Hello and Welcome to my website. I am a PhD student at KTH Royal Institute of Technology at the Division of Speech, Music and Hearing. I study a three-way hinge connecting Cognitive/Psycho-Linguistics, Robotics, Pedagogy and Education. You can find more information about my PhD project in my KTH Profile.

Publications

Personalized Language Learning with an LLM Chatbot: Effects of Immediate vs. Delayed Corrective Feedback

Alireza M. Kamelabad, Beatrice Turano, Mattias Lundin, Gabriel Skantze — Frontiers in Education (2026)

Feb 24, 2026 Journal Article

Comparing Monolingual and Bilingual Social Robots as Conversational Practice Companions in Language Learning

Alireza M. Kamelabad, Elin Inoue, Gabriel Skantze — Proceedings of the 2025 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (2025)

Mar 4, 2025 Conference Paper

Conformity and Trust in Multi-party vs. Individual Human-Robot Interaction

Alireza M. Kamelabad, Olov Engwall, Gabriel Skantze — ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA '24) (2024)

Sep 16, 2024 Conference Paper

The Question Is Not Whether; It Is How!

Alireza M. Kamelabad — Companion of the 2024 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (2024)

Mar 11, 2024 Workshop Paper

I Learn Better Alone! Collaborative and Individual Word Learning With a Child and Adult Robot

Alireza M. Kamelabad, Gabriel Skantze — Proceedings of the 2023 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (2023)

Mar 13, 2023 Conference Paper

Active Word Learning through Self-supervision

Lieke Gelderloos, Alireza Mahmoudi Kamelabad, Afra Alishahi — Proceedings for the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (2020)

Jul 29, 2020 Conference Paper

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My Participation in the 20th edition of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2025)

Feb 27, 2025 Conference

My Participation in 24th ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents

The materials of my presentations at the 24th ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents.

Sep 12, 2024 Conference

Why I'm Closing My Twitter Account

Closing my Twitter account - Exploring the reasons behind my decision to bid farewell to the social media platform. #SocialMedia #Twitter #Decision

Aug 25, 2024 News

Understanding Yoked Control Groups in Experimental Research

A comprehensive guide to the concept of yoked control groups, their purpose, and how they are used in experimental research, particularly in psychology and behavioral sciences.

Aug 20, 2024 Research, Methods

The Role of Noises in Chinese Dining Etiquette: A Cultural Insight

Aug 20, 2024 General

Commenting on Your Thesis

In this article I describe how I comment on your thesis and how you can act on it.

May 24, 2024 Supervision, Master

My Favorite Research Tools

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