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Monday |
10 December 2007 |
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8:30 |
Reception/registration |
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9:30 |
Welcome
Luís
Seabra Lopes
Universidade de Aveiro |
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9:40 |
Opening discussion
Stephen Cowley
University of Hertfordshire & University of
KwaZulu-Natal |
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10:00 |
Invited Talk: Circuit sharing for action-grounded meaning
Michael Anderson
University of Maryland |
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11:00 |
Coffee
break |
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11:20 |
How
words become cognitive
Rob
Clowes, Carlos Herrera, Martin McGinnity, Tom Ziemke
University of Ulster + University of Skövde |
|
11:50 |
Language and the person problem
Stephen J. Cowley
University of Hertfordshire & University of
KwaZulu-Natal |
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12:20 |
Lunch |
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14:00 |
Invited Talk: Towards a Mechanistic Model of Referential Semantics
Deb Roy
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
|
15:00 |
Towards Generating Referring Expressions in a Mobile Robot Scenario
Hendrik Zender and Geert-Jan M. Kruijff
Saarbrücken University |
|
15:30 |
A
constraint-based model of grounded compositional semantics
Wouter J. M.Van den Broeck
Sony Computer Science Laboratory |
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16:00 |
Coffee
break |
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16:20 |
Towards Speech-based Human-Robot Interaction
Roger K. Moore
University of Sheffield |
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16:50 |
Speech Perception as Non-symbolic Pattern Recognition
Simon F. Worgan and Robert I. Damper
University of Southampton |
|
17:20 |
Early
Speech Development of a Humanoid Robot using Babbling and Lip Tracking
Jonas Hörnstein, Cláudia Soares, José Santos-Victor
and Alexandre Bernardino
Instituto Superior Técnico |
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17:50 |
End of
day |
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Tuesday |
11 December 2007 |
|
9:00 |
Invited Talk: Fluid Language Games and the Emergence of Grammar
Luc
Steels
Vrije Universiteit Brussel |
|
10:00 |
Allow
me to pick your brain: how language and thought can be shared between
robots
Tony
Belpaeme
University of Plymouth |
|
10:30 |
Coffee
break |
|
10:50 |
Crossmodal Content Binding in Information-Processing Architectures
Henrik Jacobsson, Nick Hawes, Geert-Jan Kruijff,
Jeremy Wyatt
DFKI + University of Birmingham |
|
11:20 |
Incremental, multi-level processing for comprehending situated dialogue
in human-robot interaction
Geert-Jan M. Kruijff, Pierre Lison, Trevor
Benjamin, Henrik Jacobsson and Nick Hawes
Saarbrücken University + Saarland University +
University of Birmingham |
|
11:50 |
Producing Believable Robot Gaze When Comprehending Visually Situated
Dialogue
Geert-Jan M. Kruijff1 and Maria Staudte
Saarland University |
|
12:20 |
Lunch |
|
14:00 |
Invited Talk: Grammar as System of Second-order Cultural Constraints on
Action and Perception
Paul
Thibault
Agder University College, Norway |
|
14:45 |
Meaning in the timing? The emergence of complex pointing patterns
Katharina J. Rohlfing and Stefan Kopp
Bielefeld University |
|
15:15 |
Robots
that inhabit the human worldHerrera, Carlos, Rob Clowes, Martin
McGinnity, Tom Ziemke |
|
15:45 |
Coffee
break |
|
16:05 |
Poster session |
|
16:30 |
Learning User Models with Limited Reinforcement: An Adaptive Human-Robot
Interaction System
Finale Doshi and Nicholas Roy
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
|
17:00 |
Constructing an Interactive Behavioral On-line Operation System for
Humanoid Robots Using Natural Language Instructions
Neo
Ee Sian, Takeshi Sakaguchi, Kazuhito Yokoi
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science
and Technology, Japan |
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17:30 |
End of
day |
|
20:00 |
Symposium dinner |
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Wednesday |
12 December 2007 |
|
9:00 |
Invited Talk: Towards Learning by Interacting
Gerhard Sagerer
Bielefeld University |
|
10:00 |
Scaling up category learning for language acquisition in human-robot
interaction
Luís
Seabra Lopes and Aneesh Chauhan
Universidade de Aveiro |
|
10:30 |
Interactive Learning and Cross-Modal Binding - A Combined Approach
Henrik Jacobsson, Nick Hawes, Danijel Skocaj,
Geert-Jan M. Kruijff
DFKI + University of Birmingham + University of
Ljubljana |
|
11:00 |
Coffee
break |
|
11:20 |
Closing discussion
Tony
Belpaeme
University of Plymouth |
|
12:20 |
End of symposium |