Renal transplant patient acceptance of a self-management support system

Background: Self-management support systems (SMSS) have been proposed for renal transplant patients to increase their autonomy and reduce the number of hospital visits. For the design and implementation of such systems, it is important to understand factors influencing patients’ acceptance of a SMSS. This paper aims to identify these key factors...

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...

Integrating Robot Support Functions into Varied Activities at Returning Hospital Visits: Supporting Child’s Self-Management of Diabetes

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 functions for a social robot that may help to establish such progress. These functions were studied in different set-ups and with different groups of children (e.g....

Design and ontology of PAL prototype supporting knowledge and awareness: DR 1.2

This report presents the first user needs analyses, designs and evaluations of workpackage 1 (WP1) of the PAL project. The first general objective of WP1 is to identify the user needs, human factors knowledge and technological opportunities for the project and to take care that these needs, knowledge and opportunities are well-addressed...

The NAO goes to camp

ALIZ-E is a Europe-wide project focusing on long-term child-robot interaction, specifically as a means of educating diabetic children on their condition. This video showcases a recent field study at "SugarKidsClub", a camp devoted to helping 7-12 year-olds handle type-1 diabetes. A wide range of CRI activities developed by ALIZ-E were employed,...