[Amdnl] Call for Participation: IROS2011 Workshop on "Cognitive Neuroscience Robotics"

[Yukie Nagai]

Call for Participation:

IROS2011 Workshop on "Cognitive Neuroscience Robotics"
September 25, 2011, San Francisco, California, USA
http://www.gcoe-cnr.osaka-u.ac.jp/iros2011workshop/

Abstract
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While traditional technologies have made our society convenient, their 
effects on our cognitive functions have been disregarded. In order to 
reveal their effects and to establish a new design principle for safe 
and adaptable Information and Robot Technology (IRT) systems, the 
organizers have promoted the global center of excellence (GCOE) project 
supported by Japanese government, in which world-famous research groups 
in robotics, cognitive science, and brain science, working at Osaka 
University and ATR in Japan, are highly-integrated to establish an 
interdisciplinary research area called Human-friendly Robotics Based on 
Cognitive Neuroscience (Cognitive Neuroscience Robotics). In this 
workshop, starting from the keynote talk by Prof. Hiroshi Ishiguro who 
is the leader of the GCOE, some members and international collaborators 
of the GCOE will give their talks about the most-advanced studies mainly 
on the fields of human-robot interaction (HRI), cognitive science, brain 
science, and the interdisciplinary area. Based on the talks, we will 
discuss the way to integrate these research fields for the establishment 
of a novel research area of human friendly IRT system.

Program
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08:30-08:40    Welcome
08:40-09:20    Hiroshi Ishiguro
             GCOE for Cognitive Neuroscience Robotics
09:20-10:00    Ayse P. Saygin
             Cognitive Neuroscience Meets Robotics: Perception of Human 
and Robot Movements
10:00-10:20    (Coffee break)
10:20-11:00    Peter H. Kahn, Jr.
             In Relation with Social Robots
11:00-11:25    Bram Vanderborght, Ramona Simut, Jelle Saldien, Cristina 
Pop, Alina S. Rusu, Sebastian Pintea, Dirk Lefeber and Daniel O. David
             Social Stories for Autistic Children Told by the Huggable 
Robot Probo -
11:25-11:50    Rujiao Yan, Tobias Rodemann and Britta Wrede
             Computational Audiovisual Scene Analysis for Dialog Scenarios -
11:50-12:50    (Lunch)
12:50-13:50    Poster Session
13:50-14:30    Sunil K. Agrawal
             TBA
14:30-14:55    Tingfan Wu, Juan Artigas, Whitney Mattson, Paul Ruvolo, 
Javier Movellan and Daniel Messinger
             Collecting A Developmental Dataset of Reaching Behaviors: 
First Steps
14:55-15:20    Beata J. Grzyb, Joschka Boedecker, Minoru Asada and Angel 
P. del Pobil
             Elevated activation of dopaminergic brain areas facilitates 
behavioral state transition
15:20-15:40    (Coffee break)
15:40-16:05    Tetsuya Ogata
             Mutual adaptive interaction between robots and human based 
on the dynamical systems approach
16:05-16:30    Kai Essig, Jonathan Maycock, Helge Ritter and Thomas Schack
             The Cognitive Nature of Action - A Bi-Modal Approach 
towards the Natural Grasping of Known and Unknown Objects
16:30-17:10    Minoru Asada
             The Future of Cognitive Neuroscience Robotics

Organizers
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Kenichi Narioka (Osaka University)
narioka at ist.osaka-u.ac.jp

Yukie Nagai (Osaka University)
yukie at ams.eng.osaka-u.ac.jp

Minoru Asada (Osaka University)
asada at ams.eng.osaka-u.ac.jp

Hiroshi Ishiguro (Osaka University)
ishiguro at sys.es.osaka-u.ac.jp


-- 
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/