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website- Human-Robt Interaction, long-term & child-robot interaction, education and health applications
Working in artificial intelligence and robotics has been one of my passions during all my research life. I’m motivated at building robots that can support society in several ways (health-care, education, entertainment).
My main research line is human-robot interaction and its interdisciplinary connection with cognitive sciences, psychology, sociology, health and education, with emphasis on long-term interaction.
External Profiles
Current & Past Positions
- Senior Social Robotics Scientist
- Human-Robot Interaction Team
PAL Robotics , Barcelona, ES
2022-02 – Present - Researcher
- Engineering Department
Universitat Ramon Llull La Salle Campus Barcelona , Barcelona, ES
2017-09 – 2022-07 - Senior Engineer
Cambridge Consultants (United Kingdom) , Cambridge, GB
2014-09 – 2017-08 - Research Associate
- Personal Robotics Lab - Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Imperial College London , London, GB
2010-08 – 2014-08 - Marie-Curie Fellow
- RIS
Laboratoire d'analyse et d'architecture des systèmes , Toulouse, FR
2008-08 – 2010-07 - Postdoctoral Researcher
Institut d'Investigació en Intel.ligéncia Artificial , Bellaterra, ES
2008-04 – 2008-07
Education
- PhD in Computer Science
Universitat Autonòma de Barcelona Escola d'Enginyeria , Bellaterra, ES
2003 – 2008 - BSc in Computer Science
Universitat Autonòma de Barcelona Escola d'Enginyeria , Bellaterra, ES
1999 – 2003
Publications
Demonstration of an Open-Source ROS 2 Framework and Simulator for Situated Interactive Social Robots
2025 - 2025 20th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)
DOI: 10.1109/hri61500.2025.10974109
Social Robotics
Social RoboticsTIAGo Head: an AI Powered Platform for Social Robotics
2025 - 2025 34th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN)
DOI: 10.1109/ro-man63969.2025.11217595
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Social RoboticsChallenges of deploying assistive robots in real-life scenarios: an industrial perspective
2023 - 2023 32nd IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN)
DOI: 10.1109/ro-man57019.2023.10309467
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Social RoboticsBehavioral accommodation towards a dance robot tutor
2014 - ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction
DOI: 10.1145/2559636.2559821
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Social RoboticsCreative dance: An approach for social interaction between robots and children
2013 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-02714-2_4
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Social RoboticsAdapting robot behavior to user's capabilities: A dance instruction study
2011 - HRI 2011 - Proceedings of the 6th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction
DOI: 10.1145/1957656.1957748
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Social RoboticsAnalysing the behaviour of robot teams through relational sequential pattern mining
2011 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-21916-0_19
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Social RoboticsChild-robot interaction in the wild: Advice to the aspiring experimenter
2011 - ICMI'11 - Proceedings of the 2011 ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction
DOI: 10.1145/2070481.2070545
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Social RoboticsSituation assessment for human-robot interactive object manipulation
2011 - Proceedings - IEEE International Workshop on Robot and Human Interactive Communication
DOI: 10.1109/ROMAN.2011.6005258
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Social RoboticsTowards an open-source social middleware for humanoid robots
2011 - IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots
DOI: 10.1109/Humanoids.2011.6100883
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Social RoboticsWhat are you talking about? Grounding dialogue in a perspective-aware robotic architecture
2011 - Proceedings - IEEE International Workshop on Robot and Human Interactive Communication
DOI: 10.1109/ROMAN.2011.6005249
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Social RoboticsORO, a knowledge management platform for cognitive architectures in robotics
2010 - IEEE/RSJ 2010 International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2010 - Conference Proceedings
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2010.5649547
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Social RoboticsSolving ambiguities with perspective taking
2010 - 5th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, HRI 2010
DOI: 10.1145/1734454.1734533
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Social RoboticsWhich one? Grounding the referent based on efficient human-robot interaction
2010 - Proceedings - IEEE International Workshop on Robot and Human Interactive Communication
DOI: 10.1109/ROMAN.2010.5598719
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Social RoboticsImproving reinforcement learning by using case based heuristics
2009 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-02998-1_7
Social Robotics
Social RoboticsAcquiring a robust case base for the robot soccer domain
Beyond individualism: Modeling team playing behavior in robot soccer through case-based reasoning
Executing multi-robot cases through a single coordinator
2007 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Autonomous Agents
DOI: 10.1145/1329125.1329384
Social Robotics
Social RoboticsTeam playing behavior in robot soccer: A case-based reasoning approach
2007 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Social Robotics
Social RoboticsRetrieving and reusing game plays for robot soccer
2006 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
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