Program
The full-day workshop will be organized along two main
perspectives:
1) The Robotic perspective: cognitive
architectures for interaction and;
2) The Human perspective:
investigating the basis of social cognition.
Both perspectives
address the question of how humans acquire social cognitive
abilities. The first perspective uses robots as a model to implement
developmental mechanisms aiming, among other cognitive skills, to
learn to communicate naturally with human caregivers. From the
second perspective, the fundamental elements of cognition needed
for the development of fluid human-human and human-robot
interaction are investigated. In this context robots might be used as
displays of behaviors to human subjects to quantify, for example,
the influence of social signals such as gaze and gestures on the
perception of the robotic device as a cognitive, social agent. The
interaction of these approaches facilitates the understanding of
human social cognition and the development of a similar cognitive
model in robots.
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