Foguete de leitura: desenvolvimento de uma biblioteca móvel para o contexto hospitalar

Abstract

Due to the absence of physical libraries in hospitals, many of them make use of products called “mobile libraries” so that patients, especially those who cannot leave their beds, can have access to books. This action collaborates with the 2013 National Humanization Policy and with the playful practices of bibliotherapy and clown therapy, which use books and reading as a therapeutic resource. Within this scenario, this product typology sometimes appears with design problems related mainly to symbolic issues. In this context, design emerges at a strategic level, acting as an intermediary between user, products and environments, and at an interdisciplinary level exploring its links with the areas of health and ergonomics. Thus, in view of the exposed problem and considering the importance of studies dealing with the creation of products and their languages, this research aims to develop a mobile library to assist the playful experience of hospital clowns with a focus on mitigating the process of children's hospitalization. For this, field research was carried out in 5 health units in Maceió-AL, together with the members of the hospital clowns of the Sorriso de Plantão Group. The design practice for the development of the mobile Library was structured based on a hybrid methodology, with methods, techniques and tools. The prototype was validated by the users and the results show the final product developed called a reading rocket, and the main conclusions are about the multidisciplinary character about design and ergonomics in promoting health and well-being to hospitalized children through the product that was used. developed in this research.