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

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 participat...

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Published inStudies in health technology and informatics Vol. 290; p. 1034
Main Authors Kaufmann, Beatrice, Haldemann, Anouk, Lueg, Christopher, Olalia, Loraine, Thilo, Friederike, Denecke, Kerstin
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Netherlands 06.06.2022
Subjects
Child
Communication
Communication Barriers
Emergency Medical Services
Gestures
Humans
Language
Nonverbal Communication
communication aid
migrant
emergency care
language
Communication barriers
paediatric
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Summary: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.
ISSN:1879-8365