Postdoc at @Cambridge_CL, studying HRI and conversational AI for well-being 🤖🧠 Incoming Assistant Professor at @bengurionu Engineering.
Cambridge, UK
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!
Our new study at @AnnalsofIM - shout out to @deanarielmd !
An assessment of AI LLMs for overuse or inappropriate restraint of testing vs established Choosing Wisely recommendations
—AI overuse 5.4%, mainly due to ECGs and thyroid imaging
—AI restraint deemed incorrect rate 0.6%
acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/… @AnnalsofIM
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Thank you @GuyLaban for helping us understand the human side of AI!
Israel continues to lead the way in artificial intelligence, with groundbreaking research at @bengurionu of the Negev helping shape the country's future. Dr. Guy Laban explains how Al can improve everyday life and why continued investment in innovation is essential for Israel. 🇮🇱
Support @A4BGU groundbreaking research: iltvisrael.com/wayforward-a4…
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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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DialogGuard: Multi-Agent Psychosocial Safety Evaluation of Sensitive LLM Responses. arxiv.org/abs/2512.02282
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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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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
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!➡️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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📢 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…
📢 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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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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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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📢 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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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…