New Media for New Organs: A Virtual Community for Pediatric Post-Transplant Patients Export

@article{citeulike:6049346, abstract = {This article describes an eight-month pilot study in which 19 pediatric post-transplant patients at Children's Hospital Boston, ages 11 to 15, used a computer-based psychosocial intervention developed on the Zora 3D multiuser environment. Zora provides tools to create an online virtual city and populate it with houses and personally-meaningful objects. Users can communicate with each other via real-time chat and participate in open-ended guided activities to create a social network of peers. Preliminary results support the idea that innovative technologies can help adolescent patients to create a support network of peers when face-to-face interactions are impossible. 10.1177/1354856509342344}, author = {Bers, Marina U.}, citeulike-article-id = {6049346}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1354856509342344}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://con.sagepub.com/content/15/4/462.abstract}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://con.sagepub.com/content/15/4/462.full.pdf}, day = {1}, doi = {10.1177/1354856509342344}, journal = {Convergence}, keywords = {healthcare, innovative\_technologies, new-media}, month = {November}, number = {4}, pages = {462--469}, posted-at = {2009-10-31 17:45:52}, priority = {2}, title = {New Media for New Organs: A Virtual Community for Pediatric Post-Transplant Patients}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1354856509342344}, volume = {15}, year = {2009} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:6049346 L3 - citeulike-article-id:6049346 N2 - This article describes an eight-month pilot study in which 19 pediatric post-transplant patients at Children's Hospital Boston, ages 11 to 15, used a computer-based psychosocial intervention developed on the Zora 3D multiuser environment. Zora provides tools to create an online virtual city and populate it with houses and personally-meaningful objects. Users can communicate with each other via real-time chat and participate in open-ended guided activities to create a social network of peers. Preliminary results support the idea that innovative technologies can help adolescent patients to create a support network of peers when face-to-face interactions are impossible. 10.1177/1354856509342344 IS - 4 JF - Convergence EP - 469 TI - New Media for New Organs: A Virtual Community for Pediatric Post-Transplant Patients VL - 15 SP - 462 KW - healthcare KW - innovative_technologies KW - new-media AU - Bers, Marina PY - 2009/11/01/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1354856509342344 ER -