| 2026 | HRI | Expressive Furhat: Generating Real-Time Facial Expressions for Human-Robot Dialogue with LLMs. | Giulio Antonio Abbo, Ruben Janssens, Seppe Van de Vreken, Tony Belpaeme |
| 2026 | HRI | Multimodal Large Language Models for Real-Time Situated Reasoning. | Giulio Antonio Abbo, Senne Lenaerts, Tony Belpaeme |
| 2026 | HRI | Seeing Only When Needed: A Multimodal Architecture for Context-Aware Social Dialogue. | Mara Jose Pinto-Bernal, Tony Belpaeme |
| 2026 | HRI | Robot Tutors or Peers? Evaluating Math Learning and Conformity with LLM-Powered Robots in Tanzanian Primary Schools. | Edger P. Rutatola, Elina C. Ntahomvukye, Koen Stroeken, Tony Belpaeme |
| 2026 | HRI | Towards a Usage-Based Pedagogy for Second Language Learning with Robots. | Eva Verhelst, Tony Belpaeme |
| 2025 | ACL | Human Alignment: How Much Do We Adapt to LLMs? | Tanguy Cazalets, Ruben Janssens, Tony Belpaeme, Joni Dambre |
| 2025 | HRI | I Was Blind but Now I See: Implementing Vision-Enabled Dialogue in Social Robots. | Giulio Antonio Abbo, Tony Belpaeme |
| 2025 | HRI | Values in Social Robots: Implementing Inclusive, Value-Aware Human-Robot Interactions. | Giulio Antonio Abbo, Tony Belpaeme |
| 2025 | HRI | "Can You be my Mum?": Manipulating Social Robots in the Large Language Models Era. | Giulio Antonio Abbo, Gloria Desideri, Tony Belpaeme, Micol Spitale |
| 2025 | HRI | Online Prediction of User Enjoyment in Human-Robot Dialogue with LLMs. | Ruben Janssens, Andr Pereira, Gabriel Skantze, Bahar Irfan, Tony Belpaeme |
| 2025 | HRI | Touched by ChatGPT: Using an LLM to Drive Affective Tactile Interaction. | Qiaoqiao Ren, Tony Belpaeme |
| 2025 | HRI | Large Language Models Cover for Speech Recognition Mistakes: Evaluating Conversational AI for Second Language Learners. | Eva Verhelst, Tony Belpaeme |
| 2025 | ITS | Leveraging Large Language Models for a Swahili Mathematics ITS in Tanzania: Designing Effective Prompts. | Edger P. Rutatola, Koen Stroeken, Tony Belpaeme |
| 2025 | RO-MAN | How Conversation Type and Presumed Message Source Influence Users' Trust towards Mental Health Conversational Agents: The Mediator Effect of Intentional Stance. | Chen Fang, Fu Guo, Tony Belpaeme |
| 2025 | RO-MAN | 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, Vronique Hoste, Tony Belpaeme |
| 2025 | RO-MAN | Adaptive Versus Non-adaptive Mathematics Tutoring by Social Robots in Tanzanian Primary Schools. | Elina C. Ntahomvukye, Edger P. Rutatola, Morice Daudi, Mercy Mlay Komba, Koen Stroeken, Tony Belpaeme |
| 2025 | RO-MAN | Speech Recognition and LLM Performance in Elderly Care Home Conversations. | Maria J. Pinto, Tony Belpaeme |
| 2025 | RO-MAN | Situated Haptic Interaction: Exploring the Role of Context in Affective Perception of Robotic Touch. | Qiaoqiao Ren, Tony Belpaeme |
| 2024 | HRI | Adaptive Second Language Tutoring Using Generative AI and a Social Robot. | Eva Verhelst, Ruben Janssens, Thomas Demeester, Tony Belpaeme |
| 2024 | HRI | Multi-modal Language Learning: Explorations on learning Japanese Vocabulary. | Pieter Wolfert, Lisa De Gersem, Ruben Janssens, Tony Belpaeme |
| 2024 | ICAART | Towards a Definition of Awareness for Embodied AI. | Giulio Antonio Abbo, Serena Marchesi, Kinga Ciupinska, Agnieszka Wykowska, Tony Belpaeme |
| 2024 | ICAART | AwarePrompt: Using Diffusion Models to Create Methods for Measuring Value-Aware AI Architectures. | Kinga Ciupinska, Serena Marchesi, Giulio Antonio Abbo, Tony Belpaeme, Agnieszka Wykowska |
| 2024 | RO-MAN | Predictive Turn-Taking: Leveraging Language Models to Anticipate Turn Transitions in Human-Robot Dialogue. | Maria J. Pinto, Tony Belpaeme |
| 2023 | HAI | Is the autonomous social robot within reach? | Tony Belpaeme |
| 2023 | HRI | Limitations of Audiovisual Speech on Robots for Second Language Pronunciation Learning. | Saya Amioka, Ruben Janssens, Pieter Wolfert, Qiaoqiao Ren, Mara J. Pinto-Bernal, Tony Belpaeme |
| 2023 | HRI | Low-latency Classification of Social Haptic Gestures Using Transformers. | Qiaoqiao Ren, Yuanbo Hou, Tony Belpaeme |
| 2023 | ICMI | "Am I listening?", Evaluating the Quality of Generated Data-driven Listening Motion. | Pieter Wolfert, Gustav Eje Henter, Tony Belpaeme |
| 2022 | HRI | "Cool glasses, where did you get them?": Generating Visually Grounded Conversation Starters for Human-Robot Dialogue. | Ruben Janssens, Pieter Wolfert, Thomas Demeester, Tony Belpaeme |
| 2021 | HRI | Communicative Function of Eye Blinks of Virtual Avatars May Not Translate onto Physical Platforms. | Djamari Oetringer, Pieter Wolfert, Jorre Deschuyteneer, Serge Thill, Tony Belpaeme |
| 2021 | ICMI | To Rate or Not To Rate: Investigating Evaluation Methods for Generated Co-Speech Gestures. | Pieter Wolfert, Jeffrey M. Girard, Taras Kucherenko, Tony Belpaeme |
| 2020 | HRI | Challenges of a Real-World HRI Study with Non-Native English Speakers: Can Personalisation Save the Day? | Bahar Irfan, Mehdi Hellou, Alexandre Mazel, Tony Belpaeme |
| 2020 | HRI | Security Risks of Social Robots Used to Persuade and Manipulate: A Proof of Concept Study. | Pieter Wolfert, Jorre Deschuyteneer, Djamari Oetringer, Nicole L. Robinson, Tony Belpaeme |
| 2020 | ICMI | The Wizard is Dead, Long live Data: towards Autonomous Social Behaviour using Data-driven Methods. | Tony Belpaeme |
| 2020 | RO-MAN | Using a Personalised Socially Assistive Robot for Cardiac Rehabilitation: A Long-Term Case Study. | Bahar Irfan, Nathalia Cspedes Gmez, Jonathan Casas, Emmanuel Senft, Luisa F. Gutirrez, Monica Rincon-Roncancio, Marcela Mnera, Tony Belpaeme, Carlos A. Cifuentes |
| 2019 | CogSci | Reinforcement Learning and Insight in the Artificial Pigeon. | Thomas R. Colin, Tony Belpaeme |
| 2019 | HRI | Second Language Tutoring Using Social Robots: L2TOR - The Movie. | Paul Vogt, Rianne van den Berghe, Mirjam de Haas, Laura Hoffmann, Junko Kanero, Ezgi Mamus, Jean-Marc Montanier, Cansu Oran, Ora Oudgenoeg-Paz, Daniel Hernndez Garca, Fotios Papadopoulos, Thorsten Schodde, Josje Verhagen, Christopher D. Wallbridge, Bram Willemsen, Jan de Wit, Tony Belpaeme, Tilbe Gksun, Stefan Kopp, Emiel Krahmer, Aylin C. Kntay, Paul M. Leseman, Amit Kumar Pandey |
| 2019 | HRI | Second Language Tutoring Using Social Robots: A Large-Scale Study. | Paul Vogt, Rianne van den Berghe, Mirjam de Haas, Laura Hoffmann, Junko Kanero, Ezgi Mamus, Jean-Marc Montanier, Cansu Oran, Ora Oudgenoeg-Paz, Daniel Hernndez Garca, Fotios Papadopoulos, Thorsten Schodde, Josje Verhagen, Christopher D. Wallbridge, Bram Willemsen, Jan de Wit, Tony Belpaeme, Tilbe Gksun, Stefan Kopp, Emiel Krahmer, Aylin C. Kntay, Paul M. Leseman, Amit Kumar Pandey |
| 2019 | HRI | Towards Generating Spatial Referring Expressions in a Social Robot: Dynamic vs Non-Ambiguous. | Christopher D. Wallbridge, Sverin Lemaignan, Emmanuel Senft, Tony Belpaeme |
| 2018 | BMVC | Accurate Eye Center Localization via Hierarchical Adaptive Convolution. | Haibin Cai, Bangli Liu, Zhaojie Ju, Serge Thill, Tony Belpaeme, Bram Vanderborght, Honghai Liu |
| 2018 | HAI | Using a Robot Peer to Encourage the Production of Spatial Concepts in a Second Language. | Christopher D. Wallbridge, Rianne van den Berghe, Daniel Hernndez Garca, Junko Kanero, Sverin Lemaignan, Charlotte Edmunds, Tony Belpaeme |
| 2018 | HRI | Social Assistive Robot for Cardiac Rehabilitation: A Pilot Study with Patients with Angioplasty. | Jonathan Casas, Bahar Irfan, Emmanuel Senft, Luisa F. Gutirrez, Monica Rincon-Roncancio, Marcela Mnera, Tony Belpaeme, Carlos A. Cifuentes |
| 2018 | HRI | Social Psychology and Human-Robot Interaction: An Uneasy Marriage. | Bahar Irfan, James Kennedy, Sverin Lemaignan, Fotios Papadopoulos, Emmanuel Senft, Tony Belpaeme |
| 2018 | IROS | UNDERWORLDS: Cascading Situation Assessment for Robots. | Sverin Lemaignan, Yoan Sallami, Christopher Wallhridge, Aurlie Clodic, Tony Belpaeme, Rachid Alami |
| 2017 | HAI | Qualitative Review of Object Recognition Techniques for Tabletop Manipulation. | Christopher D. Wallbridge, Sverin Lemaignan, Tony Belpaeme |
| 2017 | HAI | Continuous Multi-Modal Interaction Causes Human-Robot Alignment. | Sebastian Wallktter, Michael Joannou, Samuel Westlake, Tony Belpaeme |
| 2017 | HRI | Workshop on Robots for Learning: R4L. | Wafa Johal, Paul Vogt, James Kennedy, Mirjam de Haas, Ana Paiva, Ginevra Castellano, Sandra Y. Okita, Fumihide Tanaka, Tony Belpaeme, Pierre Dillenbourg |
| 2017 | HRI | Child Speech Recognition in Human-Robot Interaction: Evaluations and Recommendations. | James Kennedy, Sverin Lemaignan, Caroline Montassier, Pauline Lavalade, Bahar Irfan, Fotios Papadopoulos, Emmanuel Senft, Tony Belpaeme |
| 2017 | HRI | Leveraging Human Inputs in Interactive Machine Learning for Human Robot Interaction. | Emmanuel Senft, Sverin Lemaignan, Paul E. Baxter, Tony Belpaeme |
| 2016 | HRI | From Characterising Three Years of HRI to Methodology and Reporting Recommendations. | Paul Baxter, James Kennedy, Emmanuel Senft, Sverin Lemaignan, Tony Belpaeme |
| 2016 | HRI | Social Robot Tutoring for Child Second Language Learning. | James Kennedy, Paul Baxter, Emmanuel Senft, Tony Belpaeme |
| 2016 | HRI | Heart vs Hard Drive: Children Learn More From a Human Tutor Than a Social Robot. | James Kennedy, Paul Baxter, Emmanuel Senft, Tony Belpaeme |
| 2016 | HRI | Providing a Robot with Learning Abilities Improves its Perception by Users. | Emmanuel Senft, Paul Baxter, James Kennedy, Sverin Lemaignan, Tony Belpaeme |
| 2016 | HRI | Socially Contingent Humanoid Robot Head Behaviour Results in Increased Charity Donations. | Paul Wills, Paul Baxter, James Kennedy, Emmanuel Senft, Tony Belpaeme |
| 2015 | HRI | The Robot Who Tried Too Hard: Social Behaviour of a Robot Tutor Can Negatively Affect Child Learning. | James Kennedy, Paul Baxter, Tony Belpaeme |
| 2015 | HRI | Head Pose Estimation is an Inadequate Replacement for Eye Gaze in Child-Robot Interaction. | James Kennedy, Paul Baxter, Tony Belpaeme |
| 2015 | HRI | When is it Better to Give Up?: Towards Autonomous Action Selection for Robot Assisted ASD Therapy. | Emmanuel Senft, Paul Baxter, James Kennedy, Tony Belpaeme |
| 2015 | ICML | Human-Guided Learning of Social Action Selection for Robot-Assisted Therapy. | Emmanuel Senft, Paul Baxter, Tony Belpaeme |
| 2014 | HRI | Tracking gaze over time in HRI as a proxy for engagement and attribution of social agency. | Paul Baxter, James Kennedy, Anna-Lisa Vollmer, Joachim de Greeff, Tony Belpaeme |
| 2014 | HRI | Child-robot interaction in the wild: field testing activities of the ALIZ-E project. | Joachim de Greeff, Olivier A. Blanson Henkemans, Aafke Fraaije, Lara Solms, Noel Wigdor, Bert P. B. Bierman, Joris B. Janssen, Rosemarijn Looije, Paul Baxter, Mark A. Neerincx, Tony Belpaeme |
| 2014 | HRI | Children comply with a robot's indirect requests. | James Kennedy, Paul Baxter, Tony Belpaeme |
| 2014 | HRI | The chatbot strikes back. | James Kennedy, Joachim de Greeff, Robin Read, Paul Baxter, Tony Belpaeme |
| 2014 | HRI | Situational context directs how people affectively interpret robotic non-linguistic utterances. | Robin Read, Tony Belpaeme |
| 2014 | HRI | Non-linguistic utterances should be used alongside language, rather than on their own or as a replacement. | Robin Read, Tony Belpaeme |
| 2014 | SMC | A web based Multi-Modal Interface for elderly users of the Robot-Era multi-robot services. | Alessandro G. Di Nuovo, Frank Broz, Tony Belpaeme, Angelo Cangelosi, Filippo Cavallo, Raffaele Esposito, Paolo Dario |
| 2014 | RO-MAN | What a robotic companion could do for a diabetic child. | Ilaria Baroni, Marco Nalin, Paul Baxter, Clara Pozzi, Elettra Oleari, Alberto Sanna, Tony Belpaeme |
| 2014 | RO-MAN | Gestural art: A Steady State Visual Evoked Potential (SSVEP) based Brain Computer Interface to express intentions through a robotic hand. | Roberto Meattini, Umberto Scarcia, Claudio Melchiorri, Tony Belpaeme |
| 2013 | ACII | Constraining Content in Mediated Unstructured Social Interactions: Studies in the Wild. | James Kennedy, Paul Baxter, Tony Belpaeme |
| 2013 | HRI | Emergence of turn-taking in unstructured child-robot social interactions. | Paul Baxter, Rachel Wood, Ilaria Baroni, James Kennedy, Marco Nalin, Tony Belpaeme |
| 2013 | HRI | People interpret robotic non-linguistic utterances categorically. | Robin Read, Tony Belpaeme |
| 2013 | HRI | Using the AffectButton to measure affect in child and adult-robot interaction. | Robin Read, Tony Belpaeme |
| 2012 | HRI | A touchscreen-based 'sandtray' to facilitate, mediate and contextualise human-robot social interaction. | Paul Baxter, Rachel Wood, Tony Belpaeme |
| 2012 | HRI | How to use non-linguistic utterances to convey emotion in child-robot interaction. | Robin Read, Tony Belpaeme |
| 2011 | CogSci | Modeling U Shaped Performance Curves in Ongoing Development. | Anthony F. Morse, Tony Belpaeme, Angelo Cangelosi, Caroline Floccia |
| 2011 | CogSci | An Embodied Developmental Robotic Model of Interactions between Numbers and Space. | Marek Rucinski, Angelo Cangelosi, Tony Belpaeme |
| 2011 | HRI | Lighthead robotic face. | Frdric Delaunay, Joachim de Greeff, Tony Belpaeme |
| 2011 | ICMI | Child-robot interaction in the wild: advice to the aspiring experimenter. | Raquel Ros, Marco Nalin, Rachel Wood, Paul Baxter, Rosemarijn Looije, Yiannis Demiris, Tony Belpaeme, Alessio Giusti, Clara Pozzi |
| 2010 | HRI | A study of a retro-projected robotic face and its effectiveness for gaze reading by humans. | Frdric Delaunay, Joachim de Greeff, Tony Belpaeme |
| 2009 | RO-MAN | Towards retro-projected robot faces: An alternative to mechatronic and android faces. | Frdric Delaunay, Joachim de Greeff, Tony Belpaeme |
| 2006 | RO-MAN | A model for inferring the intention in imitation tasks. | Bart Jansen, Tony Belpaeme |
| 2001 | IJCAI | Simulating the Formation of Color Categories. | Tony Belpaeme |
| 1999 | RoboCup | The VUB AI-lab RoboCup'99 Small League Team. | Andreas Birk, Thomas Walle, Tony Belpaeme, Holger Kenn |
| 1998 | RoboCup | The Small League RoboCup Team of the VUB AI-Lab. | Andreas Birk, Thomas Walle, Tony Belpaeme, Johan Parent, Tom De Vlaminck, Holger Kenn |