Paper Info
Title
mediPuppet: an interactive comforting companion for children while visiting a doctor
Abstract
Young children often feel anxious when visiting the doctors. This paper presents mediPuppet, an interactive companion with an exploratory procedure map designed to help children feel more relaxed and comfortable during their medical procedure. The ultimate goal of this study is to transform an intimidating stressful situation into a joyful exploring game for children during hospital visits.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1145/2069618.2069699
Creativity & Cognition
Keywords
Field
DocType
hospital visit,intimidating stressful situation,exploratory procedure,young child,interactive comforting companion,ultimate goal,interactive companion,medical procedure,health,game
Feel Anxious,Computer science,Medical procedure,Multimedia
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.41
0
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Szu-Chia Lu150.78
Andy Wu2516.77
Ellen Yi-luen Do373186.31