Title
Learning with Charlie: A robot buddy for children with diabetes
Author
Blanson Henkemans, O.A.
van der Pal, S.M.
Werner, I.
Looije, R.
Neericnx, M.A.
Publication year
2017
Abstract
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 aim is to assist the child, health care professional and parents to jointly perform diabetes management. Diabetes camps are an important setting in which the PAL can support children with T1DM. The video ‘Learning with Charlie’ shows how different robot buddies and children interact in a camp setting and learn about T1DM through educative activities. Also, the robots offer socioemotional support in a pleasurable and safe environment.
Subject
Children
Diabetes
Robots
Child robot interaction
Diabetes camp
Education
Self-management
Type 1 diabetes mellitus
Education
Man machine systems
Child-robot interactions
Diabetes management
Emotional supports
Health care professionals
Self management
Social robots
Type 1 diabetes mellitus
Human robot interaction
Healthy for Life
Healthy Living
Life Human & Operational Modelling
CH - Child Health PCS - Perceptual and Cognitive Systems
ELSS - Earth, Life and Social Sciences
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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1145/3029798.3036656
TNO identifier
747115
ISBN
9781450348850
Source
HRI '17 Proceedings of the Companion of the 2017 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, March 06-09, 2017, Vienna, Austria, 406
Document type
conference paper