(Posters to be up by 10:00am today).
Onsite registration is with SAB and is available starting 19:30, Sunday
August 4th (see also the SAB
program).
| 8:30-8:55 |
Christopher G. Prince-- Introduction
(pdf format) Opening
speech |
| 8:55-9:00 |
Hideki Kozima-- Sponsor Acknowledgement (Communications
Research Lab) |
|
9:00-10:00
Session Chair:
Chris Prince
|
INVITED TALK
Luc Steels-- Evolving External Representations
|
| 10:00-10:30 |
COFFEE |
|
Session Chair:
Chris Prince
|
Theoretical and Conceptual Issues |
| 10:30-11:00 |
Razvan V. Florian-- Why it is important to
build robots capable of doing science
|
| 11:00-11:30 |
Carlos Gershenson-- Behaviour-based knowledge
systems: An epigenetic path from behaviour to knowledge |
Session Chair:
Chris Prince |
Complex Skills |
| 11:30-12:00 |
Giorgio Metta and Paul Fitzpatrick-- Better
vision through manipulation |
|
12:00-13:30
Session Chair: Christian Balkenius
|
Poster Session and Workshop Lunch (Buffet)
Poster authors should eat, but be generally available near their
posters.
|
| Session Chair: Christian Balkenius |
Developmental Architectures |
| 13:30-14:00 |
Andrea Kulakov and Georgi Stojanov-- Structures,
inner values, hierarchies and stages: Essentials for developmental
robot architectures |
| 14:00-14:30 |
Ulrich Nehmzow-- Physically embedded GA learning
in multi-robot scenarios: The PEGA algorithm |
| 14:30-15:00 |
Akitoshi Ogawa and Takashi Omori-- Looking
for a suitable strategy for each problem - Multiple tasks approach
to navigation learning task |
Session Chair:
Yiannis Demiris |
Sensory-Motor Integration and Imitation |
| 15:00-15:30 |
Pierre Andry, Philippe Gaussier and Jacqueline Nadel--
From visuo-motor development to low-level imitation |
| 15:30-16:00 |
Max Lungarella and Luc Berthouze-- Adaptivity
through physical immaturity |
| 16:00-16:30 |
COFFEE |
Session Chair:
Yiannis Demiris |
Theoretical and Conceptual Issues |
| 16:30-17:00 |
Jessica Lindblom and Tom Ziemke-- Social situatedness:
Vygotsky and beyond |
| 17:00-17:30 |
Matthew Schlesinger-- A lesson from robotics:
Modeling infants as autonomous agents |
|
17:30-18:30
Session Chair:
Yiannis Demiris
|
INVITED TALK
Juyang (John) Weng and Yilu Zhang-- Developmental Robotics
- A New Paradigm
|
| 19:30- |
Workshop Dinner (St. Leonards Hall) |
|
9:00-10:00
Session Chair: Hideki Kozima
|
INVITED TALK
Colwyn Trevarthen-- Can a Robot Hear Music? Can a Robot
Dance? Can a Robot Tell What it Knows or Intends to Do? Can it Feel
Pride or Shame in Company? -- Questions of the Nature of Human Vitality
|
| 10:00-10:30 |
COFFEE |
| Session Chair: Hideki Kozima |
Sensory-Motor Integration and Imitation |
| 10:30-11:00 |
Yuval Marom, George Maistros and Gillian Hayes--
Toward a mirror system for the development of socially-mediated skills
|
| 11:00-11:30 |
Toru Nakata-- Generation of whole-body expressive
movement based on somatical theories |
| Session Chair: Hideki Kozima |
Complex Skills |
| 11:30-12:00 |
Paulina Varshavskaya-- Behavior-based early
language development on a humanoid robot |
| Session Chair: Hideki Kozima |
Developmental Architectures |
| 12:00-12:30 |
Xiao Huang and John Weng-- Novelty and reinforcement
learning in the value system of developmental robots |
| 12:30-14:00 |
Workshop Lunch (Biddie Milligans)
|
| 14:30-15:30 |
Business meeting for workshop (Biddie Milligans; all
attendees are welcome).
Agenda: Third EPIROB; Topics: Year (2003 or 2004), Location
(North America, Japan, or Europe), Organizing committee, Invited
speakers, EPIROB emphasis.
|
| 15:30- |
Informal activities |
(Posters to be taken down by 12:30 today).