Ruben Janssens

According to our database, Ruben Janssens authored at least 13 papers between 2022 and 2025.

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2025

Towards Multimodal Social Conversations with Robots: Using Vision-Language Models.

Ruben Janssens, Tony Belpaeme

CoRR, July, 2025

Integrating Visual Context Into Language Models for Situated Social Conversation Starters.

Ruben Janssens, Pieter Wolfert, Thomas Demeester, Tony Belpaeme

IEEE Trans. Affect. Comput., 2025

Automatic Assessment of Speaking Proficiency for Language Practice Robots.

Eva Verhelst, Pieter Lecompte, Ruben Janssens, Vanessa De Wilde, Tony Belpaeme

Proceedings of the Social Robotics + AI - 17th International Conference, 2025

Why Robots Are Bad at Detecting Their Mistakes: Limitations of Miscommunication Detection in Human-Robot Dialogue.

Ruben Janssens, Jens De Bock, Sofie Labat, Eva Verhelst, Véronique Hoste, Tony Belpaeme

Proceedings of the 34th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, 2025

Online Prediction of User Enjoyment in Human-Robot Dialogue with LLMs.

Ruben Janssens, André Pereira, Gabriel Skantze, Bahar Irfan, Tony Belpaeme

Proceedings of the 20th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2025

Human Alignment: How Much Do We Adapt to LLMs?

Tanguy Cazalets, Ruben Janssens, Tony Belpaeme, Joni Dambre

Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers), 2025

2024

Child Speech Recognition in Human-Robot Interaction: Problem Solved?

Ruben Janssens, Eva Verhelst, Giulio Antonio Abbo, Qiaoqiao Ren, María J. Pinto Bernal, Tony Belpaeme

Proceedings of the Social Robotics - 16th International Conference, 2024

Predicting Errors and Failures in Human-Robot Interaction from Multi-Modal Temporal Data.

Ruben Janssens, Eva Verhelst, Mathieu De Coster

Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, 2024

Multi-modal Language Learning: Explorations on learning Japanese Vocabulary.

Pieter Wolfert, Lisa De Gersem, Ruben Janssens, Tony Belpaeme

Proceedings of the Companion of the 2024 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2024

Adaptive Second Language Tutoring Using Generative AI and a Social Robot.

Eva Verhelst, Ruben Janssens, Thomas Demeester, Tony Belpaeme

Proceedings of the Companion of the 2024 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2024

Multi-modal Language Models for Human-Robot Interaction.

Ruben Janssens

Proceedings of the Companion of the 2024 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2024

2023

Limitations of Audiovisual Speech on Robots for Second Language Pronunciation Learning.

Saya Amioka, Ruben Janssens, Pieter Wolfert, Qiaoqiao Ren, María J. Pinto Bernal, Tony Belpaeme

Proceedings of the 2023 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2023

2022

"Cool glasses, where did you get them?": Generating Visually Grounded Conversation Starters for Human-Robot Dialogue.

Ruben Janssens, Pieter Wolfert, Thomas Demeester, Tony Belpaeme

Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2022