Socio-Cognitive Engineering of a Robotic Partner for Child's Diabetes Self-Management.

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 applied in a large European project to develop a robotic partner that supports the daily diabetes management processes of children, aged between 7 and 14 years (i.