Familiarisation
- The platform includes 360 images of certain areas of the hospital, giving users the opportunity to explore the hospital setting before their visit to familiarise and reassure children, young people and their families and make their visit less stressful.
- Videos of patients talking about their experience of having various procedures.
Distraction
- We recognised the power of distraction in improving a patient’s experience and compliance with procedures, ALDERPLAY includes games, videos and activities to achieve distraction through engagement.
- The platform offers users the ability to play some Alder Hey games featuring the much loved Hardleeys characters – with jigsaws and pairs games available, each puzzle comes in three different difficulty levels to appeal to different ages and ability.
- For the element of surprise there are also areas within the platform containing unlockable content for children and young people on site to find, scan and unlock. This include a block of Hasbro content (such as My little Pony & Transformers) for patients to unlock and watch exclusively onsite.
Reward
A simple sticker can go a long way in improving a child’s hospital visit. With ALDERPLAY we have taking this to the next level by introducing digital stickers. Staff are able to reward patients whenever they see fit, with unique scannable stickers. The stickers use Augmented Reality, so that when they are scanned, the image on the sticker unlocks new content within ALDERPLAY.
What’s new?
ALDERPLAY is now a Digital Web Platform it can be accessed through a web link and no longer needs to be downloaded. We have listened to your comments and user feedback and used this to guide the platform’s new features which include:
- Personalisation of ALDERPLAY with a variety of different skins designed to appeal to a wider age range. Pictures
- A customisable admin system that allows new content to be added to the platform more easily.
- A watch and learn section showcasing some of the brilliant Alder Hey content.
- Easy access to ARTI the Alder Hey AI virtual assistant.
Future aspirations:
The sky is the limit now that we have the functionality to add and develop new content for ALDERPLAY. It is our goal to continually develop ALDERPLAY so that it can become the child facing element of the wider Digital programme.
We are looking forward to working closely with the different departments within the trust to co create engaging content and digital experiences that would further develop ALDERPLAY’s key principles of familiarisation, distraction and reward.
For more information, or to find out how to get involved please contact alderplay@alderhey.nhs.uk
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