Design Considerations for Play Experience in Children's Hospital: From Perspectives of Child Inpatients, Parents, Nurses and Hospital Service Experts

Abstract

Play is an essential element of cognitive, physical, social and emotional development of children. the space of hospital takes away play form children. When children face to unfamiliar environment, they act with specific strategies in order to control with own situation: they do things to relax such as taking a walk, watching television, they make drawing to control their emotion, or they fill surrounding with personal and recognizable thins to feel like a home. The goal of the study expends play experience in the hospital environment to create play experience for young inpatients regarding child development. This study conducted to total three sessions; expert interview with child hospital designer, focus group interview with guardian, and generative session with guardian and child. The results of this study figured out factors of play in child hospital in terms of child-patient, guardians, and experts. Based on these results, this study drew out design consideration which aids child development through play in child’s hospital.