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Researcher

Ruben Janssens

Publications & Research Data

Awards & Distinctions

15 Results

2025

Automatic assessment of speaking proficiency for language practice robots

Eva VerhelstPieter LecompteRuben JanssensVanessa De WildeTony Belpaeme

Child speech recognition in human-robot interaction : problem solved?

Ruben JanssensEva VerhelstGiulio Antonio AbboQiaoqiao RenMaria Jose Pinto BernalTony Belpaeme

Enabling autonomous and adaptive social robots in education : a vision for the application of generative AI

Eva VerhelstRuben JanssensTony Belpaeme

Bookchapter in Social robots in education : how to effectively introduce social robots into classrooms

Human alignment : how much do we adapt to {LLM}s?

Tanguy CazaletsRuben JanssensTony BelpaemeJoni Dambre

Integrating visual context into language models for situated social conversation starters

Ruben JanssensPieter WolfertThomas DemeesterTony Belpaeme

A1 Journal Article in IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AFFECTIVE COMPUTING

Online prediction of user enjoyment in human-robot dialogue with LLMs

Ruben JanssensAndré PereiraGabriel SkantzeBahar IrfanTony Belpaeme

Why robots are bad at detecting their mistakes : limitations of miscommunication detection in human-robot dialogue

Ruben JanssensJens De BockSofie LabatEva VerhelstVeronique HosteTony Belpaeme

2024

Adaptive second language tutoring using generative AI and a social robot

Eva VerhelstRuben JanssensThomas DemeesterTony Belpaeme[missing] Assoc Computing Machinery

Child speech recognition in human-robot interaction : problem solved?

Ruben JanssensEva VerhelstGiulio Antonio AbboQiaoqiao RenMaria Jose Pinto BernalTony Belpaeme

Multi-modal language learning : explorations on learning Japanese vocabulary

Pieter WolfertLisa De GersemRuben JanssensTony Belpaeme

Multi-modal language models for human-robot interaction

Ruben Janssens[missing] Assoc Computing Machinery

Predicting errors and failures in human-robot interaction from multi-modal temporal data

Ruben JanssensEva VerhelstMathieu De Coster

2023

Limitations of audiovisual speech on robots for second language pronunciation learning

Saya AmiokaRuben JanssensPieter WolfertQiaoqiao RenMaria Jose Pinto BernalTony Belpaeme

2022

'Cool glasses, where did you get them?' : generating visually grounded conversation starters for human-robot dialogue

Ruben JanssensPieter WolfertThomas DemeesterTony Belpaeme

Visual conversation starters for human-robot interaction

Ruben JanssensThomas DemeesterTony Belpaeme