Selected Publications
Journals, Books & Magazines
J Cameron, D Silvera-Tawil, J Li, C Redd, M Varnfield, N Lannin, D Cadilhac. “Utility of Digital Health Technologies to Support Secondary Prevention of Stroke: Survey Feedback from Clinicians and People after Stroke or Transient Ischaemic Attack (TIA).” International journal of stroke 16.1_ SUPPL (2021): n. pag. Print.
Silvera-Tawil, D., Pocock, C., Bradford, D., Donnell, A., Harrap, K., Freyne, J., Brinkman, S. Enabling nurse–patient Communication with the CALD Assist app: controlled pretest-posttest with nurses and non-English speaking patients, JMIR Nursing, 10/06/2021:19709 (in press), 2021.
Hussain, MS., Silvera-Tawil, D., Farr-Wharton, G. Technology assessment framework for precision health applications, International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care, 37 (1), 2021
O’Reilly, Z., Silvera-Tawil, D., Zurr, I., and Tan, D.W., Animation, Theory of Mind and Humanoid Robots: Creating a Social Robot Video Task, Leonardo (in press), p 13, 2021.
Silvera-Tawil, D., Hussain, S., Li, J. Emerging Technologies for Precision Health: An insight into sensing technologies for health and wellbeing, Smart Health, 15, p 19, 2020.
Roberts-Yates, C. & Silvera-Tawil, D. Better Education Opportunities for Students with Autism and Intellectual Disabilities Through Digital Technology, International Journal of Special Education, 34:1, 2019, pp. 197-210.
Silvera-Tawil, D., Pocock, C., Bradford, D., Donnell, A., Harrap, K., Freyne, J., Brinkman, S. CALD Assist—Nursing: Improving communication in the absence of interpreters. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 27:4168–4178, 2018.
Freyne, J., Bradford, D., Pocock, C., Silvera-Tawil, D., Harrap, K., Brinkman, S. (2018) 'Developing digital facilitation of assessments in the absence of an interpreter: participatory design and evaluation with allied health groups', JMIR Formative Research, vol. 2, no. 1, 2018, pp. 1-13.
Ball, A., Rye, D., Silvera-Tawil, D. and Velonaki, M. How Should a Robot Approach Two People?, Journal of Human-Robot Interaction, vol. 6, no. 3, 2017, pp. 71-91.
Koh, J., Dunstan, B.J., Silvera-Tawil, D., & Velonaki, M. Cultural Robotics, LNAI 9549, Springer, 2016.
Silvera-Tawil, D., Rye, D.C., Soleimani, M. & Velonaki, M., 'Electrical Impedance Tomography for Artificial Sensitive Robotic Skin: A Review'. IEEE Sensors Journal, vol. 15, no. 4, 2015, pp. 2001-2016.
Silvera-Tawil, D., Rye, D.C. & Velonaki, M., 'Artificial Skin and Tactile Sensing for Socially Interactive Robots: A Review'. Robotics and Autonomous Systems, vol. 63, no. 3, 2014, pp. 230-243.
Silvera-Tawil, D., Rye, D.C. & Velonaki, M., 'Interpretation of Social Touch on an Artificial Arm Covered with an EIT-based Sensitive Skin'. International Journal of Social Robotics, vol 6, no. 4, 2014, pp. 489 - 505.
Silvera Tawil, D., Rye, D.C. & Velonaki, M. 'Interpretation of the modality of touch on an artificial arm covered with an EIT-based sensitive skin'. International Journal of Robotics Research, vol. 31, no. 13, 2012, pp. 1627 - 1642.
Silvera Tawil, D., Rye, D.C. & Velonaki, M. 'Improved image reconstruction for an EIT-based sensitive skin with multiple internal electrodes'. IEEE Transactions on Robotics, vol. 27, no. 3, 2011, pp. 425-435.
Velonaki, M., Silvera Tawil, D. & Rye, D.C. 'Engagement, trust, intimacy: touch sensing for human-robot interaction'. Second Nature: International Journal of Creative Media, vol. 2, no. 1, 2010, pp. 102-119
Book Chapters
Chesher, C., & Silvera-Tawil, D. (2020). A Robot-Human Handshake in Space: Touch and Lively Alterity Relations in Social Robotics, Proceedings of Robophilosophy, p.86-95, Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications (FAIA) IOS Press, 2020.
Silvera-Tawil, D. Brown, AS (2019). Cross-Collaborative Approach to Socially-Assistive Robotics: A Case Study of Humanoid Robots in a Therapeutic Intervention for Autistic Children. Social Robots: Technological, Societal and Ethical Aspects of Human-Robot Interaction, Springer
Haring, K.S. Silvera-Tawil, D. Watanabe, K. Velonaki, M.,'The Influence of Robot Appearance and Interactive Ability in HRI: A Cross-Cultural Study, Social Robotics, Springer, Nov. 2016.
Dunstan, B.J., Silvera-Tawil, D., Koh, J., & Velonaki, M. Cultural Robotics: Robots as Participants and Creators of Culture, in Koh et al. (eds), Cultural Robotics, Springer, LNAI 9549, July 2016.
Silvera-Tawil, D., Strnadová, I. and Cumming, T., ‘Social stories in robot-assisted therapy for children with autism spectrum disorders’, Y. Kats (eds), Supporting the Education of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders, IGI Global, Sept. 2016.
Ball, A., Rye, D., Silvera-Tawil, D. and Velonaki, M. ‘Understanding group comfort through directional statistics’, In. A. Tapus, E. André, J.C. Martin, F. Ferland & M. Ammi (eds), Social Robotics, Springer., 2015, pp. 51-60.
Ball, A., Rye, D., Silvera-Tawil, D. and Velonaki, M. ‘Group vs. individual comfort when a robot approaches’, In. A. Tapus, E. André, J.C. Martin, F. Ferland & M. Ammi (eds), Social Robotics, Springer., 2015, pp. 41-50.
Haring, K.S. Silvera-Tawil, D. Matsumoto, Y. Velonaki, M. & Watanabe, K. 'Perception of an android robot in Japan and Australia: A cross-cultural comparison', In. M. Beetz, B. Johnston & M.A. Williams (eds), Social Robotics, Springer., 2014, pp. 166-175.
Ball, A., Silvera-Tawil, D., Rye, D. & Velonaki, M.'Group Comfortability when a Robot Approaches', In. M. Beetz, B. Johnston & M.A. Williams (eds) Social Robotics, Springer., 2014, pp. 44-53.
Workshops & Conferences
Jan Cameron, David Silvera-Tawil, Jane Li, Christian Redd, Marlien Varnfield, Natasha A. Lannin, Dominique Cadilhac, Utility of digital health technologies to support secondary prevention of stroke: Survey feedback from clinicians and people after Stroke or transient ischaemic attack (TIA), Stroke Society of Australia, Oct 2021. (Accepted)
Mahnoosh Kholghi, David Silvera-Tawil, M Sazzad Hussain, Qing Zhang, Marlien Varnfield, Liesel Higgins, Mohanraj Karunanithi, The Significance and Limitations of Monitoring Sleep during Pregnancy, Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society, November 2021 (Accepted)
O’Reilly, Z., Silvera-Tawil, D., Zurr, I., and Tan, D.W., Validation of a Novel Theory of Mind Measurement Tool: The Social Robot Video Task. In Proceedings of ACM Human Robot Interaction conference, Virtual, March 2021.
Xiao, Y., Silvera-Tawil, D., Pagnucco, M. Autonomous Behaviour Planning for Socially-Assistive Robots in Therapy and Education, Proc. Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2020.
Redd, C. B., Silvera-Tawil, D., Hopp D., Zandberg D., Martiniuk, A., Dietrich C. & Karunanithi M.K. Physiological Signal Monitoring for Identification of Emotional Dysregulation in Children. Proc. IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society, 2020.
Bruck, S., Silvera-Tawil, D., Bradford, D (2019). There's a robot in my Classroom, Asia Pacific Autism Conference 2019: Thriving with Autism
O’Reilly, Z., Silvera-Tawil, D., Zurr, I., and Tan, D. (2019) Theory of Mind and Social Robots: Attributing Mental States to Moving Robots. Meet the Women in Robotics Workshop at the Robotics: Science and Systems conference.
Pocock, C., Silvera-Tawil, D., Bradford, D., Donnell, A., Harrap, K., Freyne, J., Brinkman, S (2019). 'CALD Assist - Nursing: Improving Communication in the Absence of Interpreters' National Nursing Forum.
Silvera-Tawil, D., Pocock, C., Bradford, D., Donnell, A., Harrap, K., Freyne, J., Brinkman, S (2019). CALD Assist – Nursing: Improving communication with non-English speaking patients' Nursing Informatics Australia.
Bruck, S., Silvera-Tawil, D., Bradford, D (2019). Teacher expectations of robot-assisted classroom instruction. Australasian Society for Autism Research
Bruck, S., Silvera-Tawil, D., Bradford, D. (2019) 'There's a robot in my classroom' Asia Pacific Autism Conference 2019: Thriving with Autism
Pocock, C., Silvera-Tawil, D., Bradford, D., Donnell, A., Harrap, K., Freyne, J., Brinkman, S (2018). 'CALD Assist - Nursing International Forum on Quality & Safety in Healthcare
Silvera-Tawil, D., Pocock, C., Bradford, D., Donnell, A., Freyne, J., Harrap, K., Brinkman, S. (2018). CALD Assist—Nursing: Improving communication with non-English speaking patients. Nursing Informatics Australia.
Bruck, S., Silvera-Tawil, D., Bradford, D. NAO Robot's New Role - Teaching in the classroom. Autism In Education. 2018.
Silvera-Tawil, D., & Roberts-Yates, C. Socially-Assistive Robots to Enhance Learning for Secondary Students with Intellectual Disabilities and Autism. In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, 2018.
Silvera-Tawil, D., Roberts-Yates, C., & Bradford, D. (2018). Talk to me: The role of human-robot interaction in improving verbal communication skills in students with Autism or Intellectual Disability. In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, 2018.
James-Martin, G., Hendrie, G., Silvera Tawil, D., Freyne, J., Brindal, E. & Noakes, M. 'The effectiveness of a pharmacy delivered meal replacement program with and without a supportive app', APCCN, 2017.
Ireland, D., Bradford, D. and Silvera-Tawil, D. (2017) 'Research in autism-friendly technology needs to improve to make a real difference for people'. The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/research-in-autism-friendly-technology-needs-to-improve-to-make-a-real-difference-for-people-71618, 2017.
Smith,D., Sneddon, A., Ward, L., Duenser, A., Freyne, J., Morgan, A., Silvera-Tawil, D., & Dodd, B. 'Improving Child Speech Disorder Screening by Incorporating Out-of-domain Adult Speech', Interspeech, 2017.
Brown, S.A., Silvera-Tawil, D., Gemeinboeck, P. & McGhee, J. 'The Case for Conversation: A Design Research Framework for Participatory Feedback from Autistic Children', OzCHI 2016.
Haring, K.S. Silvera-Tawil, D. Watanabe, K. & Velonaki, M., 'Expectations towards two robots with different interactive abilities, ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction', March 2016.
Haring, K.S. Silvera-Tawil, D. Watanabe, K. & Velonaki, M., 'How people perceive different robot types - A direct comparison of an android,humanoid, and non-biomimetic robot', IEEE International Conference on Knowledge and Smart Technology, Feb. 2016.
Silvera Tawil, D. & Garbutt, M., The Far Side of the Uncanny Valley: 'healthy persons', androids, and radical uncertainty, IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, Sept 2015.
Silvera Tawil, D., Rye, D.C. & Velonaki, M., Human-robot Interaction with Humanoid Diamandini using an Open Experimentation Method, IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, Sept 2015.
Haring, K.S. Silvera-Tawil, D. Watanabe, K. Velonaki, M., Perception of a Humanoid Robot: A Cross-Cultural Comparison, IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, Sept 2015.
Velonaki, M., Thapliya, R., Rye, D., Silvera-Tawil, D. & Watanabe, K., Social HRI: Overcoming Barriers Through Appearance, Behaviour and Context-Based Design, IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, Sept 2015.
Koh, J., Dunstan, B.J., & Silvera-Tawil, D., Cultural Robotics: Robots as Participants and Creators of Culture, IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, September 2015.
Haring, K.S. Silvera-Tawil, D. Watanabe, K. Velonaki, M. & Matsumoto, Y. 'Touching an android robot: Would you do it and how?', International conference on control, automation and robotics, May 2015.
Haring, K.S. Silvera-Tawil, D. Watanabe, K. Velonaki, M. & Takahashi, T. 'Changes in perception of a small humanoid robot', IEEE International conference on automation, robotics and applications, February 2015.
Velonaki, M., Silvera-Tawil, D. & Rye, D.C. 'Affective Human-Robot Interactions in Social Spaces: Two Case Studies', Proceedings of the Workshop on Applications for Emotional Robots, ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2013.
Silvera Tawil, D., Rye, D.C. & Velonaki, M. 'Artificial Skin and the Interpretation of Touch for Human-Robot Interaction', Presented at the Human Activity and Vision Summer School, 2012.
Silvera Tawil, D., Rye, D.C. & Velonaki, M. 'EIT-based Sensitive Skin and Touch Interpretation for Human-Robot Interaction', Proceedings of the Workshop on Advances in Tactile Sensing and Touch-Based Human-Robot Interaction, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2012.
Silvera Tawil, D., Rye, D.C. & Velonaki, M. 'Artificial Skin and the Interpretation of Touch for Human-Robot Interaction'. Proceedings of the USYD Student Conference, Oct. 2011, p. 3.
Silvera Tawil, D., Rye, D.C. & Velonaki, M. 'Touch modality interpretation for an EIT-based sensitive skin'. Proceedings of the IEEE 2011 International Conference on Robotics and Automation.
Silvera Tawil, D., Rye, D.C. & Velonaki, M. 'Improved EIT drive patterns for a robotics sensitive skin'. Proceedings of 2009 Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation.
Silvera Tawil, D., Rye, D.C. & Velonaki, M. 'Artificial skin for human-robot interaction'. Proceedings of the Workshop on Tactile Sensing in Humanoids, IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, 2009.
Velonaki, M., Silvera Tawil, D. & Rye, D.C. 'Engagement, trust and intimacy: interactions between a human and a robot'. Proceedings of Super Human: Revolution of the Species, 2009.
Silvera Tawil, D., Velonaki, M. & Rye, D.C. 'Artificial Skin for Human-Robot Interaction’, USYD Research Conversazione, Oct. 2009.
Technical Reports
Silvera Tawil, D. 'Artificial Skin and the Interpretation of Touch in Human-Robot Interaction', PhD Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2012.
Silvera Tawil, D. 'Fish-Bird Circle B–Movement D', MEngStud Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2007.
Patents
Silvera-Tawil, D., Thapliya R., Computer readable recording medium and system for providing automatic recommendations based on physiological data of individuals. Filed in 2015 [US20200005668A1] [JP2017073104A][AU2016200984A1][SG10201601166RA]
Grants & Awards
Most downloaded paper award, Smart Health Journal, Elsevier (2020)
Inclusion, Trust & Respect Award, CSIRO Health & Biosecurity, CSIRO (2020)
Victoria Merit Certificate - Public Sector & Government, iAwards (2018)
Pitchfest iAward winner (2018)
Health Round Table Innovations Award (2017)
Best Conference Paper finalist – OzCHI (2016)
Best Conference Paper finalist – Social Robotics Conference (2016)
UNSW Research Grant (2016)
Top 20 most downloaded paper, Journal of Robotics and Autonomous Systems (2015)
2015 Top 15 most downloaded paper, IEEE Sensors Journal (2015)
Asian Office of Aerospace R&D (2014-2017)
Australia-Japan Foundation (2014-2015)
UNSW Early Career Researcher Grant (2014)
ARC Seed Grant Interdisciplinary (2013)
Postdoctoral Fellowship, The University of New South Wales, Australia (2012-2015)
Best Presentation, University of Sydney Student Conference, Sydney, Australia (2011)
Best Student Paper, Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation, Sydney, Australia (2009)
Australian Postgraduate Award, University of Sydney, Australia (2008-2012)
Best Students Project, EDN Innovation Awards, Sydney, Australia (2007)
Rank #1 Electronics and Communication Engineering, Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico (2002)
The University Excellence Award, Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico (2002)