Guy Laban

Postdoc at @Cambridge_CL, studying HRI and conversational AI for well-being 🤖🧠 Incoming Assistant Professor at @bengurionu Engineering.

[Guy Laban @GuyLaban]

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!

[Sagol School of Neuroscience @of_sagol]

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!
@GuyLaban

[Ben-Gurion University of the Negev @bengurionu]

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.

[Natural Language Processing Papers @HEI]

SPASM: Stable Persona-driven Agent Simulation for Multi-turn Dialogue Generation

Han Luo, Guy Laban
https://t.co/cbK5mdo0aA [𝚌𝚜.𝙲𝙻 𝚌𝚜.𝙼𝙰]
💬Accepted to Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026)

[Multiagent Systems Papers @PIN]

DialogGuard: Multi-Agent Psychosocial Safety Evaluation of Sensitive LLM Responses. https://t.co/tQlMzOKgUR

[PsyPost.org @PsyPost]

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. https://t.co/GVBQUzZPOI

[Cambridge Computer Science @Cambridge_CL]

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! https://t.co/tZnM3Ha6K0

[Guy Laban @GuyLaban]

@Amit_Goldenb @AnatPerry @minzlicht @_desmond_ong https://t.co/GppX1M0FXZ

[Guy Laban @GuyLaban]

@Amit_Goldenb @AnatPerry @minzlicht @_desmond_ong https://t.co/JifahLTZp5

The user study reported

[Guy Laban @GuyLaban]

@Amit_Goldenb @AnatPerry @minzlicht @_desmond_ong https://t.co/K9AkejkHOJ

[ACM CUI @ACM_CUI]

The #CUI2025 PROCEEDINGS are now LIVE in the ACM Digital Library! 📖🔍 Dive into the papers here: https://t.co/On12FiN9KW

The conference kicks off TOMORROW (July 8) — just one sleep away!! Looking forward to a great week ahead! See you soon! 👏👏👏

[Guy Laban @GuyLaban]

@eranh75_eran ברכות ערן!

[Guy Laban @GuyLaban]

🚨 New paper out w @ValMorrisonProf @ArvidKappas
@brain_on_dance!➡️https://t.co/F7yTOUGclP 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

[Guy Laban @GuyLaban]

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? 🤯

[Guy Laban @GuyLaban]

🚨 New paper out w @ValMorrisonProf @ArvidKappas
@brain_on_dance!➡️https://t.co/F7yTOUGclP 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

[Guy Laban @GuyLaban]

📢 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!➡️ https://t.co/lAULrQLKKj

[Guy Laban @GuyLaban]

📢 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!➡️ https://t.co/lAULrQLKKj

[Arvid Kappas @ArvidKappas]

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). https://t.co/HOyHJ9HuzF
#socialrobotics #pepperrobot
audio: https://t.co/wFJKzUv60C

[Human-Computer Interaction Papers @Smartphones]

What People Share With a Robot When Feeling Lonely and Stressed and How It Helps Over Time. https://t.co/8MBmj8PK0B

[Siyang Song @Siyang_Song_05]

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).
https://t.co/M26FlTskYL