publications

Home of my papers.

2025

  1. ICSR
    Child Speech Recognition in Human-Robot Interaction: Problem Solved?
    Ruben Janssens, Eva Verhelst, Giulio Antonio Abbo, and 3 more authors
    2025
    International Conference on Social Robotics
  2. Best Paper Award 🏆
    Conveying Emotions to Robots through Touch and Sound
    Qiaoqiao Ren, Remko Proesmans, Frederick Bossuyt, and 3 more authors
    2025
    International Conference on Social Robotics
  3. ICASSP
    Sound-Based Recognition of Touch Gestures and Emotions for Enhanced Human-Robot Interaction
    Yuanbo Hou, Qiaoqiao Ren, Wenwu Wang, and 1 more author
    2025
    IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
  4. IEEE/ACM HRI 2025
    Touched by ChatGPT: Using an LLM to Drive Affective Tactile Interaction
    Qiaoqiao Ren, and Tony Belpaeme
    2025
    Companion of the 2025 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction

2024

  1. ICASSP
    Multi-level graph learning for audio event classification and human-perceived annoyance rating prediction
    Yuanbo Hou, Qiaoqiao Ren, Siyang Song, and 3 more authors
    In ICASSP 2024-2024 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2024
  2. IEEE RAL
    No More Mumbles: Enhancing Robot Intelligibility Through Speech Adaptation
    Qiaoqiao Ren, Yuanbo Hou, Dick Botteldooren, and 1 more author
    IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2024
  3. under review
    Soundscape Captioning using Sound Affective Quality Network and Large Language Model
    Yuanbo Hou, Qiaoqiao Ren, Andrew Mitchell, and 4 more authors
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.05914, 2024
  4. IJSR
    Tactile interaction with social robots influences attitudes and behaviour
    Qiaoqiao Ren, and Tony Belpaeme
    International Journal of Social Robotics, 2024

2023

  1. IEEE/ACM HRI 2023
    Low-latency Classification of Social Haptic Gestures Using Transformers
    Qiaoqiao Ren, Yuanbo Hou, and Tony Belpaeme
    In Companion of the 2023 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2023
  2. IEEE/ACM HRI 2023
    Limitations of Audiovisual Speech on Robots for Second Language Pronunciation Learning
    Saya Amioka, Ruben Janssens, Pieter Wolfert, and 3 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 2023 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2023
  3. MDPI sensors
    Behavioural Models of Risk-Taking in Human–Robot Tactile Interactions
    Qiaoqiao Ren, Yuanbo Hou, Dick Botteldooren, and 1 more author
    Sensors, 2023
  4. INTERSPEEH 2023
    Joint Prediction of Audio Event and Annoyance Rating in an Urban Soundscape by Hierarchical Graph Representation Learning
    Yuanbo Hou, Siyang Song, Cheng Luo, and 6 more authors
    In INTERSPEEH 2023, 2023
  5. Forum Acusticum
    Exploring annoyance in a soundscape context by joint prediction of sound source and annoyance
    Yuanbo Hou, Andrew Mitchell, Qiaoqiao Ren, and 3 more authors
    In Proceedings of Forum Acusticum, 2023
  6. JASA
    AI-based soundscape analysis: Jointly identifying sound sources and predicting annoyance
    Yuanbo Hou, Qiaoqiao Ren, Huizhong Zhang, and 4 more authors
    The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2023

2022

  1. ICSR
    Tactile interaction with a robot leads to increased risk-taking
    Qiaoqiao Ren, and Tony Belpaeme
    In International Conference on Social Robotics, 2022