Social robots are a promising new technology for primary education. However, they also
introduce practical and moral challenges and there is an increasing demand for guidelines …

We present the design process of the robot YOLO aimed at stimulating creativity in children.
This robot was developed under a human-centered design approach with participatory …

Social robots have the potential to provide support in a number of practical domains, such as
learning and behaviour change. This potential is particularly relevant for children, who have …

While social robots bring new opportunities for education, they also come with moral
challenges. Therefore, there is a need for moral guidelines for the responsible …

Social robots have, in the case of children, rarely been studied from a uses-and-
gratifications perspective. As social robots differ from more traditional media, the first aim of …

During the last decade, children have shown an increasing need for mental wellbeing
interventions due to their anxiety and depression issues, which the COVID-19 pandemic has …

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 …

We examine the use of role-switching as an intrinsic motivational mechanism to increase
engagement in long-term child–robot interaction. The present study describes a learning …

Answering the challenge of leveraging computer vision methods in order to enhance Human
Robot Interaction (HRI) experience, this work explores methods that can expand the …

Wayfinding is one of the most important skills that children have to learn in order to safely
move in the environment. One problem that 5‐year‐old children encounter with wayfinding …