RobotDoc Kick-Off Meeting Zurich, 28th September 2009

UBI in RobotDoc

Overview

  Bielefeld University   CITec   CoR-Lab

  The Bielefeld RobotDoc Team

  Our RobotDoc Projects   Dialogical Rules   Bottum-up and Top-down attention

Bielefeld University

  Excellence Cluster „Cognitive Interaction Technology“ (CITec)

  Highly interdisciplinary research between informatics, linguistics, psychology, sport science, biology

  Provides central lab facilities to maintain platforms for common research projects

  Graduate School

Bielefeld University

  Research Institute of Cognition and Robotics (CoR-Lab)

  Focus on Humanoid Robots   Graduate School (funded by

Honda Research Europe, Offenbach)

Gerhard Sagerer: Applied Informatics

  Pattern Recognition

  Social Robotics

  Memory-based Architecture

Britta Wrede: Hybrid Society

  Developmental Robotics   Learning of Actions (EU-

Project: ITALK)   Speech Recognition

  Human-Robot Interaction   Dialog Modeling (EU-Project:

HUMAVIPS)   Speech Recognition   Emotion Recognition and

Modeling

Katharina Rohlfing: Emergentist Semantics

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Endowing machines with capabilities of being…   conversational, collaborative   convergent, companionable

Current projects on models for…   Speech & gesture generation

  Cognitive building blocks of syntax

  Imitation learning and perception-action links of social behavior

  Coordination mechanisms in dialogue

  Familiarity & congruence

Stefan Kopp: Sociable Agents

Bielefeld in RobotDoc

You & I node: Social Learning and Interaction

  collaborating: THINK&TALK (Plymouth) & WANT&FEEL (Skövde)

  „social learning and interaction in cognitive and social development for robot-robot and human-robot interaction systems“

Our RobotDoc Projects I

  Development of dialogical rules

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Our RobotDoc Projects I

Development of dialogical rules

  Starting Point   Increased contingency (eye gaze patterns) in parent-infant

tutoring situations   Almost no contingency in HRI with bottom-up, saliency-based

behaving robot

  Goal   Model of turn-taking development   Taking into account multiple modalities (speech, facial

expressions, gestures)   Transition from binary to continuous „signal“

Our RobotDoc Project II

Our RobotDoc Projects II

History of social interaction: Emergence of top-down strategies from bottom-up social attentional processes

  Starting Point   Detection of (visual) saliency   Most saliency in parent-infant interactions on tutor‘s face,

hands and objects   Parents actively use saliency to guide attention!

  Goal   Develop top-down preference for human stimuli such as   Face and hand tracking, or even whole body tracking   Through the use of active memory architecture

Recruiting Progress: 2 open positions

  About 30 applications so far, still coming in

  Dialogical Rules:   Computational linguist found!

  Attentional Processes:   Still looking!