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Helping Their Child, Helping Each Other:: Parents’ Mediated Social Support in the Children's Hospital

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Krishna Supradeep Yalamarti,

Emily L. Mueller,

Andrew D. MillerAuthors Info & Claims

CSCW '21 Companion: Companion Publication of the 2021 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing

Pages 140 - 143

https://doi.org/10.1145/3462204.3481759

Published: 23 October 2021 Publication History

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During a health crisis, such as the hospitalization of a child with a serious illness, families must adjust and support each other in coordinating care. CSCW researchers have shown the potential for collaborative technologies to enhance social support in different settings. However, less is known about the potential for CSCW technologies to augment social support practices within family caregiving circles. In this poster, we describe findings from 14 interviews with parents of children hospitalized for cancer treatment. We categorized the support practices between parents and found that they rely heavily on technology to support each other from a distance. We identified opportunities for designing future collaborative technology to augment social support in caregiving teams.

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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3555187

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CSCW '21 Companion: Companion Publication of the 2021 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing

October 2021

370 pages

ISBN:9781450384797

DOI:10.1145/3462204

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Northwestern University, USA
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Sharon Ding
Fudan University, China
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Cornell University, USA
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Andrés Monroy-Hernández
Snap, Inc., USA
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University of Washington, USA
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Nikkhah SJohn SYalamarti KMueller EMiller A(2022)Family Care Coordination in the Children's Hospital: Phases and Cycles in the Pediatric Cancer Caregiving JourneyProceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction10.1145/35551876:CSCW2(1-30)Online publication date: 11-Nov-2022
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3555187

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