Usability of the PAL objectives dashboard for children’s diabetes self-management education

Children will only benefit from educational technologies and e-coaches when they understand the long-term consequences and are (intrinsically) motivated to use these support systems. This paper presents an Objective Dashboard that integrates educational achievements, goals and tasks with gamification features (such as challenges, scores and...

PAL System impact valorization and future perspectives: DR 6.14

PAL developed a Personal Assistant for healthy Lifestyle (PAL), a system that will assist the child, health professional and parent to advance the self-management of children with type 1 diabetes aged 7 - 14, so that an adequate shared patient-caregiver responsibility for child’s diabetes regimen is established before adolescence.

Design, ontology and evaluation of PAL prototype supporting shared child-caregiver responsibility: DR 1.5

In the third design-test cycle of PAL, we refined the prototype based on the outcomes of the previous cycles and additional user feedback sessions. The new protype was improved on its overall usability, goal setting & achievements framework, personalised child-agent interactions, educational content, gamification and the dashboards for parents ...

Evaluation of PAL prototype supporting knowledge and awareness: DR 1.3

This report presents the work WP1 with a focus on T1.4: The results from the rst design and evaluation cycle. This cycle contained a number of related experiments (i.e., formative evaluations of PAL prototypes). Each experiment had speci c research questions concerning PAL functionality and expected outcomes (claims) concerning (1) child's...

Co-design of the PAL robot and avatar that perform joint activities with children for improved diabetes self-management