Introduction
Call for Papers
Technical Programme
Important Dates
Registration
Program Commitee
Invited Speakers
Instructions for Authors
About Edinburgh

Web link to Workshop Papers.

Final programme (PDF format).

Maps of workshop site and meal venues: Large scale map, small scale map (PDF format).

Saturday, August 10, 2002

(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)

Sunday, August 11, 2002

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).

Last revised: 2 August 2002