Postdoc at @Cambridge_CL, studying HRI and conversational AI for well-being 🤖🧠 Incoming Assistant Professor at @bengurionu Engineering.
Joined July 2012
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Excited to share that my dissertation won a Dissertation Award 2nd Runner-Up from @ISREorg! Grateful for the guidance from my amazing supervisors @brain_on_dance & @ValMorrisonProf! Special thanks @ArvidKappas @ITN_ENTWINE for their support! Thanks #ISRE2024 for the recognition!
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This week we hosted Guy Laban for a fascinating talk as part of the Sagol School of Neuroscience seminar series. Thank you for an insightful and thought-provoking lecture!
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Can a robot help you cope with emotional challenges? 🤖
New research led by Prof. @GuyLaban (BGU) with collaborators at Cambridge shows that structured conversations with a social robot improved students’ emotional understanding, sense of control, and mood over time.
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SPASM: Stable Persona-driven Agent Simulation for Multi-turn Dialogue Generation
Han Luo, Guy Laban
arxiv.org/abs/2604.09212 [𝚌𝚜.𝙲𝙻 𝚌𝚜.𝙼𝙰]
💬Accepted to Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026)
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3 Dec 2025
DialogGuard: Multi-Agent Psychosocial Safety Evaluation of Sensitive LLM Responses. arxiv.org/abs/2512.02282
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11 Nov 2025
A chatbot’s introduction can influence how much users open up. When a chatbot is framed as a human, people tend to disclose more and feel more comforted—even if they suspect it’s not actually a person. dlvr.it/TPCMX1
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10 Sep 2025
It's been a summer of accolades for our researchers. Work by several members of this Department was honoured by leading conferences and organisations in fields ranging from #AI to #cybersecurity to #socialrobotics. Congratulations to our colleagues! cst.cam.ac.uk/news/summer-ac…
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The #CUI2025 PROCEEDINGS are now LIVE in the ACM Digital Library! 📖🔍 Dive into the papers here: dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/1…
The conference kicks off TOMORROW (July 8) — just one sleep away!! Looking forward to a great week ahead! See you soon! 👏👏👏
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🚨 New paper out w @ValMorrisonProf @ArvidKappas
@brain_on_dance!➡️doi.org/10.1007/s12369-024-0… We studied how talking to a robot overtime can help caregivers cope with emotional distress. Key finding: Overtime, caregivers disclosed more, felt better, & coped better @ITN_ENTWINE
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hi @ieeeroman, It says online that student registration includes "late-breaking report and robot design competition", but it doesn't mention paper. Is it a mistake, or do students with a full paper accepted need to pay for regular registration? 🤯
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📢 Call for Papers
Join us at the Bias and Fairness in Conversational User Interfaces workshop 💬
🗓️ July 8–10, 2025
📍 Waterloo, Canada (AT @CUI_Conference @ACM_CUI)
Keynotes: Dorian Peters & @micol_spitale
🔗 Submit your work, demos, or provocations!➡️ sites.google.com/view/cuibnf…
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26 May 2025
Hot off the press: Laban, G., Morrison, V., Kappas, A. et al. Coping with Emotional Distress via Self-Disclosure to Robots: An Intervention with Caregivers. Int J of Soc Robotics (2025). doi.org/10.1007/s12369-024-0…
#socialrobotics #pepperrobot
audio: notebooklm.google.com/notebo…
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What People Share With a Robot When Feeling Lonely and Stressed and How It Helps Over Time. arxiv.org/abs/2504.02991
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22 Apr 2025
Join us for the REACT 2025 Challenge on Multiple Appropriate Facial Reaction Generation (MAFRG). Developing digital human/virtual agent that can express human-style facial reactions using our recently established MARS dataset (video, audio & EEG).
lnkd.in/egrUga42
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18 Dec 2024
📢 New publication with @affectivebrain in @NatureHumBehav
Key finding: Human-AI interactions create feedback loops, where AI amplifies human biases, which are then further internalized by humans across perceptual, emotional & social domains.
nature.com/articles/s41562-0…
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13 Nov 2024
Exciting news! Our book chapter, "Cognitive Mechanisms of Being Imitated," is now published! We explore various approaches to studying the effects of being mimicked. Check it out! 📘 @antoniahamilton @PsychFarmer link.springer.com/chapter/10…
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11 Oct 2024
Paper with Yael Millgram & @mk_nock: Using two EMA studies, we found that participants with current suicidal thoughts knew less about the sources of their emotions compared to those with no suicidal thoughts, and comp to controls with other psych symptoms.
psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-…
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Past, Present, and Future: A Survey of The Evolution of Affective Robotics For Well-being. arxiv.org/abs/2407.02957
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