<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;line-height:14pt;word-break:keep-all" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US">Call for Papers</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;line-height:14pt;word-break:keep-all" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US">"Learning Object Affordances: <br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;line-height:14pt;word-break:keep-all" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US">a fundamental step to allow prediction, planning and tool use?" <br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;line-height:14pt;word-break:keep-all" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US">Full-day workshop a</span></b>t IEEE/RSJ IROS 2015</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;line-height:14pt;word-break:keep-all" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US">(International Conference on Intelligent Robot and Systems)</span></b><br><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US"></span><font size="2"><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"></span></font></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;line-height:14pt;word-break:keep-all" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US"><span><span>September 28, 2015</span></span>. Hamburg, Germany.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;line-height:14pt;word-break:keep-all" align="center"><b><i><a href="http://objectaffordances.blogspot.pt/" target="_blank">http://objectaffordances.blogspot.pt/</a></i></b><br><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.humanoids2015.org" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:windowtext;text-decoration:none"></span></b></a></span><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US"></span></b></p><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><br><font size="2">We
 invite you to submit your contribution to "Learning Object Affordances:
 a fundamental step to allow prediction, planning and tool use?", a 
full-day workshop at the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on 
Intelligent Robot and Systems (IROS 2015), to be held in Hamburg, 
Germany, on September 28, 2015.<br></font></span><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><font size="2">Check the call details here: <a href="http://objectaffordances.blogspot.pt/p/call-for-contributions.html" target="_blank">http://objectaffordances.blogspot.pt/p/call-for-contributions.html</a></font><br></span><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"></span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;line-height:14pt;word-break:keep-all" align="left"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US">Important Dates</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;line-height:14pt;word-break:keep-all" align="left"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US">• Submission deadline:<b> <span><span>July 31, 2015</span></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;line-height:14pt;word-break:keep-all" align="left"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US">• Notification of acceptance:<b> <span><span>August 17, 2015</span></span> </b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;line-height:14pt;word-break:keep-all" align="left"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US">• Workshop:<b> <span><span>September 28, 2015</span></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;line-height:14pt;word-break:keep-all" align="left"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;line-height:14pt;word-break:keep-all" align="left"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US">Theme</span></b><br><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">Autonomous
 robots need motor cognition to perform complex tasks efficiently in 
real-world environments: this means not only the acquisition of specific
 motor skills, but also the ability to handle novel situations beyond 
learned schemas, to generalise what is learned to unexpected scenarios. 
Human infants learn through exploration the consequences of their 
actions over the objects they play with (i.e. the objects affordances). 
This is progressively extended to the interaction among different 
objects, eventually leading to the discovery of tool use and to the 
emergence of prediction and planning capabilities, that are exploited to
 solve complex tasks through powerful generalisation mechanisms. 
Interestingly, other animals show similar cognitive capabilities (e.g. 
primates, crows).<br>Inspired by these observations, roboticists have 
been working on computational models for learning object affordances and
 tool use, that can be employed for prediction and planning, thus 
enhancing robot autonomy.<br>The goal of this workshop is to depict the 
current state of the art concerning the development of such models in 
humanoid robots, and to sketch the main challenges and future 
directions. We foster a multi-disciplinary discussion, which aims at 
understanding how the collaboration between roboticists with different 
backgrounds (e.g. developmental robotics, artificial intelligence, 
control theory) and researchers from life sciences (e.g. psychology, 
neuroscience, linguistics) can improve both the abilities of autonomous 
robots and our knowledge of the human brain.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;line-height:14pt;word-break:keep-all" align="left"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;line-height:14pt;word-break:keep-all" align="left"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US">Topics</span></b><br><font size="2"><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">Learning of affordances in humans and primates<br>Development of motor cognition in human infants<br>Emergence of tool use in animals<br>Ecological approaches to perception and motor cognition<br>Computational models of object affordances<br>Grasp affordances<br>Learning affordances through self-exploration in humanoid robots<br>Multi-modal affordances<br>Multi-objects and relational affordances<br>Tool use in robots<br>Probabilistic planning<br>Natural and artificial visual perception<br>Dynamics and control aspects of motor cognition and affordance learning</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;line-height:14pt;word-break:keep-all" align="left"><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"></span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;line-height:14pt;word-break:keep-all" align="left"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US">Call for Contributions</span></b></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><font size="2">[More details here: <a href="http://objectaffordances.blogspot.pt/p/call-for-contributions.html" target="_blank">http://objectaffordances.blogspot.pt/p/call-for-contributions.html</a>]<br></font></span></span></font><font size="2"><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">Prospective participants are required to <b>submit an extended abstract (maximum 2 pages in length), optionally accompanied by a small video</b>. <br>Accepted contributions will be presented during the workshop as posters. <br>Submissions must be in pdf, following the IEEE conference style (two-columns), to <a href="mailto:ljamone@isr.ist.utl.pt" target="_blank">ljamone@isr.ist.utl.pt</a>, indicating [IROS 2015 Workshop] in the subject.</span></font><font size="2"><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> </font>Moreover, we are considering to
 propose a <b>Special Issue</b> to the <i>IEEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development</i>,
 in which extended versions of the submitted manuscripts (about 8-10 pages) will be 
included.</span></font></span></font><font size="2"><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><br></span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:14pt;word-break:keep-all"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:14pt;word-break:keep-all"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US">Workshop Organizers</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US"></span></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">Dr. Lorenzo Jamone<br>Dr. <span>Emre</span> Ugur<br>Prof. Angelo Cangelosi<br>Prof. José Santos-Victor<br><br></span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:14pt;word-break:keep-all"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US">Contacts</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US"></span></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">Email: <a href="mailto:ljamone@isr.tecnico.ulisboa.pt" target="_blank">ljamone@isr.tecnico.ulisboa.pt</a><br>Phone: <a href="tel:%2B351218418299" value="+351218418299" target="_blank">+351218418299</a><br><a href="http://objectaffordances.blogspot.pt/" target="_blank">http://objectaffordances.blogspot.pt/</a></span></font><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><span><font color="#888888">===================================================================<br>
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