Towards the synthetic self: making others perceive me as an other

Lallee, Stéphane; Vouloutsi, Vasiliki; Grechuta, Klaudia; Llobet, Jordi-Ysard Puigbo; Sarda, Marina; Verschure, Paul F. M. J.

doi:10.1515/pjbr-2015-0010

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“…Anthropomorphism also allows the robot to show facial expressions, whose importance as a communicative channel has been extensively defended [17], [24]. Other perceptual cues that facilitate Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) are related to non-verbal communication channels such as gaze, eye contact, gestures, imitation and synchronization [29], [25]. Eye contact is seen as a highly communicative indicator of attention and as a sign of presence of someone else [6].…”

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Analyzing children's expectations from robotic companions in educational settings

Blancas

Vouloutsi

Fernando

et al. 2017

2017 IEEE-RAS 17th International Conference on Humanoid Robotics (Humanoids)

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Abstract-The use of robots as educational partners has been extensively explored, but less is known about the required characteristics these robots should have to meet children's expectations. Thus the purpose of this study is to analyze children's assumptions regarding morphology, functionality, and body features, among others, that robots should have to interact with them. To do so, we analyzed 142 drawings from 9 to 10 years old children and their answers to a survey provided after interacting with different robotic platforms. The main results convey on a gender-less robot with anthropomorphic (but machine-like) characteristics.

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Analyzing children's expectations from robotic companions in educational settings

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Vouloutsi

Fernando

et al. 2017

2017 IEEE-RAS 17th International Conference on Humanoid Robotics (Humanoids)

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“…Hence, the common frame of reference would be the mirroring of a multi-dimensional self … rather than the ability to interpret and execute action alone." They mention a proof of concept involving communicative humanoid robots who are able to realize complex, open-ended and dynamic dyadic tasks with a human (Lallee et al, 2015), building on earlier work (Lallee & Dominey, 2013) with Peter Dominey, the originator of DCG.…”

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Primates, computation, and the path to language

Arbib

2016

Physics of Life Reviews

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The target article (Arbib, 2015), henceforth TA, had as its main title Towards a Computational Comparative Neuroprimatology. This unpacks into three claims:  Comparative Primatology: If one wishes to understand the behavior of any one primate species (whether monkey, ape or human -TA did not discuss, e.g., lemurs but that study could well be of interest), one will gain new insight by comparing behaviors across species, sharpening one's analysis of one class of behaviors by analyzing similarities and differences between two or more species. Comparative Neuroprimatology: This adds the challenge of comparing brains across primate species and seeking to relate comparisons of brain and of behavior. Computational Comparative Neuroprimatology: Here the aim is to go beyond informal analysis of brainbehavior relations, using computational modeling to assess the contributions of specific brain regions or neural circuitry to a class of behaviors in one species, proceeding thence to offer a more detailed analysis of how neural similarities/differences across species can enrich our understanding of behavioral similarities/differencesWe may see this as an important subclass of computational neuroethology, providing a particular perspective on ethology, the study of animal behavior more generally. Much current neuroscience uses genetically modified mice to explore neural mechanisms, so future work may increasingly consider mice as "honorary primates"but this observation points up a major lacuna in the TA and the commentaries, namely the role of genetics. However, we do extend the study "upwards" from studying the brain and body of a single individual to the study of social interactions.The subtitle Framing the Language-Ready Brain offers an interlocking set of case studies to exemplify computational comparative neuroprimatology. It combined  A summary of prior work on the Mirror System Hypothesis (MSH) for the evolution of the human languageready brain, based on comparison of monkey, ape and human praxis and communicationspanning from Arbib

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“…As suggested by Baxter and Belpaeme [19] as well as Lallee et al [20], social robots require a long-term memory to improve long-term interaction with humans. Therefore, as our fifth contribution, we introduce human-robot interaction capabilities for all of the previously mentioned contributions.…”

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Lifelong Augmentation of Multimodal Streaming Autobiographical Memories

Petit¹,

Fischer²,

Demiris³

2016

IEEE Trans. Cogn. Dev. Syst.

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Abstract-Robot systems that interact with humans over extended periods of time will benefit from storing and recalling large amounts of accumulated sensorimotor and interaction data. We provide a principled framework for the cumulative organisation of streaming autobiographical data so that data can be continuously processed and augmented as the processing and reasoning abilities of the agent develop and further interactions with humans take place. As an example, we show how a kinematic structure learning algorithm reasons a-posteriori about the skeleton of a human hand. A partner can be asked to provide feedback about the augmented memories, which can in turn be supplied to the reasoning processes in order to adapt their parameters. We employ active, multi-modal remembering, so the robot as well as humans can gain insights of both the original and augmented memories. Our framework is capable of storing discrete and continuous data in real-time. The data can cover multiple modalities and several layers of abstraction (e.g. from raw sound signals over sentences to extracted meanings). We show a typical interaction with a human partner using an iCub humanoid robot. The framework is implemented in a platform-independent manner. In particular, we validate its multi platform capabilities using the iCub, Baxter and NAO robots. We also provide an interface to cloud based services, which allow automatic annotation of episodes. Our framework is geared towards the developmental robotics community, as it 1) provides a variety of interfaces for other modules, 2) unifies previous works on autobiographical memory, and 3) is licensed as open source software.

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Towards the synthetic self: making others perceive me as an other

Cited by 18 publications

References 5 publications

Analyzing children's expectations from robotic companions in educational settings

Analyzing children's expectations from robotic companions in educational settings

Primates, computation, and the path to language

Lifelong Augmentation of Multimodal Streaming Autobiographical Memories

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