancer by allowing them to voice their own experiences with isolation, loneliness, and loss of a normal childhood, as well as how technology may better support their needs, (2) contribute design knowledge about how to support meaningful social interaction and play that is age and 'ability' appropriate, and (3) provide insight for future design and evaluation studies by better understanding constraints/opportunities for social tangible technologies intended for use in a real world pediatric hospitals.
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- Award ID(s):
- 1919375
- PAR ID:
- 10156507
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- Thirteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI ’19).
- Page Range / eLocation ID:
- 733 to 736
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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- Conference Paper:
- https://doi.org/10.1145/3294109.3302956
