2. Socio-Cognitive Engineering

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

The main takeaways:

- SCE enables the integration of theories and technologies from different fields of knowledge. It is a method that can design solutions for diverse individuals and context-dependent needs for either patients and caregivers. 

-SCE evolved from two previously used methods namely joint cognitive systems and situated cognitive engineering. However, SCE focuses more on human-agent and robot teamwork and patterns. It is a way of modelling social intelligence that evolves over time.

-It is of great importance to apply  "... a comprehensive socio-cognitive methodology that systematically
addresses the social context, the building of a shared human-robot knowledge base and the opportunities to improve and learn continuously."

- For the inclusion of human factors, three factors are of great importance as stated by the Self-determination theory (STD). These basic needs have a great effect on the development of human behaviour and are given by autonomy, competence and relatedness. 

- The PAL is the first big addition to social robotics and is a great example for future research and the importance of the integration of human factor knowledge into social robotics through design, modelling and evaluation.

Paper: Socio-cognitive engineering: A methodology for the design of human-centred technology

https://www-sciencedirect-com.tudelft.idm.oclc.org/science/article/pii/S0377221701001187

The main takeaways:

- " ... the methodology of socio-cognitive engineering which aims to analyse the complex interactions between people and computer-based technology and then transform this analysis into usable, useful and elegant socio-technical systems..."

- the original aim of cognitive engineering was to improve the interaction between user and technology based on cognitive psychology. This was expanded by social interaction and diating communication. 

- SCE involves the potential users and uses their knowledge to actively involve them in the design process. Also, the actors that might be affected by the design are also taken into consideration and are also involved in the design process. 

- This research extends the current SCE methods to provide a clear guideline for the analysis and design. It wants to contribute towards a science of interactive design