The Prepared Partner
Overview
How do you help a woman in labor? The Prepared Partner is a game intended to teach the player that childbirth is a natural process. Every woman and every labor is different; no one technique or sequence of techniques can help all women or even the same woman throughout her birth experience. The Prepared Partner draws on childbirth education materials to introduce the stages of labor and how they relate to cervical dilation, as well as different actions and activities that may help a woman throughout her labor and childbirth experience.Images
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Publications
"The Prepared Partner: Can a Video Game Teach Labor and Childbirth Support Techniques?",
USAB 2011 - Information Quality in eHealth, Graz, Austria, 11/2011.
Download: Holloway2011PreparedPartner_CanVideoGamesTeachLaborAndChildbirthSupportTechniques.pdf (987.3 KB)
"Babies in Graduate School: Making it Happen",
ACM-W CIS Newsletter, vol. 3, issue 1, Winter 2011.
Download: newsletter_v0301.pdf (5.69 MB)
"System Design Evolution of The Prepared Partner: How a Labor and Childbirth Game Came to Term",
Meaningful Play, East Lansing, MI, Oct 21-23, 2010.
Download: PP-Evolution-of-System-Design.pdf (1.49 MB)



