Can We Do Better than Gesturing? Requirements for a Digital Communication Aid to Support Non-Verbal Communication in Paediatric Emergency Care

Beatrice Kaufmann, Anouk Haldemann, Christopher Lueg, Loraine Olalia, Friederike Thilo, Kerstin Denecke

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Abstract

Providing urgent and emergency care to migrant children is often hampered or delayed. Reasons for this are language barriers when children, and their care givers, don't speak any of the languages commonly spoken in Switzerland, which include German, French, Italian, and English. By a participatory design process, we want to develop a novel image-based digital communication aid tailored to the needs of migrant patients and nurses within Swiss paediatric clinics.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationMEDINFO 2021
Subtitle of host publicationOne World, One Health - Global Partnership for Digital Innovation - Proceedings of the 18th World Congress on Medical and Health Informatics
EditorsPaula Otero, Philip Scott, Susan Z. Martin, Elaine Huesing
PublisherIOS Press BV
Pages1034-1035
Number of pages2
ISBN (Electronic)9781643682648
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 6 2022
Externally publishedYes
Event18th World Congress on Medical and Health Informatics: One World, One Health - Global Partnership for Digital Innovation, MEDINFO 2021 - Virtual, Online
Duration: Oct 2 2021Oct 4 2021

Publication series

NameStudies in Health Technology and Informatics
Volume290
ISSN (Print)0926-9630
ISSN (Electronic)1879-8365

Conference

Conference18th World Congress on Medical and Health Informatics: One World, One Health - Global Partnership for Digital Innovation, MEDINFO 2021
CityVirtual, Online
Period10/2/2110/4/21

Keywords

  • Communication barriers
  • communication aid
  • emergency care
  • language
  • migrant
  • paediatric

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Health Information Management
  • Health Informatics
  • Biomedical Engineering

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