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A Survey of Socially Interactive Robots
, 2002
"... This paper reviews "socially interactive robots": robots for which social human-robot interaction is important. We begin by discussing the context for socially interactive robots, emphasizing the relationship to other research fields and the di#erent forms of "social robots". We then present a taxon ..."
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This paper reviews "socially interactive robots": robots for which social human-robot interaction is important. We begin by discussing the context for socially interactive robots, emphasizing the relationship to other research fields and the di#erent forms of "social robots". We then present a taxonomy of design methods and system components used to build socially interactive robots. Finally, we describe the impact of these these robots on humans and discuss open issues. An expanded version of this paper, which contains a survey and taxonomy of current applications, is available as a technical report[61].
AIBO's first words. The social learning of language and meaning
, 2001
"... This paper explores the hypothesis that language communication in its very first stage is bootstrapped in a social learning process under the strong influence of culture. A concrete framework for social learning has been developed based on the notion of a language game. Autonomous robots have been p ..."
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This paper explores the hypothesis that language communication in its very first stage is bootstrapped in a social learning process under the strong influence of culture. A concrete framework for social learning has been developed based on the notion of a language game. Autonomous robots have been programmed to behave according to this framework. We show experiments that demonstrate why there has to be a causal role of language on category acquisition; partly by showing that it leads effectively to the bootstrapping of communication and partly by showing that other forms of learning do not generate categories usable in communication or make information assumptions which cannot be satisfied.
Coordinating Perceptually Grounded Categories through Language. A Case Study For Colour
"... The paper proposes a number of models to examine through what mech-anisms a population of autonomous agents could arrive at a repertoire of perceptually grounded categories that is sufficiently shared to allow successful communication. The models are inspired by the main approaches to human categori ..."
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Cited by 61 (14 self)
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The paper proposes a number of models to examine through what mech-anisms a population of autonomous agents could arrive at a repertoire of perceptually grounded categories that is sufficiently shared to allow successful communication. The models are inspired by the main approaches to human categorisation being discussed in the literature: nativism, empiricism, and culturalism. Colour is taken as a case study. Although the paper takes no stance on which position is to be accepted as final truth with respect to hu-man categorisation and naming, it points to theoretical constraints that make each position more or less likely and contains clear suggestions on what the best engineering solution would be. Specifically, it argues that the collective choice of a shared repertoire must integrate multiple constraints, including constraints coming from communication.
The Emergence and Evolution of Linguistic Structure: From Lexical to Grammatical Communication Systems
- Connection Science
, 2005
"... The paper discusses efforts to understand the self-organisation and evolution of language from a cognitive modeling point of view. It focuses in particular on efforts that use connectionist components to synthesise some of the major stages in the emergence of language and possible transitions betwee ..."
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Cited by 28 (6 self)
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The paper discusses efforts to understand the self-organisation and evolution of language from a cognitive modeling point of view. It focuses in particular on efforts that use connectionist components to synthesise some of the major stages in the emergence of language and possible transitions between stages. The paper does not introduce new technical results but discusses a number of dimensions for mapping out the research landscape. 1 1
2006) Perspective Alignment in Spatial Language
- Spatial Language and Dialogue
, 2007
"... It is well known that perspective alignment plays a major role in the planning and interpretation of spatial language. In order to understand the role of perspective alignment and the cognitive processes involved, we have made precise complete cognitive models of situated embodied agents that self-o ..."
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It is well known that perspective alignment plays a major role in the planning and interpretation of spatial language. In order to understand the role of perspective alignment and the cognitive processes involved, we have made precise complete cognitive models of situated embodied agents that self-organise a communication system for dialoging about the position and movement of real world objects in their immediate surroundings. We show in a series of robotic experiments which cognitive mechanisms are necessary and sufficient to achieve successful spatial language and why and how perspective alignment can take place, either implicitly or based on explicit marking. 1
Intelligence with Representation
- Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A
, 2003
"... Behavior-based robotics has always been inspired by earlier cybernetics work such as that of Grey Walter. It emphasises that intelligence can be achieved without the kinds of representations common in symbolic AI systems. The paper argues that such representations might indeed not be needed for many ..."
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Behavior-based robotics has always been inspired by earlier cybernetics work such as that of Grey Walter. It emphasises that intelligence can be achieved without the kinds of representations common in symbolic AI systems. The paper argues that such representations might indeed not be needed for many aspects of sensorimotor intelligence but become a crucial issue when bootstrapping to higher levels of cognition. It proposes a scenario in the form of evolutionary language games by which embodied agents develop situated grounded representations adapted to their needs and the conventions emerging in the population.
A Peer-to-Peer Advertising Game
, 2003
"... Advertising plays a key role in service oriented recommendation over a peer-to-peer network. The advertising problem can be considered as the problem of finding a common language to denote the peers' capabilities and needs. Up to now the current approaches to the problem of advertising revealed ..."
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Advertising plays a key role in service oriented recommendation over a peer-to-peer network. The advertising problem can be considered as the problem of finding a common language to denote the peers' capabilities and needs. Up to now the current approaches to the problem of advertising revealed that the proposed solutions either a#ect the autonomy assumption or do not scale up the size of the network. We explain how an approach based on language games can be e#ective in dealing with the typical issue of advertising: do not require ex-ante agreement and to be responsive to the evolution of the network as an open system. In the
The Evolution of Communication Systems by Adaptive Agents
- Adaptive Agents and Multi-Agent Systems: Adaptation and Multi-Agent Learning. LNAI 2636
, 2003
"... Abstract. The paper surveys some of the mechanisms that have been demonstrated to be relevant for evolving communication systems in software simulations or robotic experiments. In each case, precursors or parallels with work in the study of artificial life and adaptive behaviour are discussed. 1 ..."
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Abstract. The paper surveys some of the mechanisms that have been demonstrated to be relevant for evolving communication systems in software simulations or robotic experiments. In each case, precursors or parallels with work in the study of artificial life and adaptive behaviour are discussed. 1
Advertising Games for Web Services
- ELEVENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COOPERATIVE INFORMATION SYSTEMS (COOPIS-03
, 2003
"... We advance and discuss a framework suitable to study theoretical implications and practical impact of language evolution and lexicon sharing in an open distributed multi-agent system. In our approach, the assumption of autonomy plays a key role to preserve the opportunity for the agents of local ..."
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We advance and discuss a framework suitable to study theoretical implications and practical impact of language evolution and lexicon sharing in an open distributed multi-agent system. In our approach, the assumption of autonomy plays a key role to preserve the opportunity for the agents of local encoding of meanings. We consider the application scenario of Web services, where we conceive the problem of advertisement as a matter of sharing a denotational language. We provide a precise formulation of the agents' behavior within a game-theoretical setting. As an important consequence of our "advertising games," we interpret the problem of knowledge interoperability and management in the light of evolutionary dynamics and learning in games. Our methodology is inspired by work in natural language semantics and "language games."
Towards Grounded Human-Robot Communication
, 2002
"... Future robots are expected to communicate with humans using natural language. The nave human user will expect a robot to easily understand what he/she is meaning by instructions concerning robot's tasks. This implies that the robot will need to have a means of grounding, in its own sensors, the natu ..."
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Future robots are expected to communicate with humans using natural language. The nave human user will expect a robot to easily understand what he/she is meaning by instructions concerning robot's tasks. This implies that the robot will need to have a means of grounding, in its own sensors, the natural language terms and constructions used by the human user. This paper presents an approach to solve this problem that is based on the integration of a "learning server" in the software architecture of the robot. Such server should be capable of on-line, incremental learning from examples

