Abstract From learning by observation, robotic research has moved towards investigations of learn... more Abstract From learning by observation, robotic research has moved towards investigations of learning by interaction. This research is inspired by findings from developmental studies on human children and primates pointing to the fact that learning takes place in a social ...
Abstract: While it is already known that parents modify their demonstrations towards children (Br... more Abstract: While it is already known that parents modify their demonstrations towards children (Brand et al., 2002; Brand et al., 2007) and that young infants aged 6 to 8 months prefer'(Brand & Shallcross, 2007), little is known about whether the modified behavior can ...
Proceedings of the Seventh Annual Acm Ieee International Conference on Human Robot Interaction, 2012
In this paper, we investigate the role of physical embodiment of a robot and its degrees of freed... more In this paper, we investigate the role of physical embodiment of a robot and its degrees of freedom in HRI. Both factors have been suggested to be relevant in definitions of embodiment, and so far we do not understand their effects on the way people interact with robots very well. Linguistic analyses of verbal interactions with robots differing with respect
ABSTRACT A fundamental challenge for robotics is to transfer the human natural social skills to t... more ABSTRACT A fundamental challenge for robotics is to transfer the human natural social skills to the interaction with a robot. At the same time, neuroscience and psychology are still investigating the mechanisms behind the development of human-human interaction. HRI becomes therefore an ideal contact point for these different disciplines, as the robot can join these two research streams by serving different roles. From a robotics perspective, the study of interaction is used to implement cognitive architectures and develop cognitive models, which can then be tested in real world environments. From a neuroscientific perspective, robots could represent an ideal stimulus to establish an interaction with human partners in a controlled manner and make it possible studying quantitatively the behavioral and neural underpinnings of both cognitive and physical interaction. Ideally, the integration of these two approaches could lead to a positive loop: the implementation of new cognitive architectures may raise new interesting questions for neuroscientists, and the behavioral and neuroscientific results of the human-robot interaction studies could validate or give new inputs for robotics engineers. However, the integration of two different disciplines is always difficult, as often even similar goals are masked by difference in language or methodologies across fields. The aim of this workshop will be to provide a venue for researchers of different disciplines to discuss and present the possible point of contacts, to address the issues and highlight the advantages of bridging the two disciplines in the context of the study of interaction.
Proceedings of the seventh annual ACM/IEEE international conference on Human-Robot Interaction - HRI '12, 2012
In this paper, we investigate the role of physical embodiment of a robot and its degrees of freed... more In this paper, we investigate the role of physical embodiment of a robot and its degrees of freedom in HRI. Both factors have been suggested to be relevant in definitions of embodiment, and so far we do not understand their effects on the way people interact with robots very well. Linguistic analyses of verbal interactions with robots differing with respect
This article presents results from a multidisciplinary research project on the integration and tr... more 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 humanoid robots. Within the framework of human linguistic and cognitive development, we focus on how three central types of learning interact and co-develop: individual learning about one's own embodiment and the environment, social learning (learning from others), and learning of linguistic capability. Our primary concern is how these capabilities can scaffold each other's development in a continuous feedback cycle as their interactions yield increasingly sophisticated competencies in the…
Background Research in social cognition suggests that infantsʼ attention is educated in interacti... more Background Research in social cognition suggests that infantsʼ attention is educated in interactions [1]. By synchronizing speech and gesture, caregivers recruit infantsʼ attention and assist them in binding information from different modalities [2]. Recent studies have ...
Abstract From learning by observation, robotic research has moved towards investigations of learn... more Abstract From learning by observation, robotic research has moved towards investigations of learning by interaction. This research is inspired by findings from developmental studies on human children and primates pointing to the fact that learning takes place in a social ...
Abstract: While it is already known that parents modify their demonstrations towards children (Br... more Abstract: While it is already known that parents modify their demonstrations towards children (Brand et al., 2002; Brand et al., 2007) and that young infants aged 6 to 8 months prefer'(Brand & Shallcross, 2007), little is known about whether the modified behavior can ...
Proceedings of the Seventh Annual Acm Ieee International Conference on Human Robot Interaction, 2012
In this paper, we investigate the role of physical embodiment of a robot and its degrees of freed... more In this paper, we investigate the role of physical embodiment of a robot and its degrees of freedom in HRI. Both factors have been suggested to be relevant in definitions of embodiment, and so far we do not understand their effects on the way people interact with robots very well. Linguistic analyses of verbal interactions with robots differing with respect
ABSTRACT A fundamental challenge for robotics is to transfer the human natural social skills to t... more ABSTRACT A fundamental challenge for robotics is to transfer the human natural social skills to the interaction with a robot. At the same time, neuroscience and psychology are still investigating the mechanisms behind the development of human-human interaction. HRI becomes therefore an ideal contact point for these different disciplines, as the robot can join these two research streams by serving different roles. From a robotics perspective, the study of interaction is used to implement cognitive architectures and develop cognitive models, which can then be tested in real world environments. From a neuroscientific perspective, robots could represent an ideal stimulus to establish an interaction with human partners in a controlled manner and make it possible studying quantitatively the behavioral and neural underpinnings of both cognitive and physical interaction. Ideally, the integration of these two approaches could lead to a positive loop: the implementation of new cognitive architectures may raise new interesting questions for neuroscientists, and the behavioral and neuroscientific results of the human-robot interaction studies could validate or give new inputs for robotics engineers. However, the integration of two different disciplines is always difficult, as often even similar goals are masked by difference in language or methodologies across fields. The aim of this workshop will be to provide a venue for researchers of different disciplines to discuss and present the possible point of contacts, to address the issues and highlight the advantages of bridging the two disciplines in the context of the study of interaction.
Proceedings of the seventh annual ACM/IEEE international conference on Human-Robot Interaction - HRI '12, 2012
In this paper, we investigate the role of physical embodiment of a robot and its degrees of freed... more In this paper, we investigate the role of physical embodiment of a robot and its degrees of freedom in HRI. Both factors have been suggested to be relevant in definitions of embodiment, and so far we do not understand their effects on the way people interact with robots very well. Linguistic analyses of verbal interactions with robots differing with respect
This article presents results from a multidisciplinary research project on the integration and tr... more 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 humanoid robots. Within the framework of human linguistic and cognitive development, we focus on how three central types of learning interact and co-develop: individual learning about one's own embodiment and the environment, social learning (learning from others), and learning of linguistic capability. Our primary concern is how these capabilities can scaffold each other's development in a continuous feedback cycle as their interactions yield increasingly sophisticated competencies in the…
Background Research in social cognition suggests that infantsʼ attention is educated in interacti... more Background Research in social cognition suggests that infantsʼ attention is educated in interactions [1]. By synchronizing speech and gesture, caregivers recruit infantsʼ attention and assist them in binding information from different modalities [2]. Recent studies have ...
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