Robot–robot gesturing for anchoring representations

P Kondaxakis, K Gulzar, S Kinauer… - IEEE Transactions …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In a multirobot system, using shared symbols for objects in the environment is a prerequisite
for collaboration. Sharing symbols requires that each agent has anchored a symbol with an …

Now you feel it, now you don't: How observing human-robot interactions and human-human interactions can make you feel eerie

S Quadflieg, I Ul-Haq, N Mavridis - Interaction Studies, 2016 - jbe-platform.com
Robots seemingly in possession of an experiential mind, as well as humans allegedly
incapable thereof, have been reported to elicit feelings of eeriness in their perceivers. The …

Neurotypical and autistic children aged 6 to 7 years in a speaker-listener situation with a human or a minimalist InterActor robot

I Giannopulu, V Montreynaud… - The 23rd IEEE …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Language offers the possibility to transfer information between speaker and listener who
both possess the ability to use it. Using a “speaker-listener” situation, we have compared the …

Learning adjectives and nouns from affordances on the icub humanoid robot

O Yürüten, KF Uyanık, Y Çalışkan… - From Animals to Animats …, 2012 - Springer
This article studies how a robot can learn nouns and adjectives in language. Towards this
end, we extended a framework that enabled robots to learn affordances from its …

Visual re-identification of individual objects: A core problem for organisms and AI

C Fields - Cognitive processing, 2016 - Springer
Two open questions about the visual re-identification of individual objects over extended
time periods are briefly reviewed:(1) How much a priori information about the nature of …

Evolving grounded spatial language strategies

M Spranger - KI-Künstliche Intelligenz, 2013 - Springer
Each natural language phrase is evidence for a particular strategy of construing reality. One
domain where this has been extensively studied is spatial language, which reveals an …

Why we should build robots that both teach and learn

T Adamson, D Ghose, SC Yasuda… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
In this paper, we argue in favor of creating robots that both teach and learn. We propose a
methodology for building robots that can learn a skill from an expert, perform the skill …

Interactive language understanding with multiple timescale recurrent neural networks

S Heinrich, S Wermter - Artificial Neural Networks and Machine Learning …, 2014 - Springer
Natural language processing in the human brain is complex and dynamic. Models for
understanding, how the brain's architecture acquires language, need to take into account …

Hierarchical action learning by instruction through interactive grounding of body parts and proto-actions

M Petit, Y Demiris - 2016 IEEE International Conference on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Learning by instruction allows humans programming a robot to achieve a task using spoken
language, without the requirement of being able to do the task themselves, which can be …

Analysing the multiple timescale recurrent neural network for embodied language understanding

S Heinrich, S Magg, S Wermter - Artificial Neural Networks: Methods and …, 2015 - Springer
How the human brain understands natural language and how we can exploit this
understanding for building intelligent grounded language systems is open research …