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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…
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…