Title :
Multi-user Narrative Sharing System for Children with Chronic Illness
Author :
Chin, Jui-Chih ; Tsuei, Mengping
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Early Childhood Educ., Taipei Municipal Univ. of Educ., Taipei, Taiwan
Abstract :
In our project, we are developing a system that facilitates the hospitalized children with chronic illness to narrate and share their stories. In this system, children aged K-6th grade can create their own and co-construct narratives with peers and bedside teachers in a multi-user environment. The MNS system incorporates features of synchronous and asynchronous communications that afford various kinds of narrating experiences. The effectiveness of MNS system will be evaluated by an experiment.
Keywords :
Internet; diseases; medical computing; asynchronous communications; children; chronic illness; multiuser narrative sharing system; synchronous communications; Aging; Asynchronous communication; Computer science; Computer science education; Educational institutions; Educational technology; Isolation technology; Pediatrics; Personal digital assistants; Psychology; children with chronic illness; multi-user system; narrative sharing;
Conference_Titel :
Advanced Learning Technologies, 2009. ICALT 2009. Ninth IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Riga
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3711-5
Electronic_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3711-5
DOI :
10.1109/ICALT.2009.154
