Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Epigenetic Robotics

September 20-22, 2006
Paris, France

Kaplan, F. Oudeyer, P.-Y. Revel, A. Gaussier, P. Nadel, J. Berthouze, L., Kozima, H., Prince, C. G., and Balkenius, C. (2006). Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Epigenetic Robotics: Modeling Cognitive Development in Robotic Systems. Lund University Cognitive Studies, 128. Lund: LUCS.

ISSN 1101-8453
ISBN 91-974741-6-9
ISRN LUHFDA/HFKO--5070--SE

Table of Contents

• F. Kaplan and P-Y. Oudeyer
  Trends in Epigenetic Robotics: Atlas 2006

Invited Talks

• K. Adolph
  Learning in the Development of Action
• A. Barto
  Intrinsic Motivation, Cumulative Learning, and Computational Reinforcement Learning
• G. Schoener
  Developing embodied cognition: Dynamic Field Theory and its application to experiment and robotics

Papers

• A. J. Blanchard L. Canamero
  Developing Affect-Modulated Behaviors: Stability, Exploration, Exploitation or Imitation?
• A. Dankers, N. Barnes, and A. Zelinsky
  Primate Structures in Synthetic Dynamic Active Visual Saliency
• A. Edsinger, and C. C. Kemp
  What can I control? A framework for robot self-discovery
• S. Franklin, and U. Ramamurthy
  Motivations, Values and Emotions: Three Sides of the same CoinY
• K. Gold, and B. Scassellati
  Deictic Pronoun Learning and Mirror Self-Identification
• M. H. Lee, Q. Meng, and F. Chao
  A Content-Neutral Approach for Sensory-Motor Learning in Developmental Robotics
• I. Mikhailova, W. von Seelen, and C. Goerick
  Usage of General Developmental Principles for Adaptation of Reactive Behavior
• N. A. Mirza, C. Nehaniv, René te Boekhorst, and Kerstin Dautenhahn
  Peekaboo: Effect of Experience Length on the Interaction History Driven Ontogeny of a Robot
• K. Nadel, M. Simon, P. Canet, R. Soussignan, P. Blancard, L. Canamero, and P. Gaussier
  Human responses to an expressive robot
• L. Natale, and E. Torres-Jara
  A sensitive approach to grasping
• T. Ogata, Y. Hattori, H. Kozima, K. Komatani, and H.i G. Okuno
  Generation of Robot Motions from Environmental Sounds Using Inter-modality Mapping by RNNPB
• V. Papudesi, and M. Huber
  Learning Behaviorally Grounded State Representations for Reinforcement Learning Agents
• G. Pezzulo, and G. Calvi
  Toward a Perceptual Symbol System
• G. Pioggia, M. Ferro, M.L. Sica, G. Dalle Mura, S. Casalini, D. De Rossi, R. Igliozzi, and F. Muratori
  Imitation and Learning of the Emotional Behaviour: Towards an Android-based Treatment for People with Autism
• A. Pitti, M. Lungarella, and Y. Kuniyoshi
  Synchronization: Adaptive Mechanism Linking Internal and External Dynamics
• M. Ponticorvo, and O. Miglino
  Developmental Pathways in the Assimilation of Non-geometric Information for Orientation in Children: a Neurorobotic Model
• K. Prepin, M. Simon, A-S. Mahé, A. Revel, and J. Nadel
  Modelling and testing the effects of a maternal mismatch of face and voice on 6-month-olds' interactions
• C. Weber and J. Triesch
  A possible representation of reward in the learning of saccades

Posters

• P. Andry and A. Revel
  Modeling Synchrony for Perception-Action systems coupling
• L. Aryananda
  Attending to Learn and Learning to Attend
• C. Balkenius, and B. Johansson
  A Developmental Approach to Dynamic Scene Understanding
• A. Cleveland, and T. Striano
  Object Processing in 4- and 9-Month Infants: Functional Outcomes of Social Interaction
• A. Duquette, H. Mercier, F. Michaud
  Investigating the Use of a Mobile Robotic Toy as an Imitation Agent for Children with Autism
• A. Eppendahl, and M. Kruusmaa
  Obstacle Avoidance as a Consequence of Suppressing Irreversible Actions
• C. Giovannengeli, and Gaussier, P.
  Learning to navigate, progress and self-evaluation
• I. D. Goga and A. Billard
  Attention mechanisms for the imitation of goal-directed action in developmental robots
• V. V. Hafner, and Y. Nagai
  Imitation Behaviour Evaluation in Human Robot Interaction
• H. Kozima, C. Nakagawa, and Y. Yasuda
  Wowing together: What facilitates social interactions in children with autistic spectrum disorders
• G. Morimoto T. Ikegami
  Development of Haptic Perception by Homogeneous Active Elements
• L. A. Munoz and M. Vincze
  A Cognitive Model of Gaze Following and Object Permanence
• M. Ogino, A. Watanabe, and M. Asada
  Mapping from Facial Expression to Internal State based on Intuitive Parenting
• L. Orseau
  Think Aloud Imitation Learning
• D. Poulin-Dubois
  Infants' attribution of goals and referential intentions to a robot: Cue-based or knowledge-based?
• Tadahiro Taniguchi, and Tetsuo Sawaragi
  Incremental Aquisition of Compositional Schemata based on Behavioral Learning
• P. Zukow-Goldring
  Assisted Imitation: Beginning to Be an Intelligent Agent