What can CALMER technology do for babies who are born preterm?
In this episode, I feature the work from a group of researchers at the University of British Columbia who took on a 10-year technological challenge: how to simulate key aspects of maternal skin-to-skin holding for prematurely born babies. And they succeeded. With CALMER technology, moms felt at ease. They perceived CALMER not as a threat but as an ally in maintaining the maternal bond.
Full citation:
Hauser S, Suto MJ, Holsti L, Ranger M, MacLean KE. Designing and evaluating CALMER, a device for simulating maternal skin-to-skin holding for premature infants. In Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2020 Apr 21 (pp. 1-15).
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