dr Simone de Droog

Associate lector Child Technology Interaction.

Simone de Droog is an experienced quantitative researcher, writer, speaker, and advisor with a specialization in young target groups. With an academic background in Communication Science (University of Amsterdam and Radboud University Nijmegen) and extensive experience as a senior researcher and consultant, she focuses on the well-being of children, particularly in areas such as health and education. Over the past seven years, she has specialized in child-technology interactions, including games, VR, and social robots. She served as the lead researcher in the SOROCOVA robotics project and secured funding for innovative robotics research, such as the Dream Robot for children in hospitals. Simone combines scientific expertise with practical insights to develop technologies that help children become healthier, smarter, and happier.

e-mail: s.m.de.droog@hva.nl

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Mike Ligthart, Simone de Droog, Marianne Bossema, Lamia Elloumi, Mirjam de Haas, Matthijs Smakman, Koen Hindriks, Somaya Ben Allouch

Back to School – Sustaining Recurring Child-Robot Educational Interactions After a Long Break Proceedings Article

In: HRI '24: Proceedings of the 2024 ACM/IEEE, pp. 433–442, ACM, 2024.

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Mike Ligthart, Simone de Droog, Marianne Bossema, Lamia Elloumi, Kees Hoogland, Matthijs Smakman, Koen Hindriks, Somaya Ben Allouch

Design Specifications for a Social Robot Math Tutor – 'Best Studies Paper Award – Runner up' Bachelor Thesis

2023.

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Lamia Elloumi, Marianne Bossema, Simone de Droog, Matthijs Smakman, Stan van Ginkel, Mike Ligthart, Kees Hoogland, Koen Hindriks, Somaya Ben Allouch

Exploring requirements and opportunities for social robots in primary mathematics education Proceedings Article

In: 31th IEEE RO-MAN '22,IEEE Xplore,Naples, Italy, pp. 316-322, 2022.

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