Hatice Gunes
Full Professor of Affective Intelligence and Robotics
Leads the AFAR Lab on affective computing and social signal processing, building socio-emotionally intelligent social robots and adaptive human-robot interaction.
Hatice Gunes's lab at Cambridge works on social computing & responsible AI, human-robot interaction & assistive robots and affective & health speech. 76 papers since 2023, 18 at top venues, mostly HRI and TAFFC. 3 PhD students and 4 master's students. 11 alumni. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 20/ year
- at T1 venues
- 24%
- PhD students
- 3
- MS students
- 4
- alumni listed
- 11
Papers by yearfrom DBLP, 2023–2026
- 14 papers2026 · T1 4 · collecting
- 19 papers2025 · T1 3
- 25 papers2024 · T1 6
- 18 papers2023 · T1 5
T1 venuesOtherVenues: HRI, TAFFC, ACM MM, IJCAI, AAAI
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Human-robot interaction & assistive robots31 papers
- Social computing & responsible AI10 papers
- social7 papers
- Affective & health speech4 papers
- social robots4 papers
Paper list
From DBLP.
202614 papers
- HRI CompanionAdvancing Child Wellbeing Assessment with AI and Robotics across At-Risk Populations (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Trans. Circuits Syst. Video Technol.AsyReC: A Multimodal Graph-Based Framework for Spatio-Temporal Asymmetric Dyadic Relationship Classification (opens in a new tab)
- RO-MANDesiderata for Foundation Models in Social Robots: Capturing Embodied and Social Aspects for Benchmarking (opens in a new tab)
- HRI CompanionDesigning Social Robots with Ethical, User-Adaptive Explainability in the Era of Foundation Models (opens in a new tab)
- RO-MANDo Robot-Led Support Conversations Align with Human Therapy Dialogue? (opens in a new tab)
- HRI CompanionEquitable Robotics for Wellbeing (Eq-RW) (opens in a new tab)
- HRI CompanionErrors, Mistakes, and Failures in Humans and Robots (opens in a new tab)
- RO-MANEvaluating Human and LLM-Generated Thematic Analysis in HRI for Vulnerable Populations: A Comparative and Ethical Analysis (opens in a new tab)
- IJCV (T1)Graph in Graph Neural Network (opens in a new tab)
- TAFFCPast, Present, and Future: A Survey of the Evolution of Affective Robotics for Well-Being (opens in a new tab)
- HRI (T1)Reimagining Social Robots as Recommender Systems: Foundations, Framework, and Applications (opens in a new tab)
- TAFFCReversible Graph Neural Network-Based Reaction Distribution Learning for Multiple Appropriate Facial Reactions Generation (opens in a new tab)
202519 papers
- ACM Trans. Hum. Robot Interact.A Longitudinal Study of Child Wellbeing Assessment via Online Interactions with a Social Robot (opens in a new tab)
- ACM MMERR@HRI 2.0 Challenge: Multimodal Detection of Errors and Failures in Human-Robot Conversations (opens in a new tab)
- RO-MANExploring Causality for HRI: A Case Study on Robotic Mental Well-being Coaching (opens in a new tab)
- FGGender Fairness of Machine Learning Algorithms for Pain Detection (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)GRACE: Generating Socially Appropriate Robot Actions Leveraging LLMs and Human Explanations (opens in a new tab)
- MiGA@IJCAIGraphAU-Pain: Graph-based Action Unit Representation for Pain Intensity Estimation (opens in a new tab)
- CUIHow Large Language Models Classify and Semantically Explain Facial Expressions from Valence-Arousal Values (opens in a new tab)
- ISBIMachine Learning Fairness for Depression Detection Using EEG Data (opens in a new tab)
- ACM Trans. Hum. Robot Interact.Participant Perceptions of a Robotic Coach Conducting Positive Psychology Exercises: A Qualitative Analysis (opens in a new tab)
- AAAI (T1)PerReactor: Offline Personalised Multiple Appropriate Facial Reaction Generation (opens in a new tab)
- ACM MMREACT 2025: the Third Multiple Appropriate Facial Reaction Generation Challenge (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph.ReactFace: Online Multiple Appropriate Facial Reaction Generation in Dyadic Interactions (opens in a new tab)
202425 papers
- HRI (T1)"Oh, Sorry, I Think I Interrupted You": Designing Repair Strategies for Robotic Longitudinal Well-being Coaching (opens in a new tab)
- TAFFCAn Open-Source Benchmark of Deep Learning Models for Audio-Visual Apparent and Self-Reported Personality Recognition (opens in a new tab)
- Int. J. Soc. RoboticsAnalysing Children's Responses from Multiple Modalities During Robot-Assisted Assessment of Mental Wellbeing (opens in a new tab)
- RO-MANAppropriateness of LLM-equipped Robotic Well-being Coach Language in the Workplace: A Qualitative Evaluation (opens in a new tab)
- TAFFCAutomatic Context-Aware Inference of Engagement in HMI: A Survey (opens in a new tab)
- HRI (T1)Causal-HRI: Causal Learning for Human-Robot Interaction (opens in a new tab)
- ICMIERR@HRI 2024 Challenge: Multimodal Detection of Errors and Failures in Human-Robot Interactions (opens in a new tab)
- IDCExpert Insights on Robots for Safeguarding Children: How (not) and Why (not)? (opens in a new tab)
- IJCAI (T1)FairReFuse: Referee-Guided Fusion for Multi-Modal Causal Fairness in Depression Detection (opens in a new tab)
- Int. J. Soc. RoboticsGuest Editorial: Special Issue on Embodied Agents for Wellbeing (opens in a new tab)
- RO-MANHRI Wasn't Built In a Day: A Call To Action For Responsible HRI Research (opens in a new tab)
- ACIILearning Graph Representation for Predicting Student Mental Wellbeing in Robot Assisted Journal Writing Context (opens in a new tab)
202318 papers
- ACII"It's not Fair!" - Fairness for a Small Dataset of Multi-modal Dyadic Mental Well-being Coaching (opens in a new tab)
- ACIIWA Framework for Automatic Personality Recognition in Dyadic Interactions (opens in a new tab)
- HRI (T1)Adaptive Robotic Mental Well-being Coaches (opens in a new tab)
- RO-MANAffective Computing for Human-Robot Interaction Research: Four Critical Lessons for the Hitchhiker (opens in a new tab)
- WACV WorkshopCausal Structure Learning of Bias for Fair Affect Recognition (opens in a new tab)
- TAFFCDomain-Incremental Continual Learning for Mitigating Bias in Facial Expression and Action Unit Recognition (opens in a new tab)
- MRAC@MMFairness for Affective and Wellbeing Computing (opens in a new tab)
- RO-MANFederated Continual Learning for Socially Aware Robotics (opens in a new tab)
- RO-MANHumanoid Robots for Wellbeing Assessment in Children: How Does Anxiety towards the Robot Affect Perceptions of Robot Role, Behaviour and Capabilities? (opens in a new tab)
- FGLatent Generative Replay for Resource-Efficient Continual Learning of Facial Expressions (opens in a new tab)
- TAFFCLearning Person-Specific Cognition From Facial Reactions for Automatic Personality Recognition (opens in a new tab)
- HRI (T1)Lifelong Learning and Personalization in Long-Term Human-Robot Interaction (LEAP-HRI): Adaptivity for All (opens in a new tab)
Where alumni went11 listed
Apply to CambridgeMichaelmas 2027
PhD in Computer Science
- Round
- Funding round (8 Dec 2026)
- Opens
- GRE
- See program page
- English
- See program page
- Fee
- See program page
Confirmed on the program page.
Similar labsnearest by research summary
- GBOxford
Xiaowen Dong
- Signal processing & information theory
- USUSC
Salman Avestimehr
- Trustworthy & safe ML
- CNSJTU
Haibing Guan
- Trustworthy & safe ML
- CNTsinghua
Yuxiao Dong
- Graph mining & networks
- GBUCL
Miguel Rodrigues
- Learning theory & optimization
- CNTsinghua
Shuran Zheng
- Reasoning & neuro-symbolic AI
Your notes
Save this lab to keep notes.
Data
Checked against the lab homepage.
- Collected
- Verified
- Papers
- DBLP
- Members
- Lab homepage
- Alumni
- Lab homepage
Tiers are venue classifications, not lab rankings.
Cambridgecloses