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Call for Participation: Bielefeld-Osaka Workshop on Cognition and Robotics</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Dear
colleagues,</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US">I'd like to
invite you to attend the Bielefeld-Osaka Workshop on </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Cognition
and Robotics, which will be held in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Bielefeld</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> on </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US">September
2011 (directly after the ICDL-EpiRob conference in </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><st1:place w:st="on"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:
EN-US">Frankfurt</span></st1:place><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:
EN-US">). <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Bielefeld</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> and <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Osaka</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>
will jointly </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US">organize
the workshop to bring together multidisciplinary researchers </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US">investigating
cognitive function in humans and robots. The program </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US">includes
exciting 11 talks and a lab tour. I'm looking forward to seeing </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US">many of you
there.</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US">[Program]</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US">09:30-09:40<span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>Opening <span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US">09:40-10:10<span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>Robotics as an Interdisciplinary Challenge</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US"><span style="mso-tab-count:3"> </span>Helge Ritter,
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Bielefeld</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> <span style="mso-tab-count:
1"> </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US">10:10-10:30<span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>Information Processing in Recurrent Neural
Networks at the </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Edge of
Chaos</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US"><span style="mso-tab-count:3"> </span>Joschka
Boedecker, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Osaka</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> <span style="mso-tab-count:
1"> </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US">10:30-10:50<span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>Sense of control indicates the zone of
proximal development </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US">for
self-initiated or scaffolded actions</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US"><span style="mso-tab-count:3"> </span>Beata Joanna
Grzyb, Jaume I University/Osaka University<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US">10:50-11:10<span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>Break <span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US">11:10-11:30<span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>From Biological Memories to Signatures as a
Concept for </span></div>
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and Learning</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US"><span style="mso-tab-count:3"> </span>Marc Kammer, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Bielefeld</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType></st1:place></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US">11:30-11:50<span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>Co-developmental mechanism for vocal
imitation and lexicon </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US">acquisition
based on subjective consistency</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US"><span style="mso-tab-count:3"> </span>Yuki Sasamoto,
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Osaka</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> <span style="mso-tab-count:
1"> </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US">11:50-12:10<span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>Multi-Modal Anchoring in<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Human Infants, Adults and </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Artificial
Systems</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US"><span style="mso-tab-count:3"> </span>Silke Fischer
& Denis Schulze, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Bielefeld</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> <span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US">12:10-13:10
<span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>Lunch <span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US">13:10-13:30
<span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>Facial Communicative Signals: <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Valence</st1:place></st1:City> Recognition<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>in </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Task-Oriented<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Human-Robot Interaction</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US"><span style="mso-tab-count:3"> </span>Christian
Lang, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Bielefeld</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> <span style="mso-tab-count:
1"> </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US">13:30-13:50
<span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>Inter-facial relations:<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Investigating the role of eye </span></div>
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social interaction dynamics</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US"><span style="mso-tab-count:3"> </span>Nick
Wilkinson, Instituto Italiano di Tecnologia</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US">13:50-14:10
<span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>Break <span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>Mutual gaze as a mechanism to created a
contingent interaction</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US"><span style="mso-tab-count:3"> </span>Katrin Lohan,
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Bielefeld</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType></st1:place></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US">14:30-14:50
<span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>Human infants’ responses to
infant-directed action: the </span></div>
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emotional information</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US"><span style="mso-tab-count:3"> </span>Hiroshi
Fukuyama, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Kyoto</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> <span style="mso-tab-count:
1"> </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US">14:50-15:20
<span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>Anthropomorphic inferences about
robots: Why and when do we </span></div>
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as humans?</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US"><span style="mso-tab-count:3"> </span>Dieta
Kuchenbrandt, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Bielefeld</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType></st1:place></span></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>Break <span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US">15:40-18:00<span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>Lab tour</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US">19:00<span style="mso-tab-count:2"> </span>Dinner <span style="mso-tab-count:
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