Can social robots help children in healthcare contexts? A scoping review.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To review research on social robots to help children in healthcare contexts in order to describe the current state of the literature and explore future directions for research and practice.

Design

Scoping review.

Data sources

Engineering Village, IEEE Xplore, Medline, PsycINFO and Scopus databases were searched up until 10 July 2017. Only publications written in English were considered. Identified publications were initially screened by title and abstract, and the full texts of remaining publications were then subsequently screened.

Eligibility criteria

Publications were included if they were journal articles, conference proceedings or conference proceedings published as monographs that described the conceptualisation, development, testing or evaluati

SUBMITTER: Dawe J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6361370 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature