Sandy Baggott
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Sandy Baggott’s research lies at the intersection of pediatric healthcare, child life specialization, and human-robot interaction, exploring how technology can enhance emotional support for hospitalized children. Her most cited work, a 2020 narrative study, offers rare, long-term insights from child life specialists who worked alongside a humanoid robot for many years in a pediatric hospital. This paper reveals how CLSs adapted their expertise to integrate the robot as a tool for distraction, rapport-building, and procedural support, highlighting both the benefits and nuanced challenges of sustained human-robot collaboration in clinical settings. While her citation count is modest, the work’s depth and longitudinal perspective provide foundational evidence for designing child-centered robotic interventions. Baggott’s contributions are particularly valuable for researchers and practitioners seeking to understand the real-world, relational dynamics of technology in pediatric care, emphasizing that successful implementation hinges on the skilled mediation of child life professionals. Her research underscores the importance of qualitative, practitioner-informed approaches in shaping the future of child health technology.
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