Ghent University Academic Bibliography

Conference Paper
C1
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Seeing only when needed : a multimodal architecture for context-aware social dialogue

Maria Jose Pinto Bernal (UGent) and Tony Belpaeme (UGent)

(2026) HRI Companion '26: Companion Proceedings of the 21st ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction. p.701-705

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Journal Article
A2
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Low-cost social robot designs for education : a review

Edger P. Rutatola (UGent) , Frank C. Msonge, Remko Proesmans (UGent) , Koenraad Stroeken (UGent) and Tony Belpaeme (UGent)

(2026) FRONTIERS IN ROBOTICS AND AI. 13.

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P1
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Robot tutors or peers? Evaluating math learning and conformity with LLM-powered robots in Tanzanian primary schools

Edger P. Rutatola (UGent) , Elina C. Ntahomvukye, Koenraad Stroeken (UGent) and Tony Belpaeme (UGent)

(2026) PROCEEDINGS OF THE 21ST ACM/IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON HUMAN-ROBOT INTERACTION, HRI 2026. p.237-245

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A1
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Integrating visual context into language models for situated social conversation starters

Ruben Janssens (UGent) , Pieter Wolfert, Thomas Demeester (UGent) and Tony Belpaeme (UGent)

(2025) IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AFFECTIVE COMPUTING. 16(1). p.223-236

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A1
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Designing social robots with LLMs for engaging human interaction

Maria Jose Pinto Bernal (UGent) , Matthijs Biondina (UGent) and Tony Belpaeme (UGent)

(2025) APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL. 15(11).

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P1
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'Can you be my mum?' : manipulating social robots in the large language models era

Giulio Antonio Abbo (UGent) , Gloria Desideri, Tony Belpaeme (UGent) and Micol Spitale

(2025) 2025 20TH ACM/IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON HUMAN-ROBOT INTERACTION, HRI. In ACM IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction p.1181-1185

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P1
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Adaptive versus non-adaptive mathematics tutoring by social robots in Tanzanian primary schools

Elina C. Ntahomvukye, Edger P. Rutatola (UGent) , Morice Daudi, Mercy Mlay Komba, Koenraad Stroeken (UGent) and Tony Belpaeme (UGent)

(2025) 2025 34TH IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ROBOT AND HUMAN INTERACTIVE COMMUNICATION, RO-MAN. In IEEE RO-MAN p.1658-1663

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Adaptive second language tutoring using generative AI and a social robot

Eva Verhelst (UGent) , Ruben Janssens (UGent) , Thomas Demeester (UGent) , Tony Belpaeme (UGent) and [missing] Assoc Computing Machinery

(2024) COMPANION OF THE 2024 ACM/IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON HUMAN-ROBOT INTERACTION, HRI 2024 COMPANION. p.1080-1084

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Multi-modal language learning : explorations on learning Japanese vocabulary

Pieter Wolfert, Lisa De Gersem, Ruben Janssens (UGent) and Tony Belpaeme (UGent)

(2024) COMPANION OF THE 2024 ACM/IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON HUMAN-ROBOT INTERACTION, HRI 2024 COMPANION. p.1129-1133

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A2
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Interdisciplinary research and integration in social robotics

Erik Weber (UGent) and Julie Mennes (UGent)

(2024) ISSUES IN INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES. 42(1-2). p.153-174

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Book Chapter

Four types of anti-loneliness policies

Bouke De Vries (UGent)

(2022) Being social : the philosophy of social human. p.274-286

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Security risks of social robots used to persuade and manipulate : a proof of concept study

Pieter Wolfert, Jorre Deschuyteneer, Djamari Oetringer, Nicole Robinson and Tony Belpaeme (UGent)

(2020) HRI'20: COMPANION OF THE 2020 ACM/IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON HUMAN-ROBOT INTERACTION. In ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction p.523-525

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A personalized and platform-independent behavior control system for social robots in therapy : development and applications

Hoang-Long Cao, Greet Van de Perre, James Kennedy, Emmanuel Senft, Pablo Gomez Esteban, Albert De Beir, Ramona Simut, Tony Belpaeme (UGent) , Dirk Lefeber and Bram Vanderborght

(2019) IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COGNITIVE AND DEVELOPMENTAL SYSTEMS. 11(3). p.334-346

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Semantics-based platform for context-aware and personalized robot interaction in the internet of robotic things

Christof Mahieu (UGent) , Femke Ongenae (UGent) , Femke De Backere (UGent) , Pieter Bonte (UGent) , Filip De Turck (UGent) and Pieter Simoens (UGent)

(2019) JOURNAL OF SYSTEMS AND SOFTWARE. 149. p.138-157

Academic Bibliography

Seeing only when needed : a multimodal architecture for context-aware social dialogue

Low-cost social robot designs for education : a review

Robot tutors or peers? Evaluating math learning and conformity with LLM-powered robots in Tanzanian primary schools

Integrating visual context into language models for situated social conversation starters

Designing social robots with LLMs for engaging human interaction

'Can you be my mum?' : manipulating social robots in the large language models era

Adaptive versus non-adaptive mathematics tutoring by social robots in Tanzanian primary schools

Adaptive second language tutoring using generative AI and a social robot

Multi-modal language learning : explorations on learning Japanese vocabulary

Interdisciplinary research and integration in social robotics

Four types of anti-loneliness policies

Security risks of social robots used to persuade and manipulate : a proof of concept study

A personalized and platform-independent behavior control system for social robots in therapy : development and applications

Semantics-based platform for context-aware and personalized robot interaction in the internet of robotic things

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