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

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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… Click to show full 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.

Keywords: digital communication; communication; communication aid; emergency care; care

Journal Title: Studies in health technology and informatics
Year Published: 2022

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