[Amdnl] Call for Participation: Bielefeld-Osaka Workshop on Cognition and Robotics

[Yukie Nagai]

Dear colleagues,

I'd like to invite you to attend the Bielefeld-Osaka Workshop on 
Cognition and Robotics, which will be held in Bielefeld University on 
August 29th, 2011 (directly after the ICDL-EpiRob conference in 
Frankfurt). Bielefeld University and Osaka University will jointly 
organize the workshop to bring together multidisciplinary researchers 
investigating cognitive function in humans and robots. The program 
includes exciting 11 talks and a lab tour. I'm looking forward to seeing 
many of you there.

Note: Please send an email to Yukie Nagai (yukie at ams.eng.osaka-u.ac.jp) 
if you plan to attend the workshop. NO registration fee is required.

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Bielefeld-Osaka Workshop on Cognition and Robotics
August 29th, 2011
CITEC, Bielefeld University, Germany
https://www.cit-ec.de/OBIW2011
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[Program]
09:30-09:40	Opening 	
09:40-10:10	Robotics as an Interdisciplinary Challenge
			Helge Ritter, Bielefeld University 	
10:10-10:30	Information Processing in Recurrent Neural Networks at the 
Edge of Chaos
			Joschka Boedecker, Osaka University 	
10:30-10:50	Sense of control indicates the zone of proximal development 
for self-initiated or scaffolded actions
			Beata Joanna Grzyb, Jaume I University/Osaka University  	
10:50-11:10	Break 	
11:10-11:30	From Biological Memories to Signatures as a Concept for 
Reasoning and Learning
			Marc Kammer, Bielefeld University
11:30-11:50	Co-developmental mechanism for vocal imitation and lexicon 
acquisition based on subjective consistency
			Yuki Sasamoto, Osaka University 	
11:50-12:10	Multi-Modal Anchoring in  Human Infants, Adults and 
Artificial Systems
			Silke Fischer & Denis Schulze, Bielefeld University 	
12:10-13:10 	Lunch 	
13:10-13:30 	Facial Communicative Signals: Valence Recognition  in 
Task-Oriented  Human-Robot Interaction
			Christian Lang, Bielefeld University 	
13:30-13:50 	Inter-facial relations:  Investigating the role of eye 
contact in social interaction dynamics
			Nick Wilkinson, Instituto Italiano di Tecnologia
13:50-14:10 	Break 	
14:10-14:30 	Mutual gaze as a mechanism to created a contingent interaction
			Katrin Lohan, Bielefeld University
14:30-14:50 	Human infants’ responses to infant-directed action: the 
effect of emotional information
			Hiroshi Fukuyama, Kyoto University 	
14:50-15:20 	Anthropomorphic inferences about robots: Why and when do we 
see robots as humans?
			Dieta Kuchenbrandt, Bielefeld University
15:20-15:40 	Break 	
15:40-18:00	Lab tour
19:00		Dinner 	

[Registration]
- Please send an email to Yukie Nagai (yukie at ams.eng.osaka-u.ac.jp) if 
you plan to attend the workshop.
- NO registration fee is required.

[Organizing Committee]
- Marc Kammer, Bielefeld University
- Katrin S. Lohan, Bielefeld University
- Yukie Nagai, Osaka University


Best wishes,
Yukie

-- 
Yukie Nagai, Ph.D.
Specially Appointed Associate Professor, Osaka University
Visiting Researcher, Bielefeld University
yukie at ams.eng.osaka-u.ac.jp
http://cnr.ams.eng.osaka-u.ac.jp/~yukie/