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The ITALK project : A developmental robotics approach to the study of individual, social, and linguistic learning
(2014-07-24)
This article presents results from a multidisciplinary research project on the integration and transfer of language knowledge into robots as an empirical paradigm for the study of language development in both humans and ...
Temporal emphasis for goal extraction in task demonstration to a humanoid robot by naive users
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2013)
Goal extraction in learning by demonstration is a complex problem. A novel approach, inspired by developmental psychology and focused on use in experiments with naive users, is presented in this paper. Participants were ...
Interaction and Experience in Enactive Intelligence and Humanoid Robotics
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2013)
We overview how sensorimotor experience can be operationalized for interaction scenarios in which humanoid robots acquire skills and linguistic behaviours via enacting a “form-of-life”’ in interaction games (following ...
Mutual gaze, personality, and familiarity : Dual eye-tracking during conversation
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2012-09)
Mutual gaze is an important aspect of face-to-face communication that arises from the interaction of the gaze behavior of two individuals. In this dual eye-tracking study, gaze data was collected from human conversational ...
Integration of Action and Language Knowledge: A Roadmap for Developmental Robotics
(2010)
This position paper proposes that the study of embodied cognitive agents, such as humanoid robots, can advance our understanding of the cognitive development of complex sensorimotor, linguistic, and social learning skills. ...
As time goes by: representing and reasoning about timing in human-robot interaction studies
(AAAI, 2010)
We summarise the experimental design issues related to timing in several human-robot interaction scenarios investigating turn-taking or synchronization between child-sized humanoid robots and human participants. Our aim1 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...