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Emotional Expression in Low-Degrees-of-Freedom Robots: Assessing Perception with Reachy Mini
Amit Rogel, Elmira Yadollahi, Guy Laban
Emotion expression is central to human--robot interaction, yet little is known about how people interpret affect on robots with sparse, non-anthropomorphic expressive capabilities.…
Social Robotics for Disabled Students: An Empirical Investigation of Embodiment, Roles and Interaction
Alva Markelius, Fethiye Irmak Doğan, Julie Bailey +3
Institutional and social barriers in higher education often prevent students with disabilities from effectively accessing support, including lengthy procedures, insufficient inform…
DialogGuard: Multi-Agent Psychosocial Safety Evaluation of Sensitive LLM Responses
Han Luo, Guy Laban
Large language models (LLMs) now mediate many web-based mental-health, crisis, and other emotionally sensitive services, yet their psychosocial safety in these settings remains poo…
Do We Talk to Robots Like Therapists, and Do They Respond Accordingly? Language Alignment in AI Emotional Support
Sophie Chiang, Guy Laban, Hatice Gunes
As conversational agents increasingly engage in emotionally supportive dialogue, it is important to understand how closely their interactions resemble those in traditional therapy…
Critical Insights about Robots for Mental Wellbeing
Guy Laban, Micol Spitale, Minja Axelsson +2
Social robots are increasingly being explored as tools to support emotional wellbeing, particularly in non-clinical settings. Drawing on a range of empirical studies and practical…
Comparing Self-Disclosure Themes and Semantics to a Human, a Robot, and a Disembodied Agent
Sophie Chiang, Guy Laban, Emily S. Cross +1
As social robots and other artificial agents become more conversationally capable, it is important to understand whether the content and meaning of self-disclosure towards these ag…
What People Share With a Robot When Feeling Lonely and Stressed and How It Helps Over Time
Guy Laban, Sophie Chiang, Hatice Gunes
Loneliness and stress are prevalent among young adults and are linked to significant psychological and health-related consequences. Social robots may offer a promising avenue for e…
Robot-Led Vision Language Model Wellbeing Assessment of Children
Nida Itrat Abbasi, Fethiye Irmak Dogan, Guy Laban +4
This study presents a novel robot-led approach to assessing children's mental wellbeing using a Vision Language Model (VLM). Inspired by the Child Apperception Test (CAT), the soci…
A Robot-Led Intervention for Emotion Regulation: From Expression to Reappraisal
Guy Laban, Julie Wang, Hatice Gunes
Emotion regulation is a crucial skill for managing emotions in everyday life, yet finding a constructive and accessible method to support these processes remains challenging due to…
Beyond Vision: How Large Language Models Interpret Facial Expressions from Valence-Arousal Values
Vaibhav Mehra, Guy Laban, Hatice Gunes
Large Language Models primarily operate through text-based inputs and outputs, yet human emotion is communicated through both verbal and non-verbal cues, including facial expressio…
LEXI: Large Language Models Experimentation Interface
Guy Laban, Tomer Laban, Hatice Gunes
The recent developments in Large Language Models (LLM), mark a significant moment in the research and development of social interactions with artificial agents. These agents are wi…
A Longitudinal Study of Child Wellbeing Assessment via Online Interactions with a Social Robot
Nida Itrat Abbasi, Guy Laban, Tamsin Ford +2
Socially Assistive Robots are studied in different Child-Robot Interaction settings. However, logistical constraints limit accessibility, particularly affecting timely support for…
Robotising Psychometrics: Validating Wellbeing Assessment Tools in Child-Robot Interactions
Nida Itrat Abbasi, Guy Laban, Tamsin Ford +2
The interdisciplinary nature of Child-Robot Interaction (CRI) fosters incorporating measures and methodologies from many established domains. However, when employing CRI approaches…