Identity construction environments: Supporting a virtual therapeutic community of pediatric patients undergoing dialysis

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 380-387

  Bers, Marina U ^a   Gonzalez Heydrich, Joseph ^b   Demaso, David Ray ^b  

^a MIT MEDIA LAB   (United States)

^b BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Dialysis; Identity; Multi user virtual environment; Pediatric patients; Storytelling; Therapy; Virtual communities

Indexed keywords

IDENTITY; MULTI-USER VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT; PEDIATRIC PATIENTS; STORYTELLING; THERAPY; VIRTUAL COMMUNITY;

DIALYSIS; HOSPITALS; HUMAN ENGINEERING; PEDIATRICS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

PATIENT TREATMENT;

EID: 0035042126     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/365024.365302     Document Type: Conference Paper

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