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. 2021 Jan 19:1-5.
doi: 10.1007/s00146-020-01138-0. Online ahead of print.

Tacit engagement using tablet-mediated learning for social good

Ignacio Nieto  1 , Marcelo Velasco  2 , Christian Miranda  3
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Tacit engagement using tablet-mediated learning for social good

Ignacio Nieto et al. AI Soc. .

Abstract

We discuss the effectiveness of mediated communication (internet communication via a computer tablet) and tacit engagement in a Project on mental health. The project is aimed at improving the wellbeing of adult women living with chronic mental disorders in long-term psychiatric internment. The computer tablets act as "portals" to provide access and conatct with the outside world for patients who have poor (if any) external social support. This support includes a patient-centred psycho-social care, and accompanying clinical and pharmaceutical treatment. Both patients and their relatives accepted the benefits of internet mediation, for very different reasons. For the patient, this is a flash of contact with humanity, and for the relatives the internet communication this proved to be an alternative to the need for physical proximity. As some patients had no relatives or friends to communicate (even remotely) with the outside world, and because there is a school next door to the clinic, we visualized that the communication between these two communities could provide both a therapeutic and poetic act of learning and compassion. The electronic portal could serve as a virtual bridge between two forbidden domains. Although awareness of students of the nearby school was raised about mental health, the use of internet mediation devoid of physical proximity made the students suspicious of the goal of the mediation. From the patient's side, however, each contact was an instance of joy. Several issues were raised from this exercise.

Keywords: Mediated communication; Mental health; Social good; Tablet-mediated learning; Tacit engagement.

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Based on Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological Systems Theory, a mediated intersystems engagement process is made available, from top to bottom and vice versa, using standard ICTs tools to integrate the social systems to the isolated patient, as a virtual wave of communication that trespasses social barriers. Bronfenbrenner Ecological Theory (Sunnqvist et al. 2016), adapted by the authors
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