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| Title: | Hospitalized Children Navigating within a Computer Based Community:
Participants’ Perspectives of Starbright World |
| Authors: | Bearison David
Holden Gary
Rode Diane
Rosenberg Gary
Fishman Merri |
| Keywords: | Starbright World
telehealth
telebehavioral health
qualitative
children
hospitalization |
| Issue Date: | 1999 |
| Citation: | Bearison, D. J., Holden, G., Rode, D. & Rosenberg, G. (1999).
Hospitalized children navigating within a computer based community:
Participants’ perspectives of STARBRIGHT World. In W. Spitzer
(Ed.), Proceedings from the Virginia Conference on Social Work Practice
in Healthcare [p. 11-18]. |
| Abstract: | The use of technology in the delivery of social services is receiving
increased attention in social work (e.g., Schopler, Abell, &
Galinksy, 1998). Starbright World is a computer based network that links
seriously ill, hospitalized children into a fully navigable interactive
community. It presents a virtual reality play space in which children
are able to explore and verbally and visually communicate with each
other through the use of a representational avatar (i.e., an on screen
character). Starbright World also allows children to interact with each
other in real time via voice and video conferencing. The present study
reports findings from a qualitative analysis of Starbright World. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2451/23611 |
| Appears in Collections: | Gary Holden's Collection
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