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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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Kregting, W., Chen, W. (2013). Multimedia Chair Design for Improving the Experience of Hospital Stay for Children with Cancer: The Escape. In: Angelis, C.T., Fotiadis, D., Tzallas, A.T. (eds) Ambient Media and Systems. AMBI-SYS 2013. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 118. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04102-5_8
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