Daniel Hernández García

Postdoctoral Research Associate in HRI at Heriot-Watt University.

My Publications

Publications in Journals

Marta Romeo; Daniel Hernández García; Ting Han; Angelo Cangelosi; Kristiina Jokinen. Predicting Apparent Personality From Body Language: Benchmarking Deep Learning Architectures for Adaptive Social Human-Robot Interaction. Advanced Robotics. October 2021. (link).

Yaniv Hanoch; Francesco Arvizzigno; Daniel Hernández García; Sue Denham; Tony Belpaeme; Michaela Gummerum. The Robot Made Me Do It: Human–Robot Interaction and Risk-Taking Behavior. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking. November 2020. (link).

Erik Billing; Tony Belpaeme; Haibin Cai; Hoang-Long Cao; Anamaria Ciocan; Cristina Costescu; Daniel David; Robert Homewood; Daniel Hernández García; Pablo Gómez Esteban; Honghai Liu; Vipul Nair; Silviu Matu; Alexandre Mazel; Mihaela Selescu; Emmanuel Senft; Serge Thill; Bram Vanderborght; David Vernon; Tom Ziemke. The DREAM Dataset: Supporting a data-driven study of autism spectrum disorder and robot enhanced therapy. PLOS ONE 15(8). August 2020. (link). (pdf).

Hoang-Long Cao; Pablo Gomez Esteban; Madeleine Bartlett; Paul Edward Baxter; Tony Belpaeme; Erik Alexander Billing; Haibin CAI; Mark Coeckelbergh; Cristina Costescu; Daniel David; Albert De Beir; Daniel Hernández García; James Kennedy; Honghai Liu; Silviu Matu; Alexandre Mazel; Amit Kumar Pandey; Kathleen Richardson; Emmanuel Senft; Serge Thill; Greet Van de Perre; Bram Vanderborght; David Vernon; Kutoma Wakanuma; Hui Yu; Xiaolong Zhou; Tom Ziemke Robot-Enhanced Therapy: Development and Validation of Supervised Autonomous Robotic System for Autism Spectrum Disorders Therapy. IEEE Robotics \& Automation Magazine. vol. 26, no. 2, pp. 49-58, June 2019. (pdf).

Daniel Hernández García; Samantha Adams; Alex Rast; Thomas Wennekers; Steve Furber; Angelo Cangelosi. Visual Attention and Object Naming in Humanoid Robots Using a Bio-Inspired Spiking Neural Network. Robotics and Autonomous Systems. Available online 5 March 2018. (link).

Daniel Hernández García; Concepción A. Monje; Carlos Balaguer. A Use Case of an Adaptive Cognitive Architecture for the Operation of Humanoid Robots in Real Environments. International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems. December 2016. (link). (pdf).

Daniel Hernández García; Concepción A. Monje; Carlos Balaguer. Task Oriented Control of a Humanoid Robot through the Implementation of a Cognitive Architecture. Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems. June 2016. (link).

Daniel Hernández García; Concepción A. Monje; Carlos Balaguer. Adaptation of Robot Skills Models to New Task Contraints. International Journal of Humanoid Robotics. Vol 12. Issue 3. September 2015. (link). (pdf)

Miguel González-Fierro; Daniel Hernández García; Thrishantha Nanayakkara; Carlos Balaguer. Behavior Sequencing Based on Demonstrations - a Case of a Humanoid Opening a Door While Walking. Advanced Robotics. February 2015. (link).

Conference and Workshop Contributions

Nancie Gunson; Daniel Hernández García; Weronika Sieinska; Angus Addlesee; Christian Dondrup; Oliver Lemon; Jose L. Part Yanchao Yu. A Visually-Aware Conversational Robot Receptionist. 23rd Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL 2022). Edinburgh, UK. September 07-09, 2022.

Nancie Gunson; Daniel Hernández García; Weronika Sieinska; Christian Dondrup; Oliver Lemon. Developing a Social Conversational Robot for the Hospital waiting room. Developing a Social Conversational Robot for the Hospital waiting room. Naples, Italy. Aug 29 - Sept 02, 2022.

Nancie Gunson; Weronika Sieinska; Yanchao Yu; Daniel Hernández García; Jose L. Part; Christian Dondrup; Oliver Lemon. Coronabot: A Conversational AI System for Tackling Misinformation. 2021 ACM International Conference on Information Technology for Social Good (GoodIT 2021). Virtual. September 09-11, 2021.

Jose L. Part; Daniel Hernández García; Yanchao Yu; Nancie Gunson; Christian Dondrup; Oliver Lemon. Towards Visual Dialogue for HRI. In Companion of the 2021 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI ‘21 Companion). Virtual. March 09-11, 2021.

Daniel Hernández García; Yanchao Yu; Weronika Sieinska; Jose L. Part; Nancie Gunson; Oliver Lemon; Christian Dondrup. Explainable Representations of the Social State: A Model for Social Human-Robot Interactions. AI-HRI AAAI Fall Symposium Series.Virtual. November 13-14, 2020.

Marta Romeo; Daniel Hernández García; Ray Jones; Angelo Cangelosi. Deploying a Deep Learning Agent for HRI with Potential “end-users” at Multiple Sheltered Housing Sites. HAI 2019: 7th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction. Kyoto, Japan. October 06-10, 2019.

Paul Vogt; Rianne van den Berghe; Mirjam de Haas; Laura Hoffmann; Junko Kanero; Ezgi Mamus; Jean-Marc Montanier; Cansu Oranç; Ora Oudgenoeg-Paz; Daniel Hernández García; Fotios Papadopoulos; Thorsten Schodde; Josje Verhagen; Christopher D. Wallbridge; Bram Willemsen; Jan de Wit; Tony Belpaeme; Tilbe Göksun; Stefan Kopp; Emiel Krahmer; Aylin C. Küntay; Paul Leseman; Amit Kumar Pandey. Second Language Tutoring using Social Robots. A Large-Scale Study. IEEE/ACM International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction 2019. Daegu, Korea. March 11.

Madeleine Bartlett; Daniel Hernández García; Serge Thill; Tony Belpaeme. Recognising Human Internal States: A Conceptor-Based Approach. Workshop at IEEE/ACM International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction 2019. Daegu, Korea. March 11.

Christopher Wallbridge; Rianne van den Berghe; Daniel Hernández García; Junko Kanero; Séverin Lemaignan; Tony Belpaeme. Encouraging the Production of Spatial Concepts in a Second Language with a Robot Peer. Submitted to 27th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, (RO-MAN 2018). Nanjing and Tai’an (China) August 27-31, 2018.

Ricardo de Azambuja; Daniel Hernández García; Martin Stoelen; Angelo Cangelosi. Neurorobotic Simulations on the Degradation of Multiple Column Liquid State Machines. International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2017). Anchorage, Alaska (USA) May 14-19, 2017. (link). (pdf).

Daniel Hernández García; Concepción A. Monje; Carlos Balaguer. Generation and Adaptation of Robot Skills Models. IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots. Madird (Spain). November 18-20, 2014. (link). (pdf).

Daniel Hernández García; Concepción A. Monje; Carlos Balaguer. Generation of New Robot Skills from Learned Skills. 19th World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control. Cape Town (South Africa). August 24-29, 2014. (link). (pdf).

Daniel Hernández García; Concepción A. Monje; Carlos Balaguer. Knowledge Base Representation for Humanoid Robot Skills. 19th World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control. Cape Town (South Africa). August 24-29, 2014. (link). (pdf).

Daniel Hernández García; Concepción A. Monje; Carlos Balaguer. Framework for Learning and Adaptation of Humanoid Robot Skills to Task Constraints. ROBOT2013: First Iberian Robotics Conference. Madrid (Spain). November 28-29, 2013. (link).

Daniel Hernández García; Concepción A. Monje; Carlos Balaguer. Cognitive Model Framework for Learning and Adaptation of Robot Skills to Task Constraints.RoboCity2030 12th Workshop: Robótica Cognitiva. Madrid (Spain). July 04, 2013.

David Herrero; Paolo Pierro; Daniel Hernández García; Miguel González-Fierro; Carlos Balaguer. Perception System for Working with Humanoid Robots in Unstructured Collaborative Scenarios. 2012 International IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium. Workshops V Perception in Robotics. Alcalá de Henares (Spain). July 03, 2012.

Paolo Pierro; Daniel Hernández García; Miguel González-Fierro; Carlos Balaguer; Lorenzo Blasi; Andrea Milani. A human-humanoid interface for collaborative tasks. Second workshop for young researchers on Human-friendly robotics. Sestri Levante (Italy). December 03, 2009.

Paolo Pierro; Daniel Hernández García; Miguel González-Fierro; Lorenzo Blasi; Andrea Milani; Carlos Balaguer. Humanoid teleoperation system for space environments. 14th International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR’09). Munich (Germany). June 24-29, 2009. (link). (pdf).

International Conference and Workshop Organization/Chair

Co-Organizer. Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) Symposium (AI-HRI 2022), AAAI 2022 FALL SYMPOSIUM SERIES. Virginia, USA. November 17-19, 2022.

Co-Organizer. IROS 2022 Special Session on Computational Advances in Human-Robot Interaction, 2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2022). Kyoto, Japan. October 23–27, 2022

Web-chair. 23rd Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL 2022), Edinburgh, UK. September 07-09, 2022.

Co-Organizer. Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) Symposium (AI-HRI 2021), AAAI 2021 FALL SYMPOSIUM SERIES. Online, November 4-6, 2021.

Workshop Co-Organizer. Social Robots in Therapy and Care, 14th ACM / IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2019). Daegu, Korea. March 11, 2019. (link)

Workshop Co-Organizer. Social Robots in Therapy: Focusing on Autonomy and Ethical Challenges, 13th ACM / IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2018). Chicago, IL, USA. March 5, 2018. (pdf).

PhD Thesis

Daniel Hernández García (2014) Robot skills adaptation of learned models with task constraints. PhD Thesis. Departamento de Ingeniería de Sistemas y Automática. Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Advisor(s): Carlos Balaguer Bernaldo de Quirós, Concepción Alicia Monje Micharet.

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