Research Article
Multimedia Chair Design for Improving the Experience of Hospital Stay for Children with Cancer: The Escape
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@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-319-04102-5_8, author={Wout Kregting and Wei Chen}, title={Multimedia Chair Design for Improving the Experience of Hospital Stay for Children with Cancer: The Escape}, proceedings={Ambient Media and Systems. Third International ICST Conference, AMBI-SYS 2013, Athens, Greece, March 15, 2013, Revised Selected Papers}, proceedings_a={AMBI-SYS}, year={2014}, month={6}, keywords={ambient media entertainment children with cancer multimedia chair ambient intelligence}, doi={10.1007/978-3-319-04102-5_8} }- Wout Kregting
Wei Chen
Year: 2014
Multimedia Chair Design for Improving the Experience of Hospital Stay for Children with Cancer: The Escape
AMBI-SYS
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-04102-5_8
Abstract
Children with cancer staying in isolation rooms at hospitals often feel lonely and disconnected from their family and friends. In this paper, we present the design and development of the Escape, which is a chair embedded with multimedia networks. The chair is designed and developed to a product ready for hospital use, in collaboration with VanBerlo Design, Catharina Hospital, Webchair, and MaraThOON Foundation of the Netherlands, for improving these children’s experience of their hospital stay and enhancing their bonding with the outside world. The paper describes the user centered design process, multimedia technology integration, implementation and production of the ambient media system.
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