3 papers
cs.RO2025
Towards Multimodal Social Conversations with Robots: Using Vision-Language Models
Ruben Janssens, Tony Belpaeme
Large language models have given social robots the ability to autonomously engage in open-domain conversations. However, they are still missing a fundamental social skill: making u…
cs.RO2025
Why Robots Are Bad at Detecting Their Mistakes: Limitations of Miscommunication Detection in Human-Robot Dialogue
Ruben Janssens, Jens De Bock, Sofie Labat +3
Detecting miscommunication in human-robot interaction is a critical function for maintaining user engagement and trust. While humans effortlessly detect communication errors in con…
cs.CL2024
Child Speech Recognition in Human-Robot Interaction: Problem Solved?
Ruben Janssens, Eva Verhelst, Giulio Antonio Abbo +3
Automated Speech Recognition shows superhuman performance for adult English speech on a range of benchmarks, but disappoints when fed children's speech. This has long sat in the wa…