Connectionless Communication System for Hospitalized Children

Abstract

Separation from the people they love causes stress in children and weakens their natural healing capabilities. The Connectionless Communication System(CCS)aims to provide sick children with a new means of communication that can help them with their emotional and medical challenges. The CCS is a videophone network communication system that can provide a child with an Internet link to his/her family's home under conditions of unlimited access. Young patients at the National Children's Hospital and the National Okura Hospital in Tokyo, Japan have been using a cyberspace-based network communication system that includes the CCS system since October 1999. This paper studies on the system's effects on children ; it's usability and the effectiveness of the CCS as a communication system for hospitalized children.