Dennys Paillacho
Papers
11
Total Citations
100
H-Index
6
About
Dennys Paillacho is a leading researcher in social robotics and human-robot interaction, with a focus on deploying robots in crowded, real-world environments. His work centers on enabling robots to navigate and interact socially in spaces like museums and shopping centers, where they must move safely and acceptably among people. A key contribution is his week-long exploratory study at the Cosmocaixa Science Museum in Barcelona, where a humanoid robot guided hundreds of visitors, evaluating group-robot interaction in the wild—a landmark paper with 20 citations. He has also advanced socially acceptable navigation, with recent work on online navigation in large, crowded settings (14 citations) and a 2022 paper on the topic (9 citations). Beyond navigation, Paillacho has developed expressive robotic faces for emotion communication (18 citations) and pioneered the LOLY platform, a human-robot-game system for engaging children with autism in learning, supported by subsequent studies on facial expression analysis (7 citations) and visual metrics for inclusive education (6 citations). His research, totaling over 100 citations, bridges technical robotics and social impact, making him a notable figure in human-centered robotics.
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- 3Online Social Robot Navigation in Indoor, Large and Crowded Environments14 citations · 2023
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- 5Towards Online Socially Acceptable Robot Navigation9 citations · 2022
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