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
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.
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)
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
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
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! 👏👏👏
🚨 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
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? 🤯
🚨 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
📢 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
📢 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
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
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