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Read more at: Guy Laban

Guy Laban

I am a postdoctoral research associate at the Department of Computer Science & Technology of the University of Cambridge. I am a member of the Affective Intelligence and Robotics Laboratory (AFAR) under the supervision of Prof. Hatice Gunes.

Journal articles

  • Abbasi, NI., Laban, G., Ford, T., Jones, PB. and Gunes, H., 2025 (Published online). A Longitudinal Study of Child Wellbeing Assessment via Online Interactions with a Social Robot ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction,
    Doi: 10.1145/3722123
  • Spitale, M., Axelsson, M., Jeong, S., Tuttosi, P., Stamatis, CA., Laban, G., Lim, A. and Gunes, H., 2025. Past, Present, and Future: A Survey of The Evolution of Affective Robotics For Well-being IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing,
    Doi: 10.1109/TAFFC.2025.3567740
  • Laban, G., Kappas, A., Morrison, V. and Cross, ES., 2024. Building Long-Term Human–Robot Relationships: Examining Disclosure, Perception and Well-Being Across Time International Journal of Social Robotics, v. 16
    Doi: 10.1007/s12369-023-01076-z
  • Laban, G. and Cross, ES., 2024. Sharing our Emotions with Robots: Why do we do it and how does it make us feel? IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing,
    Doi: http://doi.org/10.1109/TAFFC.2024.3470984
  • Laban, G., Morrison, V. and Cross, ES., 2023 (Accepted for publication). Social Robots for Health Psychology: A New Frontier for Improving Human Health and Well-Being The European Health Psychologist, v. 23
  • Polakow, T., Laban, G., Teodorescu, A., Busemeyer, JR. and Gordon, G., 2022. Social robot advisors: effects of robot judgmental fallacies and context Intelligent Service Robotics, v. 15
    Doi: 10.1007/s11370-022-00438-2
  • Laban, G., Ben-Zion, Z. and Cross, ES., 2021. Social Robots for Supporting Post-traumatic Stress Disorder Diagnosis and Treatment. Front Psychiatry, v. 12
    Doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2021.752874
  • Følstad, A., Araujo, T., Law, ELC., Brandtzaeg, PB., Papadopoulos, S., Reis, L., Baez, M., Laban, G., McAllister, P., Ischen, C., Wald, R., Catania, F., Meyer von Wolff, R., Hobert, S. and Luger, E., 2021. Future directions for chatbot research: an interdisciplinary research agenda Computing, v. 103
    Doi: 10.1007/s00607-021-01016-7
  • Laban, G., George, JN., Morrison, V. and Cross, ES., 2021. Tell me more! Assessing interactions with social robots from speech Paladyn, v. 12
    Doi: 10.1515/pjbr-2021-0011
  • Henschel, A., Laban, G. and Cross, ES., 2021. What Makes a Robot Social? A Review of Social Robots from Science Fiction to a Home or Hospital Near You. Curr Robot Rep, v. 2
    Doi: 10.1007/s43154-020-00035-0
  • Conference proceedings

  • Laban, G., Laban, T. and Gunes, H., 2024 (Accepted for publication). LEXI: Large Language Models Experimentation Interface Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction,
    Doi: 10.1145/3687272.3688296
  • Abbasi, NI., Laban, G., Ford, T., Jones, PB. and Gunes, H., 2024. Robotising Psychometrics: Validating Wellbeing Assessment Tools in Child-Robot Interactions IEEE International Workshop on Robot and Human Communication, RO-MAN,
    Doi: 10.1109/RO-MAN60168.2024.10731253
  • Laban, G., Kappas, A., Morrison, V. and Cross, ES., 2023. Opening Up to Social Robots: How Emotions Drive Self-Disclosure Behavior IEEE International Workshop on Robot and Human Communication, RO-MAN,
    Doi: 10.1109/RO-MAN57019.2023.10309551
  • Laban, G., Le Maguer, S., Lee, M., Kontogiorgos, D., Reig, S., Torre, I., Tejwani, R., Dennis, MJ. and Pereira, A., 2022. Robo-Identity: Exploring Artificial Identity and Emotion via Speech Interactions ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, v. 2022-March
    Doi: 10.1109/HRI53351.2022.9889649
  • Laban, G., 2022. Social Robots as Communication Partners to Support Emotional Health and Well-Being 2022 10th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction Workshops and Demos, ACIIW 2022,
    Doi: 10.1109/ACIIW57231.2022.10086018
  • Laban, G., Morrison, V., Kappas, A. and Cross, ES., 2022. Informal Caregivers Disclose Increasingly More to a Social Robot Over Time Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings,
    Doi: 10.1145/3491101.3519666
  • Lee, M., Sin, J., Laban, G., Kraus, M., Clark, L., Porcheron, M., Cowan, BR., Følstad, A., Munteanu, C. and Candello, H., 2022. Ethics of Conversational User Interfaces Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings,
    Doi: 10.1145/3491101.3503699
  • Laban, G., Kappas, A., Morrison, V. and Cross, ES., 2022. User experience of human-robot long-term interactions HAI 2022 - Proceedings of the 10th Conference on Human-Agent Interaction,
    Doi: 10.1145/3527188.3563927
  • Laban, G. and Araujo, T., 2022. Don't Take it Personally: Resistance to Individually Targeted Recommendations from Conversational Recommender Agents HAI 2022 - Proceedings of the 10th Conference on Human-Agent Interaction,
    Doi: 10.1145/3527188.3561929
  • Powell, H., Laban, G., George, JN. and Cross, ES., 2022. Is Deep Learning a Valid Approach for Inferring Subjective Self-Disclosure in Human-Robot Interactions? ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, v. 2022-March
    Doi: 10.1109/HRI53351.2022.9889431
  • Laban, G., 2021. Perceptions of anthropomorphism in a chatbot dialogue: The role of animacy and intelligence HAI 2021 - Proceedings of the 9th International User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization Human-Agent Interaction,
    Doi: 10.1145/3472307.3484686
  • Laban, G. and Araujo, T., 2020. The Effect of Personalization Techniques in Users' Perceptions of Conversational Recommender Systems Proceedings of the 20th ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, IVA 2020,
    Doi: 10.1145/3383652.3423890
  • Laban, G., Morrison, V. and Cross, ES., 2020. Let's talk about it! subjective and objective disclosures to social robots ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction,
    Doi: 10.1145/3371382.3378252
  • Laban, G. and Araujo, T., 2020. Working Together with Conversational Agents: The Relationship of Perceived Cooperation with Service Performance Evaluations Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), v. 11970 LNCS
    Doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-39540-7_15
  • Journal articles

    2025 (Published online)

  • Abbasi, NI., Laban, G., Ford, T., Jones, PB. and Gunes, H., 2025 (Published online). A Longitudinal Study of Child Wellbeing Assessment via Online Interactions with a Social Robot ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction,
    Doi: 10.1145/3722123
  • 2025

  • Spitale, M., Axelsson, M., Jeong, S., Tuttosi, P., Stamatis, CA., Laban, G., Lim, A. and Gunes, H., 2025. Past, Present, and Future: A Survey of The Evolution of Affective Robotics For Well-being IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing,
    Doi: 10.1109/TAFFC.2025.3567740
  • 2024

  • Laban, G., Kappas, A., Morrison, V. and Cross, ES., 2024. Building Long-Term Human–Robot Relationships: Examining Disclosure, Perception and Well-Being Across Time International Journal of Social Robotics, v. 16
    Doi: 10.1007/s12369-023-01076-z
  • Laban, G. and Cross, ES., 2024. Sharing our Emotions with Robots: Why do we do it and how does it make us feel? IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing,
    Doi: http://doi.org/10.1109/TAFFC.2024.3470984
  • 2023 (Accepted for publication)

  • Laban, G., Morrison, V. and Cross, ES., 2023 (Accepted for publication). Social Robots for Health Psychology: A New Frontier for Improving Human Health and Well-Being The European Health Psychologist, v. 23
  • 2022

  • Polakow, T., Laban, G., Teodorescu, A., Busemeyer, JR. and Gordon, G., 2022. Social robot advisors: effects of robot judgmental fallacies and context Intelligent Service Robotics, v. 15
    Doi: 10.1007/s11370-022-00438-2
  • 2021

  • Laban, G., Ben-Zion, Z. and Cross, ES., 2021. Social Robots for Supporting Post-traumatic Stress Disorder Diagnosis and Treatment. Front Psychiatry, v. 12
    Doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2021.752874
  • Følstad, A., Araujo, T., Law, ELC., Brandtzaeg, PB., Papadopoulos, S., Reis, L., Baez, M., Laban, G., McAllister, P., Ischen, C., Wald, R., Catania, F., Meyer von Wolff, R., Hobert, S. and Luger, E., 2021. Future directions for chatbot research: an interdisciplinary research agenda Computing, v. 103
    Doi: 10.1007/s00607-021-01016-7
  • Laban, G., George, JN., Morrison, V. and Cross, ES., 2021. Tell me more! Assessing interactions with social robots from speech Paladyn, v. 12
    Doi: 10.1515/pjbr-2021-0011
  • Henschel, A., Laban, G. and Cross, ES., 2021. What Makes a Robot Social? A Review of Social Robots from Science Fiction to a Home or Hospital Near You. Curr Robot Rep, v. 2
    Doi: 10.1007/s43154-020-00035-0
  • Conference proceedings

    2024 (Accepted for publication)

  • Laban, G., Laban, T. and Gunes, H., 2024 (Accepted for publication). LEXI: Large Language Models Experimentation Interface Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction,
    Doi: 10.1145/3687272.3688296
  • 2024

  • Abbasi, NI., Laban, G., Ford, T., Jones, PB. and Gunes, H., 2024. Robotising Psychometrics: Validating Wellbeing Assessment Tools in Child-Robot Interactions IEEE International Workshop on Robot and Human Communication, RO-MAN,
    Doi: 10.1109/RO-MAN60168.2024.10731253
  • 2023

  • Laban, G., Kappas, A., Morrison, V. and Cross, ES., 2023. Opening Up to Social Robots: How Emotions Drive Self-Disclosure Behavior IEEE International Workshop on Robot and Human Communication, RO-MAN,
    Doi: 10.1109/RO-MAN57019.2023.10309551
  • 2022

  • Laban, G., Morrison, V., Kappas, A. and Cross, ES., 2022. Informal Caregivers Disclose Increasingly More to a Social Robot Over Time Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings,
    Doi: 10.1145/3491101.3519666
  • Lee, M., Sin, J., Laban, G., Kraus, M., Clark, L., Porcheron, M., Cowan, BR., Følstad, A., Munteanu, C. and Candello, H., 2022. Ethics of Conversational User Interfaces Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings,
    Doi: 10.1145/3491101.3503699
  • Laban, G., Kappas, A., Morrison, V. and Cross, ES., 2022. User experience of human-robot long-term interactions HAI 2022 - Proceedings of the 10th Conference on Human-Agent Interaction,
    Doi: 10.1145/3527188.3563927
  • Laban, G. and Araujo, T., 2022. Don't Take it Personally: Resistance to Individually Targeted Recommendations from Conversational Recommender Agents HAI 2022 - Proceedings of the 10th Conference on Human-Agent Interaction,
    Doi: 10.1145/3527188.3561929
  • Powell, H., Laban, G., George, JN. and Cross, ES., 2022. Is Deep Learning a Valid Approach for Inferring Subjective Self-Disclosure in Human-Robot Interactions? ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, v. 2022-March
    Doi: 10.1109/HRI53351.2022.9889431
  • Laban, G., Le Maguer, S., Lee, M., Kontogiorgos, D., Reig, S., Torre, I., Tejwani, R., Dennis, MJ. and Pereira, A., 2022. Robo-Identity: Exploring Artificial Identity and Emotion via Speech Interactions ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, v. 2022-March
    Doi: 10.1109/HRI53351.2022.9889649
  • Laban, G., 2022. Social Robots as Communication Partners to Support Emotional Health and Well-Being 2022 10th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction Workshops and Demos, ACIIW 2022,
    Doi: 10.1109/ACIIW57231.2022.10086018
  • 2021

  • Laban, G., 2021. Perceptions of anthropomorphism in a chatbot dialogue: The role of animacy and intelligence HAI 2021 - Proceedings of the 9th International User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization Human-Agent Interaction,
    Doi: 10.1145/3472307.3484686
  • 2020

  • Laban, G., Morrison, V. and Cross, ES., 2020. Let's talk about it! subjective and objective disclosures to social robots ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction,
    Doi: 10.1145/3371382.3378252
  • Laban, G. and Araujo, T., 2020. Working Together with Conversational Agents: The Relationship of Perceived Cooperation with Service Performance Evaluations Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), v. 11970 LNCS
    Doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-39540-7_15
  • Laban, G. and Araujo, T., 2020. The Effect of Personalization Techniques in Users' Perceptions of Conversational Recommender Systems Proceedings of the 20th ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, IVA 2020,
    Doi: 10.1145/3383652.3423890



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