Epirob 2006 – Tentative Schedule

Wednesday 20 September 2006

8h00-9h00 Registration Desk

9h00-9h15 Introduction

Foreword by Jacqueline Nadel

Kaplan and Oudeyer: Trends in Epigenetic Robotics: Atlas 2006

9h15-10h15 Invited Talk: Rochat : Developing Self-Consciousness and Values (Chair : Nadel)

10h15-10h45 : Coffee Break

10h45-11h45 Session Emergence of the self (Chair : Kaplan)

Gold and Scassellati: Deictic Pronoun Learning and mirror self-identification

Edsinger and Kemp: What can I control? A framework for robot self-discovery

11h45-13h00 Poster Spotlight (Chair : Revel)

Cleveland and Striano: Object Processing in 4- and 9-Month Infants: Functional Outcomes of Social Interaction

Munoz and Vincze: A Cognitive Model of Gaze Following and Object Permanence

Duquette, Mercier, Michaud: Investigating the Use of a Mobile Robotic Toy as an Imitation Agent for Children with Autism

Orseau: Think aloud imitation learning

Ogino, Watanabe, Asada: Categorization of Internal State and Facial Expression through Intuitive Parenting

Morimoto and Ikegami: Development of Haptic Perception by Homogeneous Active Elements

Goga and Billard: Visual attention modeling as constraint satisfaction

Kozima, Nakagawa, Yasuda: Wowing together: What facilitates social interactions in children with autistic spectrum disorders

Hafner and Nagai: Imitation Behaviour Evaluation in Human Robot Interaction

Andry and Revel: Modeling Synchrony for Perception-Action systems coupling

Balkenius and Johansson: A Developmental Approach to Dynamic Scene Understanding

Eppendahl and Kruusmaa: Obstacle Avoidance as a Consequence of Suppressing Irreversible Actions

Zukow-Goldring: Assisted Imitation: Beginning to Be an Intelligent Agent

Taniguchi et Sawagari: Incremental acquisition of compositional schemata based on behavioral learning

Giovannagelli et Gaussier: Learning to navigate, progress and self-evaluation

Aryananda: Attending to Learn and Learning to Attend

Poulin-Dubois: Infant's attribution of goals and intentions to robots: cue-based or knowledge-based?

13h00-14h00 Buffet LUNCH

14h00-15h00 Invited Talk: Wicker : The typical brain, the autistic brain, and the behaviour of others (Chair : Nadel) 

15h00 - 16h30 Session Interaction studies (Chair : Kozima)

Nadel, Simon, Canet, Soussignan, Blancard, Canamero, Gaussier: Human response to an expressive robot

Pioggia, Ferro, Sica, Dalle Mura, Casalini, Ahluwalia, De Rossi, Igliozzi, Muratori : Imitation and Learning of the Emotional Behaviour: Towards an android-based treatment for people with autism

Mirza, Nehaniv, te Boerkhorst, Dautenhahn: Peekaboo: Effect of Experience Length on the interaction history driven ontogeny of a robot

16h30 - 17h30 : Poster session with Coffee  

17h30 - 19h30 : Tutorial Nadel/Gaussier/Revel

Thursday 21 September 2006

9h00 - 10h00: Invited Talk: Barto : Intrinsic Motivation, Cumulative Learning, and Computational  Reinforcement Learning (Chair : Oudeyer)

10h00 - 10h30 : Coffee Break

10h30 - 12h 30: Session Motivation, value systems, emotions (Chair : Oudeyer)

Mikhailova, von Seelen, Goerick : Usage of general development principles for adaptation of reactive behavior

Blanchard and Canamero : Development of affect to modulate exploration and imitation behavior

Papudesi and Huber : Learning behaviorally grounded state representations for reinforcement learning agents

Franklin, Ramamurthy : Motivations, Values and Emotions: 3 sides of the same coin

12h30 - 14h00 Buffet Lunch

14h00 - 15h00 Invited Talk: Schoener : Developing embodied cognition: Dynamic Field Theory and its application to experiment and robotics (Chair : Gaussier)

15h00 - 16h00 Session Dynamics of development (Chair : Gaussier)

Pitti, Lungarella, Kuniyoshi : Synchronization: Adaptive Mechanism Linking Internal and External Dynamics

Pezzulo and Calvi : Toward a perceptual symbol system

16h00 - 17h30 Poster session with Coffee

17h30 – 18h00 : Karp (European Commission) : Advanced Robotics Research at the European Level

20h00 Banquet on a boat.

Friday 22 September 2006

9h00 - 11H00 Session tutorial Prince/Balkenius : Featural Processing of Auditory and Visual Inputs for Epigenetic Robots

11H00 – 11H30 Coffee Break

11h30 - 13h00 Session Active Vision (Chair : Balkenius)

Ponticorvo and Miglino: Developmental Pathways in the Assimilation of non-geometric information for orientation in children: a neurobotic model

Dankers, Barnes, Zelinsky : Primate Structures in Synthetic Active Visual Saliency

Weber and Triesch : A possible representation of reward in the learning of saccades

13h00 - 14h00 Buffet Lunch

14h00 - 15h00: Invited Talk: Adolph : Learning in the Development of Action (Chair : Berthouze)

15h00 - 16h00 Session Sensorimotor development (Chair : Berthouze)

Natale, Torres-Jara : A sensitive approach to grasping

Lee, Meng and Chao : An approach for developmental robotics

16h00 - 16h30 : Coffee Break

16h30 - 17h30 Session Intermodality (Chair : Prince) 

Ogata, Hattori, Kozima, Komatani, Okuno : Generation of Robot Motions from Environmental Sounds using inter-modality mapping by RNNPB

Prepin, Simon, Mahé, Revel, Nadel : Modelling and testing the effects of a maternal mismatch of face and voice on 6-month-olds interactions

17h30 - 18h00 Closing remarks

18h50 Louvre visit