New Media for New Organs
- 30 October 2009
- journal article
- other
- Published by SAGE Publications in Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies
- Vol. 15 (4), 462-469
- https://doi.org/10.1177/1354856509342344
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.Keywords
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