Zora: A pilot virtual community in the pediatric dialysis unit

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

Volumn 84, Issue , 2001, Pages 800-804

  Bers, Marina U ^a   Gonzalez Heydrich, Joseph ^b   Raches, Darcy ^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

DIALYSIS; DISEASES; HOSPITALS; PATIENT TREATMENT; PEDIATRICS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

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

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO COMPUTERS; CHILD; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; EVALUATION; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PATIENT EDUCATION; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PEDIATRICS; PILOT STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; SELF HELP;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; ATTITUDE TO COMPUTERS; CHILD; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; OUTPATIENT CLINICS, HOSPITAL; PATIENT EDUCATION; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PEDIATRICS; PILOT PROJECTS; RENAL DIALYSIS; SELF-HELP GROUPS; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 70449368936     PISSN: 09269630     EISSN: 18798365     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.3233/978-1-60750-928-8-800     Document Type: Conference Paper

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