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most cited"Can you be my mum?": Manipulating Social Robots in the Large Language Models Era

6 citations · 11 across the 15 of their papers we have counts for

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19 papers

cs.RO2026

Multimodal Large Language Models for Real-Time Situated Reasoning

Giulio Antonio Abbo, Senne Lenaerts, Tony Belpaeme

In this work, we explore how multimodal large language models can support real-time context- and value-aware decision-making. To do so, we combine the GPT-4o language model with a…

cs.CL2025

Prompt-Based Value Steering of Large Language Models

Giulio Antonio Abbo, Tony Belpaeme

Large language models are increasingly used in applications where alignment with human values is critical. While model fine-tuning is often employed to ensure safe responses, this…

cs.RO2025

If They Disagree, Will You Conform? Exploring the Role of Robots' Value Awareness in a Decision-Making Task

Giulia Pusceddu, Giulio Antonio Abbo, Francesco Rea +2

This study investigates whether the opinions of robotic agents can influence human decision-making when robots display value awareness (i.e., the capability of understanding human…

cs.RO2025

Designing Robots with, not for: A Co-Design Framework for Empowering Interactions in Forensic Psychiatry

Qiaoqiao Ren, Remko Proesmans, Arend Pissens +7

Forensic mental health care involves the treatment of individuals with severe mental disorders who have committed violent offences. These settings are often characterized by high l…

cs.RO2025

Touch Speaks, Sound Feels: A Multimodal Approach to Affective and Social Touch from Robots to Humans

Qiaoqiao Ren, Tony Belpaeme

Affective tactile interaction constitutes a fundamental component of human communication. In natural human-human encounters, touch is seldom experienced in isolation; rather, it is…

cs.HC2025

Exploring LLM-generated Culture-specific Affective Human-Robot Tactile Interaction

Qiaoqiao Ren, Tony Belpaeme

As large language models (LLMs) become increasingly integrated into robotic systems, their potential to generate socially and culturally appropriate affective touch remains largely…