Email.coordinator
Address.coordinator
Angelo Cangelosi
University of Plymouth
A316 Portland Square
PL 4 8AA Plymouth
United Kingdom
Phone.coordinator
+44 1752 586217
Roadmap meeting rome
ITALK Roadmap meeting, 22-24 September 2008, CNR, Rome
Universitā degli Studi Roma TRE
Piazza della Repubblica, 10
00185 Rome, Italy
Programme and Location (download programme as pdf)
MONDAY 22 SEPTEMBER 2008
- 13:00 - 13: 30 Welcome
- 13:30 - 14: 15 A. Cangelosi (Plymouth University, UK) Integration of Action and Language Knowledge: Key Challenges for Developmental Robotics Research
- 14:15 - 15:00 C. Nehaniv (Hertfordshire University, UK) Robot Learning of Holophrases, Words and ProtoGrammar from Simulated Babbling and Physical Interaction
- 15:00 - 15: 45 S. Nolfi (Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies CNR, IT) Co-development of behavioural and cognitive skills
- 15:45 - 16.15 Coffee break
- 16:15 - 17: 00 L. Fadiga (Italian Institute of Technology, IT) From hand actions to speech: evidence and speculations
- 17:00 - 17: 45 G. Sagerer (Bielefeld University, DE) Bielefeld Vision for Roadmap
- 17:45 - 18: 30 K. Fischer (Southern Denmark University, DK) ITALK: The Challenges of Grammar Learning
- 18:30 - 19: 00 ITALK Meeting
TUESDAY 23 SEPTEMBER 2008
- 09:00 - 09: 45 A. Glenberg (Wisconsin University, USA) Who needs categories? Concepts from episodic representations
- 09:45 - 10: 30 I. Pepperberg (Harvard University, USA) Grey parrot (psittacus erithacus) vocal learning: creation of new labels from existing vocalizations and issues of imitation
- 10:30 - 11: 15 J. Tani (RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Japan) Emergence of Functional Hierarchy in a Multiple Timescales Recurrent Neural Network Model: A Humanoid Robot Experiment
- 11:15 - 11: 45 Coffee break
- 11:45 - 12: 30 R. Kubat (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) Connecting Language to Robot Behaviour: An Architecture of Object Schemas
- 12:30 - 13: 15 R. Grush (California University, S. Diego, USA) Modeling time and space
- 13:15 - 14: 30 Lunch
- 14:30 - 15: 15 G. Metta (Italian Institute of Technology, IT) iCub: the open humanoid robot designed for learning and developing complex cognitive tasks
- 15:15 - 16: 00 M. Bowerman (Max Planck Institute, NL) Constructing event categories in first language acquisition: A cross-linguistic perspective
- 16:00 - 16: 45 K. Plunkett (Oxford University, UK) Learning to Associate Object Categories and Label Categories: A Self-Organising Mode
- 16:45 - 17: 15 Coffee break
- 17:15 - 18: 00 L. Steels (SONY Computer Science Laboratory Paris, FR) Cognition and social dynamics play a major role in the formation of grammar
- 18:00 - 18: 45 J. de Ruiter (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, NL) Neurocognitive Foundations of Joint Action
- 18:45 - 19: 15 S. Harnad (University of Montreal Quebec, CA) Symbol Grounding, Turing Testing and Robot Talking
WEDNESDAY 24 SEPTEMBER 2008
- 09:00 - 09: 45 A. Borghi (Bologna University, IT) Embodied models and language grounding
- 09:45 - 10: 30 P. F. Dominey (Robot Cognition Laboratory, Lumičre Lyon 2University, FR) The Basis of Shared Intentions in Human and Robot Cognition
- 10:30 - 11: 15 T. Ziemke (Skövde University, SE) Embodied Cognition, Emotion & Social Interaction
- 11:15 - 11: 45 Coffee break
- 11:45 - 13: 00 RoadMap Panel
- 13:15 - 14: 30 Lunch
- 14:30 - 15: 30 EU Project Coordinators Meeting
- 15:30 - 16: 30 ITALK Consortium Meeting
- 16:30 - 17: 00 Coffee break
- 17:00 - 18.00 Scientific and Management Committee Meeting
- 18.00 - 18.30 Knowledge Management Committee Meeting
- 18:30 End of meeting
