Calming children when drawing blood using breath-based biofeedback

Tobias Sonne; Tim Merritt; Paul Marshall; Johanne J. Lomholt; Jörg Müller; Kaj Grønbæk

doi:10.1145/3064663.3064742

Calming children when drawing blood using breath-based biofeedback

Tobias Sonne, Tim Merritt, Paul Marshall, Johanne J. Lomholt, Jörg Müller, Kaj Grønbæk

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Abstract

Blood sampling is a common and necessary procedure in the treatment and diagnosis of a variety of diseases. However, it often results in painful and stressful experiences for children. Designed together with domain experts, ChillFish is a breath-controlled biofeedback game technology with bespoke airflow sensor that aims to calm children during blood sampling procedures. An experimental pilot study was conducted in which 20 children aged 6-11 were assigned to one of two conditions involving either passive distraction (watching a video) or active distraction using the ChillFish prototype. Medical staff rated ChillFish significantly more useful in facilitating the blood sampling procedure compared to passive distraction. Qualitative feedback from patients, parents, and medical staff identified aspects that impact the acceptance of breath-based active distraction. Our study highlights the potential of non-pharmacological assistive technology tools to reduce fear and pain for children undergoing painful or stressful medical treatment. Copyright is held by the owner/author(s).

Original language	English
Title of host publication	DIS 2017 - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Pages	725-737
Number of pages	13
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450349222
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3064663.3064742
Publication status	Published - 10 Jun 2017
Event	12th ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems, DIS 2017 - Edinburgh, United Kingdom Duration: 10 Jun 2017 → 14 Jun 2017

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Conference	12th ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems, DIS 2017
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Edinburgh
Period	10/06/17 → 14/06/17

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Bristol Interaction Group

Keywords

3D print
Assistive technology
Biofeedback
Blood drawing
Blood test
Calming
Children
Field study
Game
Hospital context
In the wild
Medical
Relax
Tangible computing

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Sonne, T, Merritt, T, Marshall, P, Lomholt, JJ, Müller, J & Grønbæk, K 2017, Calming children when drawing blood using breath-based biofeedback. in DIS 2017 - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), pp. 725-737, 12th ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems, DIS 2017, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, 10/06/17. https://doi.org/10.1145/3064663.3064742

Calming children when drawing blood using breath-based biofeedback. / Sonne, Tobias; Merritt, Tim; Marshall, Paul et al.
DIS 2017 - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2017. p. 725-737.

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