2 papers
cs.HC2026
Closing the Affective Loop: Multimodal Speaker-Listener Emotion-Dynamics-Aware Empathetic Social Robots
Zi Haur Pang, Casey Kennington, Tatsuya Kawahara
Empathetic social robots should respond not only to what users say, but also to how their emotions dynamically evolve during interaction. However, existing empathetic dialogue syst…
cs.AI2026
SafetyALFRED: Evaluating Safety-Conscious Planning of Multimodal Large Language Models
Josue Torres-Fonseca, Naihao Deng, Yinpei Dai +5
Multimodal Large Language Models are increasingly adopted as autonomous agents in interactive environments, yet their ability to proactively address safety hazards remains insuffic…