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Autonomous Mental Development Technical Committee (AMDTC)

June 2014. Autonomous Mental Development Technical Committee (AMDTC). Chair: Matthew Schlesinger Vice-Chairs: Yukie Nagai Erol Sahin. AMDTC Members. AMDTC Main Conference Statistics. ICDL: IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (with EpiRob since 2011).

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Autonomous Mental Development Technical Committee (AMDTC)

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  1. June 2014 Autonomous Mental Development Technical Committee (AMDTC) Chair: Matthew Schlesinger Vice-Chairs: Yukie Nagai ErolSahin

  2. AMDTC Members

  3. AMDTC Main Conference Statistics ICDL: IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (with EpiRob since 2011) Notes on 2012 acceptance rate: 65% = 61 out of 91 full paper submissions (22 talks, 39 posters) Other 51 accepted as 2-page abstracts (19 submitted as 2-page only) Plans for 2015 and 2016: A formal proposal for ICDL-EpiRob 2015 was submitted to the CIS in June 2014, to be hosted at Providence, Rhode Island. For 2016, Paris has been nominated, and the onsite organizing committee is being formed.

  4. ICDL-Epirob 2014October 13th-16thGenoa, ITALY1 day workshop/tutorials2½ days main conference(Mon-Thu)

  5. ICDL-EpiRob 2014 General Chairs: Giorgio Metta (IIT, Genoa) Mark Lee (Univ. of Aberystwyth) Ian Fasel (Univ. of Arizona) Bridge Chairs: Giulio Sandini (IIT, Genoa) Masako Myowa-Yamakoshi (Univ. Kyoto) Program Chairs: Lorenzo Natale (IIT, Genoa) Hideki Kozima, not confirmed Publications Chairs: Francesco Nori (IIT, Genoa) ErolSahin (METU, Ankara) Publicity Chairs: KatrinLohan (Heriot-Watt, Edinburgh) Gordon Cheng (TUM, Munich) Local chairs: Alessandra Sciutti (IIT, Genoa) Vadim Tikhanoff (IIT, Genoa) Finance chairs: Andrea Derito (IIT, Genoa)

  6. ICDL-EpiRob 2014 The Doge's Palace (Italian: Palazzo Ducale) is a historical building in Genoa. Once the home of the Doges of Genoa, it is now a museum and a center for cultural events and arts exhibitions. It is situated in the heart of the city

  7. ICDL-Epirob 2015August 13th-16thBrown UniversityProvidence, RI, USA1 day workshops/tutorials2½ days main conference(Thu-Sun)

  8. ICDL-EpiRob 2015 General Chairs: Matthew Schlesinger (Southern Illinois University) Dima Amso (Brown University) Bridge Chairs: Jeffrey Krichmar (U.C. Irvine) Bertram Malle (Brown University) Program Chairs: CleméntMoulin-Frier(INRIA) Lisa Meeden (Swarthmore) not confirmed Publications Chairs: Anne Warlaumont (U.C. Merced) Publicity Chairs: Lola Canamero (University of Hertfordshire) Matthias Rolf (Bielefeld University) not confirmed Local chairs: Thomas Serre (Brown University) David Sobel (Brown University) Finance chair: TBA

  9. ICDL-EpiRob 2015 March 9th, 2015, paper submission deadline May 15th, 2015, author notification July 1st, 2015, final version (camera ready) due August 13th-16th, 2015, conference

  10. ICDL-EpiRob 2015 Providence (RI) is home to several museums, including the RISD Museum, part of the famed Rhode Island School of Design; the John Brown House Museum, a landmark from the 18th century; and the Governor Henry Lippitt House Museum, an American National Historic Landmark. Theaters, galleries, outdoor adventures and more make Providence a place to get up and go. Providence's signature event is WaterFire, an award-winning fire sculpture installation on the three rivers in downtown Providence.

  11. ICDL-EpiRob 2016 • Organizers in Paris have accepted the nomination and are preparing the proposal

  12. Highlights/Plans for 2014 • WCCI-IJCNN 2014 • AMDTC Special Session on “Cognition and Development” • ICDL-EpiRob2014 (Genoa) • New Book • Cangelosi A. & Schlesinger M. (2014). Developmental Robotics: From Babies to Robots. Cambridge MA: MIT Press

  13. TC Chair’s Plan in 2014 1. Reduced size of TFs: - from 77 (2013) to 47 (2014) members 2. Individual TF webpages designed/launched 2. Support TAMD journal - Special Issues, Outstanding Award 3. Continue integration of ICDL and EpiRob communities - Genoa = 4th joint meeting • - Establish a joint Governing Body 4. TC name change - Recommendations/report from ad-hoc committee

  14. Agenda 2014 TC Meeting To be conducted at the October 2014 Conference (Genoa) • TC Name change • Discuss recommendations of ad-hoc committee • Conference • Joint ICDL-EpiRob to continue with Providence 2015 • Merging of ICDL GB and EpiRob Steering • IEEE TAMD • State and update on new impact factor • Best Paper Prize • AMDTC TFs • Reassess number, size, and productivity of TFs

  15. AMDTC Task Forces

  16. Task Force Report for June 2014 (1/1) Action and Perception Chair: Jun Tani (Korea) Vice-Chair(s): Giorgio Metta (Italy) Members: Bruno Lara (Spain) Gordon Chen (German) Erhan Oztop (Turkey) Stefano Nolfi (Italy) Tetsuya Ogata (Japan) Jochen Triesch (German) Albert Ali Salah (Turkey) Activities in the first half of 2014 1. The iCub workshop at ICRA in Hong Kong in June 2014 organized by Giorgio Metta was supported by the technical committee. 2. JochenTriesch and his colleagues are organizing the 19th Advanced Course in Computational Neuroscience, which will be held in Frankfurt, Germany during August 3-30.

  17. Task Force Report for June 2014 (1/2) TF Newsletter Chair: Pierre-Yves Oudeyer (France) (chair and editor) Members: Fabien Bénureau (France) (associate editor) Activities in 2014: • Two issues of the Newsletter (Spring and Fall) • Each newsletter contains the following section: Editorial, Message from the AMD TC Chair, Dialog (and Dialog initiation for next issue), Reports of AMD related conferences/workshops, Call for papers and participation, Table of contents of IEEE TAMD articles (with abstracts) • A central piece of the newsletter is the dialog column. The editor solicits a well-known researcher to propose a dialog on a topic of interdisciplinary interest to the AMD community, and then solicits answers from key relevant researchers. • The Newsletter is sent electronically to around 1500 researchers (AMD mailing list), and available in open-access on the internet.

  18. Task Force Report for June 2014 (2/2) TF Newsletter Fall 2013 dialog: Initiation by Peter Ford Dominey: How are Grammatical Constructions Linked to EmbodiedMeaningRepresentations? Discussants: Brian McWhinney, W. Croft, A. Knott, M. Arbib and V. Barres, J. Weng http://www.cse.msu.edu/amdtc/amdnl/AMDNL-V10-N2.pdf Spring 2014 dialog: Initiation by KaterianPastra: Autonomous Acquisition of Sensorimotor Experiences: Any Role for Language? Discussants: Rick Dale, Katharina Rohlfing, KatrinLohan, Benjamin Koch, Alessandra Sciutti, Gary Lupyan, Catriona Silvey, Kerstin Fisher, Emmanuel Dupoux https://www.dropbox.com/s/trfrsn4tg54hq4r/amd_newsletter.pdf

  19. Task Force Report for June 2014 (1/2) Developmental Psychology Chair: Thomas R. Shultz Deputy Chair: Denis Mareschal • Members: • Gedeon O. Deák Brian Scassellati Matthew Schlesinger • Sylvain Sirois Linda B. Smith John P. Spencer • Michael Thomas JochenTriesch Kim Plunkett • GertWestermann • Activities in 2014: • Linda Smith and colleagues published these paper covering robotic models of child development phenomena. • Oudeyer, P., & Smith, L.B. (in press) How Evolution may work through Curiosity-driven Developmental Process. Topics in Cognitive Science. • Grzyb, B. J., Del Pobil, A. P., & Smith, L. B. (2012). How walking influences the development of absolute distance perception. In From Animals to Animats 12 (pp. 65-74). Springer Berlin Heidelberg.

  20. Task Force Report for June 2014 (2/2) Developmental Psychology Chair: Thomas R. Shultz Deputy Chair: Denis Mareschal • Members: • Gedeon O. Deák Brian Scassellati Matthew Schlesinger • Sylvain Sirois Linda B. Smith John P. Spencer • Michael Thomas JochenTriesch Kim Plunkett • GertWestermann • Activities in 2014: • Those two papers will be part of planned workshop, "Pathways of Cognitive Development" workshop at ICDL/EpiRob in Genoa. • 2. Together with Minoru Asada and Matthias Rolf, Matthew Schlesinger and JochenTriesch are organizing a pre-conference workshop entitled "Computational Models of Infant Development“ on July 2, 2014. It will be co-located with the ICIS conference in Berlin. For details see: http://www.er.ams.eng.osaka-u.ac.jp/icis2014-preconference/

  21. Task Force Report for June 2014 (1/2) • TF Education Chair: Katharina J. Rohlfing (Germany) Vice-Chair(s): Vadim Tikhanoff (Italy) Members: GustafGredebäck (Sweden) JuyangWeng (USA) Chen Yu (USA) Jun Tani (South Korea) YuliaSandamirskaya (Germany) Activities in 2014 for IEEE Education: Dialogue initiation „Trained on everything“: Discussion about interdisciplinary education Virtual courses in Developmental Robotics with experts planned for Fall 2014

  22. Task Force Report for June 2014 (2/2) • TF Education (2) Dialogue initiation TAMD Newsletter: Discussion on interdisciplinary education is initiated in the current TAMD Newsletter Virtual class room: Currently: Syllabus for virtual seminar Soliciting teachers / experts and testing software for live courses within the virtual classroom Advertizing virtual seminar at the ICDL 2014 Fall 2014: First virtual seminar in Developmental Robotics

  23. Task Force Report for June 2014 (1/3) • TF Human-Robot Interaction Chair:Tony Belpaeme (UK) Members: StevoBozinovski (USA) Kerstin Fischer (Denmark) Verenahafner (Germany) Yukie Nagai (Japan) Brian Scassellati (USA) Activities in 2014 for IEEE Education: TF member Brian Scassellati is co-chairing the Cognitive Science conference in 2014. The conference pans a joint robotics exhibition that spans both Cognitive Science and AAAI (which is co-located). The TF was intensely involved in the organisation and the directing of the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction. HRI2013 (Tokyo, Japan, 3-6 March 2013) and HRI2014 (Bielefeld, Germany, 3-6 March 2014). http://humanrobotinteraction.org

  24. Task Force Report for June 2014 (2/3) • TF Human-Robot Interaction Chair:Tony Belpaeme (UK) Members: StevoBozinovski (USA) Kerstin Fischer (Denmark) Verenahafner (Germany) Yukie Nagai (Japan) Brian Scassellati (USA) Activities in 2014 for IEEE Education: TF member Yukie Nagai organized the Workshop on "HRI: a bridge between Robotics and Neuroscience" at HRI2014. The goal of the workshop was to bridge the gap between HRI studies and cognitive modelling and developmental modelling studies. TF member VerenaHafner co-organised the German-Israeli Minerva School on Cognitive Robotics, February 24-27, 2014 in Berlin, Germany (http://minerva2014.de) and the Dagstuhl Seminar on Spatial Reference in the Semantic Web and in Robotics, March 31-April 4, 2014 at SchlossDagstuhl, Germany (http://www.dagstuhl.de/de/programm/kalender/semhp/?semnr=14142).

  25. Task Force Report for June 2014 (3/3) • TF Human-Robot Interaction Chair:Tony Belpaeme (UK) Members: StevoBozinovski (USA) Kerstin Fischer (Denmark) Verenahafner (Germany) Yukie Nagai (Japan) Brian Scassellati (USA) Activities in 2014 for IEEE Education: TF chair Belpaeme gave a lecture series on “Cognition, Social Interaction and Cognitive Robots”at the Interdisciplinar College (IK2014, Germany, http://www.interdisciplinary-college.de/). TF member Hafner presented at the Workshop on „Attention Models in Robotics: Visual Systems for Better HRI“, HRI2014, Bielefeld, Germany (March 3, 2014). ) TF member Fischer will publish a book on “Designing Speech for a Recipient” in which she analyses the mechanisms of formulating for a particular communication partner by comparing speech to children, to foreigners and to robots.

  26. Task Force Report for June 2014 (1/3) Language & Embodied Cognition Chair: Katerina Pastra (CSRI, Greece) Vice-Chair(s): Nikolaos Mavridis (New York Uni., United Arab Emirates) Members: YiannisAloimonos (U. Maryland - Cognitive Vision, USA)   Jean-Christophe Baille (Aldebaran Robotics – Language Learning, France) Anna Borghi (U. Bologna - Language and Embodied Cognition, Italy) Angelo Cangelosi (U. Plymouth – Language-Action Learning, U.K.) Daniel Casasanto (Max Planck Inst. Psycholinguistics - Language& Metaphor, Netherlands) Stephen Cowley (U. Hertfordshire – Distributed Language Perspective, U.K.)  Stefano Nolfi (CNR - Robotics and Language, Italy)  Katharina Rohlfing (U. Bielefeld - Language meaning development, Germany)  YuliaSandamirskaya(U.Bochum – Theory of Cognitive Systems, Germany)  Stephanie Tellex (MIT - Human Robot Interaction and Language, USA)  Email Address of the group: ieee_lcog_group@csri.gr

  27. Task Force Report for June 2014 (2/3) Language & Embodied Cognition • Activities in first semester 2014 for IEEE Language & Cognition: • 1. Organisation of a Symposium in AISB 2014 entitled: • “Embodied vs. Simulated Behaviour and Cognition: What could Robotics contribute to Language Sciences?” • Organisers: K. Pastra, S. Cowley, N. Mavridis • Invited Speakers: Prof. Roger Moore (Univ. Sheffield) and Prof. Paul Vogt (Univ. Tilburg) • http://www.csri.gr/index.php/en/news/128-aisb50-embosim.html • 2. Organisation of a Tutorial inLREC 2014entitled: • “When Semantic Language Resources meet Cognitive Systems” • Tutor: K. Pastra • http://www.csri.gr/index.php/en/news/129-lrec2014-semcog.html

  28. Task Force Report for June 2014 (3/3) Language & Embodied Cognition • Activities in first semester 2014 for IEEE Language & Cognition: • 3.IEEE CIS-AMD Newsletter Dialogue Initiation (published in Fall 2013 with replies in Spring 2014) : • “Autonomous Acquisition of Sensorimotor Experiences: Any role for Language?” • Initiator: K. Pastra • Replies by: R. Dale (Uni. Of California), E. Dupoux (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales), K. Fischer (Uni. Of Southern Denmark), G. Lupyan (Uni. Of Wisconsin-Madison), K. Rohlfing (Uni. Of Bielefeld) and C. Silvey (Uni. Of Edinburg) • http://www.csri.gr/index.php/en/news/130-ieee-cis-amd-dialogue.html

  29. Task Force Report for June 2014 (1/1) • TF Robotics Chair:Minoru Asada (Japan) Vice-Chair(s):Giorgio Metta (Italy) Members: Luc Berthouze (UK) Gordon Cheng (Germany) YiannisDemiris (UK) Hiroshi Ishiguro (Japan) YasuoKuniyoshi (Japan) Tetsuya Ogata (Japan) Rolf Pfeifer (Switzerland) • Activities in 2014 for Robotics: • Giorgio Metta and Giulio Sandini (Robotics TF) will organize ICDL-EpiRob 2014 in Genoa during October 13 – 16, 2014. • Hiroshi Ishiguro, Rolf Pfeifer, and YasuoKuniyoshi (Robotics TF) will organize a workshop on Cognitive Neuroscience Robotics (tentative) during ICDL-EpiRob2014.

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