She got her doctorate in computing in 2001 by the University of La Laguna (ULL) with her doctoral thesis Intelligent tutorial system for children with intellectual and cognitive disabilities (in Spanish, Sistema tutorial inteligente para niños con discapacidades intelectuales y cognitivas),[2] in which she applies technology to the education of the students with special necessities.

She is teacher at the Department of Engineering Informatics and Systems of the University of La Laguna,[4] where she manages the researching group "Interaction, ICT and Education" (ITED, in Spanish, Interacción, TIC y Educación).

[6] She is also member of the boards of the Human-Computer Interaction Association (in Spanish, Asociación Interacción Persona-Ordenador, AIPO) and the Association for the Development of Educational Informatics (in Spanish, Asociación para el Desarrollo de la Informática Educativa, ADIE).

[10] In 2021, González received the award AIPO Jesús Lores for the best research work by her Automatic captions on video calls, a must for the elderly.

Using Mozilla DeepSpeech for the STT, in collaboration with Eduardo Nacimiento-García and Francisco Luis Gutiérrez Vela.