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Drumming with a humanoid robot : lessons learnt from designing and analysing human-robot interaction studies
(AAAI, 2009)
We summarize methodological and experimental design issues related to three human-robot interaction studies investigating a drumming experience with Kaspar, a humanoid child-sized robot, and (in total 116) human participants. ...
An empirical framework for human-robot proxemics
(2009)
An empirical framework for Human-Robot (HR) proxemics is proposed which shows how the measurement and control of interpersonal distances between a human and a robot can be potentially used by the robot to interpret, predict ...
KASPAR - a minimally expressive humanoid robot for human-robot interaction research
(2009)
This paper provides a comprehensive introduction to the design of the minimally expressive robot KASPAR, which is particularly suitable for human-robot interaction studies. A low-cost design with off-the-shelf components ...
Dude, Where is My Sex Gene? --- Persistence of Sex over Evolutionary Time in Cellular Automata
(2009)
We created a simple evolutionary system, F-sexyloop, on a deterministic twelve-state five-neighbour cellular automaton (CA) where self-reproducing loops have the capability of sex. This work was based on the sexyloop which ...
A Constructivist Approach to Robot Language Learning via Simulated Babbling and Holophrase Extraction
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2009)
It is thought that meaning may be grounded in early childhood language learning via the physical and social interaction of the infant with those around him or her, and that the capacity to use words, phrases and their ...
Looking for evidence of differentiation and cooperation : natural measures for the study of evolution of multicellularity
(2009)
The understanding of the evolutionary transitions is a major area of research in artificial life and in biology. We follow an artificial life approach to investigate these phenomena, using a system inspired by Anabaena ...
Do Motifs Reflect Evolved Function? – No Convergent Evolution of Genetic Regulatory Network Subgraph Topologies
(2008-10)
Methods that analyse the topological structure of networks have recently become quite popular. Whether motifs (subgraph patterns that occur more often than in randomized networks) have specific functions as elementary ...
Evolution and morphogenesis of differentiated multicellular organisms: autonomously generated diffusion gradients for positional information
(MIT Press, 2008)
Development is the powerful process involving a genome in the transformation from one egg cell to a multicellular organism with many cell types. The dividing cells manage to organize and assign themselves special, ...
Algebraic properties of automata associated to Petri nets and applications to computation in biological systems
(2008)
Biochemical and genetic regulatory networks are often modeled by Petri nets. We study the algebraic structure of the computations carried out by Petri nets from the viewpoint of algebraic automata theory. Petri nets comprise ...