Conference proceedings
Laban, G., Chiang, S. and Gunes, H., 2025 (Accepted for publication). What People Share With a Robot When Feeling Lonely and Stressed and How It Helps Over Time
Doi: 10.17863/CAM.119446
Chiang, S., Laban, G. and Gunes, H., 2025 (Accepted for publication). Self-Disclosure Themes and Semantics Across Human, Robotic, and Disembodied Conversational Partners
Doi: 10.17863/CAM.119447
Abbasi, N., Dogan, FI., Laban, G., Anderson, J., Ford, T., Jones, PB. and Gunes, H., 2025 (Accepted for publication). Robot-Led Vision Language Model Wellbeing Assessment of Children
Doi: 10.17863/CAM.119392
Mehra, V., Laban, G. and Gunes, H., 2025. How Large Language Models Classify and Semantically Explain Facial Expressions from Valence-Arousal Values Proceedings of the 7th ACM Conference on Conversational User Interfaces,
Doi: 10.1145/3719160.3737618
Laban, G., Hough, J., Lee, M., Markelius, A., Foster, ME., Stuart-Smith, J. and Ahmad, MI., 2025. Bias and Fairness in Conversational User Interfaces Proceedings of the 7th ACM Conference on Conversational User Interfaces,
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1145/3719160.3728629
Mehra, V., Laban, G. and Gunes, H., 2025. How Large Language Models Classify and Semantically Explain Facial Expressions from Valence-Arousal Values. CUI,
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
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
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
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. 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
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
Journal articles
Abbasi, NI., Laban, G., Ford, T., Jones, PB. and Gunes, H., 2025. A Longitudinal Study of Child Wellbeing Assessment via Online Interactions with a Social Robot ACM Transactions on Human Robot Interaction, v. 14
Doi: 10.1145/3722123
Warren-Smith, G., Laban, G., Pacheco, E-M. and Cross, ES., 2025. Knowledge cues to human origins facilitate self-disclosure during interactions with chatbots Computers in Human Behavior: Artificial Humans,
Doi: 10.1016/j.chbah.2025.100174
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., Morrison, V., Kappas, A. and S. Cross, E., 2025. Coping with Emotional Distress via Self-Disclosure to Robots: An Intervention with Caregivers International Journal of Social Robotics,
Doi: 10.1007/s12369-024-01207-0
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., 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
Laban, G., Serrano, A. and Cross, ES., 2023. Evaluating Ecological Momentary Assesment Techniques for Self-Monitoring Mental Health Using a Mobile Application AFFECTIVE SCIENCE, v. 4
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., 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
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
