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WP6-7 Dissemination & Management and Year 2 Planning

WP6-7 Dissemination & Management and Year 2 Planning. Angelo Cangelosi & ITALK team italkproject.org. Overview. WP6 Dissemination Open Source contribution Training Publications Media Website WP7 Management Management Committees Consortium meetings Focussed inter-partners meetings

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WP6-7 Dissemination & Management and Year 2 Planning

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  1. WP6-7 Dissemination & Management and Year 2 Planning Angelo Cangelosi & ITALK team italkproject.org

  2. Overview WP6 Dissemination Open Source contribution Training Publications Media Website WP7 Management Management Committees Consortium meetings Focussed inter-partners meetings Cooperation with other EU projects Timeplan and deliverables Year 2 Planning summary ITALK Year 1 ReviewDüsseldorf, 1 July 2009

  3. Overview WP6 Dissemination Open Source contribution Training Publications Media Website WP7 Management Management Committees Consortium meetings Focussed inter-partners meetings Cooperation with other EU projects Timeplan and deliverables Year 2 Planning summary ITALK Year 1 ReviewDüsseldorf, 1 July 2009

  4. WP6 – Open Source • Contributions to Open Source • Open Source iCub simulator • Further use and extension of OS iCub platform • iCub as systems benchmarking platform • Courtney P., Michel O., Cangelosi A., Tikhanoff V., Metta G., Natale L., Nori F., & Kernbach S. (in press). Cognitive systems platforms using open source. In: R. Madhavan, E. Tunstel & E. Messina (Eds). Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking of Intelligent Systems, Springer.

  5. WP6 – T6.2 Training • Training and Tutorials • iCub training course (four PLYM and BIEL staff), Genoa, from 15/1/2009 to 12/2/2009; iCub training course (four CNR and UH staff), Genoa, from 23/2/2009 to 19/3/2009 • Tutorial at RO-MAN 2009 on “Annotation and analysis of HRI data” (UNIBI) • Theme session at the 11th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference on “Usage-based Approaches to Language Acquisition: Computational Perspectives” (Berkeley 2009); includes contributions by Fischer and Zeschel and project-external speakers C. Bannard, R. Bod, N. Chang, P. Dominey, J. Feldman, E. Mok, L. Steels, J. van Kampen and S. Wintner (conference cancelled by local organizer as of 14-3-2009; amended schedule currently under negotiation) • Spoken Dialogue and Human-Robot Interaction Workshop at IEEE RO-MAN 2009, 27 Sep-2 Oct 2009, Toyama, Japan (T. Belpaeme co-organiser) • RobotCub Summer School in July 2008. ITALK students attended the annual RobotCub Summer School. Although this is not a specific ITALK event, it is nonetheless important to make all ITALK developers proficient with iCub programming

  6. WP6 – T6.3 Dissemination • Talks and Posters • International Seminars/Talks at University of Lyon II, Massachusetts institute of Technology • Invited Talks at CITEC Anniversary Workshop, NanoForum UK, British Computer Society, Manchester Workshop on iCub Robot, Coordination of Agents Workshop, FP7 Event "Cognition, Language and Other Interfaces and Robotics Information Day",, Aspects of the Constructicon at the Construction Grammar Workshop • National Seminars/Talks at University of Hertfordshire, CoR-Lab, CITEC Bielefeld • Presentations at the Conference on Language, Communication and Cognition, Conference of the German Cognitive Linguistics Conference in Leipzig • Posters at HUROBINT@MIT-2ND Workshop Boston, CogSys2008 International Conference on Cognitive System Karlsruhe, HRI 2008 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction • Industry talks: British Computer Society (SW branch)

  7. WP6 – T6.3 Publications • Publications (up to February 09) • 1 workshop proceedings (CD-ROM) • 4 journal articles • 9 papers in proceedings • 4 abstracts in proceedings • 4 chapters in books • + submitted manuscripts

  8. WP6 – T6.5 Media coverage News Agencies Press Associates WWW News BBC News Online Yahoo news, MSN news, Financial Express Web UK NEWSPAPERS Daily Telegraph, The Times, Guardian, Metro, Morning Star, Times Higher Education REGIONAL UK NEWSPAPERS Scotsman, Herald Plymouth, Western Morning News, Yorkshire Post, Nottingham Evening Post INTERNATIONAL NEWSPAPERS Metro Sweden, Kids Week magazine (NL), Times of India (IN), La Stampa (IT), Libero (IT), 24 Minuti (IT), Nouvel Observateur (F) … TV ITV Westcountry News, 5/3/2008 Enquiries: Discovery Channel, ARD Germany, CBS News USA, BBC Science RADIO INTERVIEWS BBC Radio Scotland, BBC Radio Devon, BBC Radio Lincolnshire, Atlantic Radio Cornwall INTERNATIONAL News/WWW USA, Australia, Russia, China, India, Chile, Guatemala, Vietnam, Thailand … France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Portugal. Romania, Hungary, Netherlands …

  9. WP6 – T6.7 Website ITALK channel

  10. Overview WP6 Dissemination Open Source contribution Training Publications Media Website WP7 Management Management Committees Consortium meetings Focussed inter-partners meetings Cooperation with other EU projects Timeplan and deliverables Year 2 Planning summary ITALK Year 1 ReviewDüsseldorf, 1 July 2009

  11. WP7 Management • Committees • Scientific and Management Committee • Knowledge Management Committee • Consortium meetings in year 1 • M1: Kick-Off, Plymouth, 7-9 April 2008 • M2: Roadmap, Rome, 23-25 Sept 2009 • … focussed inter-partners meetings

  12. WP7 Management • Focussed inter-partner meetings • 29 May 2008, WP4 planning meeting in Bielefeld (with BIEL and USD staff and Belpaeme and Marocco PLYM) • July 2008: BIEL and PLYM meeting in Bielefeld. • July 2008: joint human-robot interaction data elicitation in Bielefeld (USD and BIEL). • 18-19 November 2008: Cangelosi’s visit at BIEL for scientific coordination, and for planning of experiments with simulator • 1-3 September 2008: Katrin Solveig Lohan and Lars Schillingman from BIEL visited UH to test Esmeralda ASR. • 12-18 December 2008: Katrin Solveig Lohan from BIEL visited PLYM for training on iCub simulator • January-February 2008: Peniak and Stephenson (PLYM) and Stefan Krüger and Simon Schulz (BIEL) visit to IIT for iCub training • March 2009: Koay (UH) and Massera (CNR) visit to IIT for iCub training • 9-11 February 2008: Cangelosi’s visit at IIT for WP1 tasks • March 2009 visit of Davide Dellepiane and Marco Maggiali from IIT to BIEL to help setting up iCub.

  13. Cooperation with EU projects • Links  RoadMap invitation + ad-hoc collaborations • Related FP6-FP7 projects ROBOTCUB  IIT CHRIS  Dominey ROSSI  Borghi ALEAR  Steels ICEA  Ziemke JAST  de Ruiter ImClever Baldassarre • Marie Curie ITN ROBOT-DOC  Pfeifer, von Hofsten, Ziemke

  14. Cooperation with EU projects • Links Targeted tutorials, joint meetings • Related FP6-FP7 projects ROBOTCUB iCub extension CHRIS collaboration with IIT, SDU ROSSI collaboration with PLYM, Ellis ALEAR invite to Summer School ICEA Ziemke now in ROBOTDOC JAST de Ruiter now at CITEC Bielefeld ImClever iCub simulator use • Marie Curie ITN ROBOTDOC Joint ITALK/ROBOTDOC Summer School

  15. Timeplan and Deliverables

  16. D Time Plan D1.1 iCub extension and simulator D5.1 Roadmap

  17. Overview WP6 Dissemination Open Source contribution Training Publications Media Website WP7 Management Management Committees Consortium meetings Focussed inter-partners meetings Cooperation with other EU projects Timeplan and deliverables Year 2 Planning summary ITALK Year 1 ReviewDüsseldorf, 1 July 2009

  18. Progress in action learning (WP1) • Complete iCub and simulator as per-need basis (IIT, CNR, PLYM) • Simulation-to-Robot for action/language development experiments (IIT, PLYM) • Embodiment and self-organisation of action - motion verbs (PLYM) • Hierarchical learning of actions (PLYM, IIT, SDU, BIEL)

  19. Progress in concept learning (WP2) • Embodied, active categorical perception (CNR) • Interactive learning modes: active, querying, contrastive (PLYM) • Implementation of concept compositionality and hierarchy within Conceptual Space (PLYM) • Social learning in category acquisition (BIEL, CNR)

  20. Progress in social learning (WP3) • Cognitive linguistics analyses (SDU) • Empirical analysis of HRI data (BIEL, USD) • Experiments on socially acquired linguistic knowledge with iCub, kaspar2 (UH) • Implementation of experiments on negation (UH) • Further analysis of tutoring behaviour with focus on hand motion and gaze behaviour (BIEL)

  21. Progress in language learning (WP2) • Generalisation as a basis for emergence of symbolic systems (RIKEN, PLYM) • Further analyses on Acoustic Packaging and synchrony (BIEL) • Constructional grounding for robot experiments (USD) • Experiments from single word to compositional languages (PLYM, USD)

  22. Integration and Cognitive Bootstrap (WP5-all) • …following the RoadMap • Neuroscience of mirror neuron system in gaze behaviour in humans and HRI (IIT) • Language as a cognitive tool (CNR) • Different levels of integration • Intra-WP • Inter-WP (WP5) • Work standardisation

  23. ITALK Year 1 Thanks

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