Perspectives of Child Life Specialists After Many Years of Working With a Humanoid Robot in a Pediatric Hospital: Narrative Design.

Journal: Journal of medical Internet research

Published Date: Nov 19, 2020

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Child life specialists (CLSs) play an important role in supporting patients and their families during their visits to a children's hospital. Although CLSs are equipped with considerable expertise to support families during some of the most difficult moments of their lives, we introduced an additional resource to them in the form of a humanoid robot named MEDi.

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Tanya Beran

Department of Community Health Sciences, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Jacqueline Reynolds Pearson

Alberta Children's Hospital, Calgary, AB, Canada.
Bonnie Lashewicz

University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada.
Sandy Baggott

Alberta Children's Hospital, Calgary, AB, Canada.

Keywords

Adolescent Child Child Health Services Child, Preschool Female Hospitals, Pediatric Humans Male Pediatrics Robotics

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Perspectives of Child Life Specialists After Many Years of Working With a Humanoid Robot in a Pediatric Hospital: Narrative Design.

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