Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Epigenetic Robotics

July, 22-24
Nara, Japan

Berthouze, L., Kaplan, F., Kozima, H., Yano, Y., Konczak, J., Metta, G., Nadel, J., Sandini, G., Stojanov, G., and Balkenius, C. (2005). Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Epigenetic Robotics: Modeling Cognitive Development in Robotic Systems. Lund University Cognitive Studies, 123. Lund: LUCS.

ISSN 1101-8453
ISBN 91-974741-4-2
ISRN LUHFDA/HFKO--5070--SE

Table of Contents

• Introduction: The fifth international workshop on epigenetic robotics
  L. Berthouze and F. Kaplan

Invited speakers

• Intelligence Dynamics: A New Approach toward Intelligence
  M. Fujita
• Dynamical Systems Approach to Infant Motor Development: Implications for Epigenetic Robotics
  E. C. Goldfield
• Cognitive modules: what have we learnt from developmental disorders?
  A. Karmiloff-Smith
• Using social robots to study abnormal social development
  B. Scassellati

Long Papers

• Event prediction and object motion estimation in the development of visual attention
  C. Balkenius and B. Johansson
• From imprinting to adaptation: building a history of affective interaction
  A. J. Blanchard and L. Canamero
• From motor babbling to hierarchical learning by imitation: a robot developmental pathway
  Y. Demiris and A. Dearden
• Developmentally guided ego-exo force discrimination for a humanoid robot
  A. Edsinger-Gonzales
• On the notion of motor primitives in humans and robots
  J. Konczak
• Emerging linguistic functions in early infancy
  F. Lacerda, E. Klintfors, L. Gustavsson, E. Marklund, and U. Sundberg
• Ongoing emergence: A core concept in epigenetic robotics
  C. G. Prince, N. A. Helder, and G. J. Hollich
• Exploiting vestibular output during learning results in naturally curved reaching trajectories
  G. Sun and B. Scassellati
• Tapping into touch
  E. Torres-Jara, L. Natale and P. Fitzpatrick
• Developmental acquisition of entrainment skills in robot swinging using van der Pol oscillators
  P. Veskos and Y. Demiris

Short Papers

• Autonomous learning and reproduction of complex sequences: a multimodal architecture for bootstrapping imitation games
  P. Andry, P. Gaussier and J. Nadel
• Scaffolding cognition with words
  R. Clowes and A. F. Morse
• Covert perceptual capability development
  Huang and Weng
• The RobotCub approach to the development of cognition
  G. Metta, D. Vernon, and G. Sandini
• Discovering motion flow by temporal-informational correlations in sensors
  L. Olsson, C. L. Nehaniv and D. Polani
• Symbol manipulation by internal simulation of perception and behaviour
  M. van Dartel and E. Postma
• Towards teaching a robot to count objects
  J. Vitay

Posters

• Out in the world: What did the robot hear and see?
  L. Aryananda
• Segmentation stability: A key component for joint attention
  J-C. Baillie and M. Nottale
• The role for context in motor development in autism
  P. Björne and C. Balkenius
• Speeding up learning with dynamic environment shaping in evolutionary robotics
  N. Bredeche and L. Hugue
• Robot gesture generation from environmental sounds using inter-modality mapping
  Y. Hattori, H. Kozima, K. Komatani, T. Ogata, and H. G. Okuno
• What is animacy in dynamical movement?
  H. Kuwamura, T. Yamamoto and T. Hashimoto
• Robot self-characterisation of experience using trajectories in sensory-motor phase space
  N. A. Mirza, C. Nehaniv, R. te Boekhorst and K. Dautenhahn
• How can robots facilitate social interaction of children with autism?
  E. Miyamoto, M. Lee, H. Fujii and M. Okada
• A platform for education in 'interaction design for adaptive robots'
  N. Oka and M. Ozaki
• A formal approach of developmental robotics and psychology
  K. Prepin, P. Gaussier, A. Revel, and J. Nadel
• Joint attention in the first year: The coordination of gaze and affect between 7 and 10 months of age
  D. Stahl and T. Striano