Schedule for Imitation 2005

[Items in italics indicate main AISB events]

12th of April, Tuesday

8:00 - 9:00 Registration, Coffee (from 8:30)

9:00 - 9:10 AISB - Welcome

9:10 - 10:10 AISB Plenary talk 1: Nigel Gilbert, "Computational Sociology"

10:10 - 10:45 Coffee, and walking to session rooms in Main Building

10:45 - 12:45 Imitation Session 1

· Introduction - Yiannis Demiris, Chrystopher Nehaniv, Kerstin Dautenhahn

· Robot Imitation from Human Body Movements, C.A. Calderon and H. Hu

· Achieving corresponding effects on multiple robotic platforms: Imitating in context using different effect metrics, A. Alissandrakis, C. Nehaniv, K. Dautenhahn, J. Saunders, University of Hertfordshire, UK

· Constructing a mirror system for speech reading, L. Berthouze, AIST, Japan

12:45 - 2:00 – Lunch

2:00 - 4:00: Imitation Session 2

· Keynote Talk 1: Irene Pepperberg, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University

· Motor Resonance and MOSAIC, T. Chaminade, ATR, Japan

· Poster Highlights 1:

o Using Visual Velocity Detection to Achieve Sychronization in Imitation, A. J. Blanchard and L. Canamero, University of Hertfordshire, UK

o Chess by imitation, T. Caulfield and J. Bryson, University of Bath, UK

4:00 - 4:30 Coffee

4:30 - 6:00 Imitation Session 3

· Interpersonal somatosensory maps, V. Hafner and F. Kaplan, Sony Computer Science Laboratory, France

· Learning discretely: Behaviour and Organisation in Social Learning, J. Bryson and M. Wood, University of Bath, UK

· Poster Highlights 2:

o An internal multimodal model for imitating 3D reaching movements, M. Hersch and A. Billard, EPFL

o Learning of Gestures by Imitation in a Humanoid Robot, S. Calinon and A. Billard, EPFL

6:00 - 8:00 AISB Reception, buffet

13th of April, Wednesday

8:30 - 9:00 Coffee

9:00 - 10:00 AISB Plenary Talk 2: Jacqueline Nadel, “Looking at the many faces of human socio-cognitive development: can it help designing 'social' robots?”

10:00 - 10:30 Coffee break

10:30 - 12:30 Imitation Session 4:

• Goal level imitation with emergent repertoires, B. Jansen, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium

· Hierarchies of Coupled Inverse and Forward Models for Abstraction in Robot Action, Recognition and Imitation, M. Johnson and Y. Demiris, Imperial College London, UK

• Cognitive Development of Baltazar, M. Lopes and J. Santos-Victor, Instituto Superior Technico, Portugal.

12:30 - 1:45 Lunch

1:45 - 3:45: Imitation Session 5:

· Joint Attention in infant like robot based on imitation of human head movement, Y. Nagai, National Institute of Information and Communication Technology, Japan

· Human and Robotic Action Observation Elicit Automatic Imitation, C. Press, G. Bird, R. Glach, and C. Heyes, University College London (UCL), UK

· View-sensitive cells as a neural basis for the representation of others in a self-centered frame of reference, E. Sauser and A. Billard, EPFL, Switzerland

3:45 - 4:15: Coffee

4:15 - 5:45 Imitation Session 6

· An Examination of the static to dynamic imitation spectrum, J. Saunders, C. Nehaniv, K. Dautenhahn, University of Hertfordshire, UK

· Teaching a robot to behave like a cockroach, T. Hellstrom, Umea University, Sweden

5:45 - 7:45 Robot Demos, posters, buffet

14th of April, Thursday

8:00 - 9:00 Registration, Coffee

9:00 – 10:00 AISB Plenary talk III: Hiroshi Ishiguro, "From Interpersonal to Social Relationships with Robots - Studies on Interactive Humanoids and Androids"

10:00 – 10:30: Coffee and walking to session rooms

10:30 - 12:30 Imitation Session 7

· Keynote Talk 2: Aude Billard, EPFL

· What can the social context of mimicry tell us about imitation?, R. B. van Baaren and L. van Leeuwen, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands

12:30 – 1:40 Lunch and Posters (in parallel SSAISB AGM meeting)

1:40 – 2:40 AISB Plenary Talk IV: Alison Jolly: “Social Intelligence in Primates and Primatologists”

2:40 – 2:55 Walking to session rooms

2:55 - 4:25 Imitation Session 8:

· Interdisciplinary Collaboration Experiments - All the participants [Active participation of the audience: speakers, organizers, and audience will be divided into groups, aiming to have persons from different disciplines in each group; each group brainstorms to design an experiment that combines the approaches of its members]

4:25 – 4:45: Coffee

4:45 - 6:45 Imitation Session 9:

· 4:45-5:45 Presentations of the results of the interdisciplinarity experiments, 6 presentations (10 min each)

· 5:45-6:45 Panel and audience discussion: “Establishing an Interdisciplinary Science of Imitation”

Close of Imitation 2005

7:30 – 11:00 of Thursday Evening: AISB convention Elizabethan Banquet in the Old Palace at Hatfield House