Earlier research [1] suggests that a social robot can contribute to gaining self-management
skills for children with diabetes. In the current study, the positive effect of different robot …

Children with type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) have a need for social, cognitive and affective
support for self-management. The PAL project develops a social robot and its avatar. The …

This paper presents a robot behavioral model designed to support children during self-
study. In particular, we want to investigate how a robot could increase the time children keep …

This paper investigates the experiences of Italian and Dutch children while interacting with a
social robot that is designed to support their diabetes self-management. Observations of …

Persistent progress in the self-management of their disease is important and challenging for
children with diabetes. The European ALIZ-e project developed and tested a set of core …

Social robots are being used to create better educational scenarios, thereby fostering
children» s learning. In the work presented here, we describe an autonomous social robot …

A robot's unexpected behaviors, such as a social faux pas or system errors, affect how a
child perceives or interacts with the robot. In this study, we conducted two child-robot …

We describe the social characteristics of a robot developed to support children with Type 1
Diabetes Mellitus (T1DM) in the process of education and care. We evaluated the perception …

Research in human-robot interaction envisions applications in a variety of areas. In one of
them, robots can be used to improve educational performance. However, most scientific …

Play is an important part of children's lives and playing with social robots could provide
powerful interventions, for example in education. However, child-robot play is often restricted …