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van Bekkum, Michael A. (author), Krieger, Hans-Ulrich (author), Neerincx, M.A. (author), Kaptein, F.C.A. (author), Kiefer, Bernd (author), Rijgersberg, R.M. (author), Racioppa, Stefania (author)The PAL project1 is developing an embodied conversational agent (robot and its avatar), and applications for child-agent activities that help children from 8 to 14 years old to acquire the required knowledge, skills, and attitude for adequate diabetes selfmanagement. Formal and informal caregivers can use the PAL system to enhance their...conference paper 2016
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Neerincx, M.A. (author), van Vught, Willeke (author), Blanson Henkemans, O.A. (author), Oleari, Elettra (author), Broekens, D.J. (author), Rijgersberg, R.M. (author), Kaptein, F.C.A. (author), Demiris, Yiannis (author), Kiefer, Bernd (author), Fumagalli, Diego (author), Bierman, Bert (author)Social or humanoid robots do hardly show up in “the wild,” aiming at pervasive and enduring human benefits such as child health. This paper presents a socio-cognitive engineering (SCE) methodology that guides the ongoing research & development for an evolving, longer-lasting human-robot partnership in practice. The SCE methodology has been...journal article 2019