Workshop
Emergence and Development of Embodied Cognition
(EDEC-2001)
Beijing, August 27, 2001
The objective of this workshop is to bring together researchers from cognitive science, psychology, robotics, artificial intelligence, philosophy, and related fields to discuss the role of developmental and embodied views of cognition, and in particular, their mutual relationship. The ultimate goal of this approach is to understand the emergence of high-level cognition in organisms bases on their interactions with their environment over extended periods of time.
The workshop will consist of six invited talks, followed by a poster session with contributed papers.
Invited speakers:
|
Minoru Asada |
Emergent Robotics Area, Dept. of Adaptive Machine Systems, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, Japan |
| Gilles Fauconnier | Department of Cognitive Science, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA |
| Kazuo Hiraki | Department of Systems Science, University of Tokyo, Japan |
| Giorgio Metta | Humanoid Robotics Group, MIT - Artificial Intelligence Lab, Cambridge, MA, USA |
| Stefan Schaal | Department of Computer Science, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA |
| Max Lungarella and Rolf Pfeifer | Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, University of Zurich, Switzerland |
Proceedings:
The complete workshop-proceedings are available in pdf-format on-line, individual papers can also be downloaded by clicking on them.
Program:
| 13:30 - 13:50 | Intro | Rolf Pfeifer |
| 13:50 - 14:25 | Talk 1 | Kazuo Hiraki: Causality and Prediction: Detection of Delayed Intermodal Contingency in Infancy |
| 14:25 - 15:00 | Talk 2 | Max Lungarella: Robots as Cognitive Tools: An Information-theoretic Analysis of Sensor-(motor) Data |
| 15:00 - 15:20 | Break | |
| 15:20 - 15:55 | Talk 3 | Giorgio Metta: Development in Artificial Systems |
| 15:55 - 16:30 | Talk 4 | Stefan Schaal: Movement Primitives and Imitation Learning Based on Dynamic System Theory |
| 16:30 - 17:30 | Discussion & Poster Session | |
Posters
| C.Lenay, O.Gapenne, J.Stewart: | The constitution of spatiality in relation to the lived body: a study based on prosthetic perception |
| H.Kozima, H.Yano | In search of ontogenetic prerequisites for embodied social intelligence |
| A.Perez-Uribe, M.Courant | A robotics framework for studying the coevolution of signaling |
| C.M.Jonker, J.L.Snoep, J.Treur, H.V.Westerhoff, W.C.A.Wijngaards | Embodied intentional dynamics of bacterial behavior |
| N.Barnes | Three embodied vision-guided docking methods for mobile robots |
| M.Lungarella, R.Pfeifer | Robots as cognitive tools: An information-theoretic analysis of sensory-(motor) data |
Additional contributions
| M.Asada | Environmental Design for Cognitive Developmental Robotics |
| G.Fauconnier | Conceptual Integration |
Location:
The workshop will be held in the Guo-hong hotel in Beijing. Click here to see how to get there.
Participation in the workshop is free, but registration is required. Please send email to lunga@ifi.unizh.ch to register. Click here to see the call for participation.
For information on travel and accommodation please consult the pages of the Cognitive Science Conference.
The (now obsolete) Call for paper.
Program committee
- Rolf Pfeifer (co-chair, AI Lab, University of Zürich, Switzerland)
- Max Lungarella (AI Lab, University of Zurich, Switzerland)
- Yasuo Kuniyoshi (University of Tokyo, Japan)
- Olaf Sporns (Department of Psychology, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA)
- Giorgio Metta (Humanoid Robotics Group, MIT - Artificial Intelligence Lab, Cambridge, MA, USA)
- Giulio Sandini (LIRA-Lab, University of Genova, Italy)
- Rafael Nunez (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
Related workshop
On the 31st of July the DECO-workshop took place in Edinburgh. DECO stands for Development of Embodied Cognition. Its proceedings can be found here.
Email contact
WWW links with up-to-date information about the International Conference on Cognitive Science 2001:
Cognitive Science Conference 2001: http://www.ICCS2001.com