This is an invitation to the next "UHH Informatik Kolloquium"
https://www.inf.uni-hamburg.de/home/news/kolloquium/sose15.html
SPEAKER:
Prof. Angelo Cangelosi
Centre for Robotics and Neural Systems
School of Computing and Mathematics
University of Plymouth
https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/staff/angelo-cangelosi
http://www.tech.plym.ac.uk/soc/staff/angelo/
DATE:
THURSDAY, 16.04.2015, 16:00-18:00.
PLACE:
Konrad-Zuse-Hörsaal, Informatikum, B-201
http://www.inf.uni-hamburg.de/de/service/location
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TOPIC: Developmental Robotics for Embodied Language Learning
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This talk will be held in English
ABSTRACT:
Growing theoretical and experimental research on action and language
processing and on number learning and space epresentation clearly
demonstrates the role of embodiment in cognition and language processing.
In psychology And neuroscience this evidence constitutes the basis of
embodied cognition, also known as grounded cognition (Pezzulo et al.
2012). In robotics, these studies have important implications for the
design of linguistic capabilities in cognitive agents and robots for
human-robot communication, and have led to the new interdisciplinary
approach of Developmental Robotics (Cangelosi & Schlesinger 2015). During
the talk we will present examples of developmental robotics models and
experimental results from iCub experiments on the embodiment biases in
early word acquisition studies, on word order cues for lexical development
and number and space interaction effects. The presentation will also
discuss the implications for the ³symbol grounding problem²
(Cangelosi,2012) and how embodied robots can help addressing the issue of
embodied cognition and the grounding of symbol manipulation use on
sensorimotor intelligence.
REFERENCES:
- Cangelosi A. (2012). Solutions and open challenges for the symbol
grounding problem. International Journal of Signs and Semiotic Systems,
1(1), 49-54 (with commentaries)
- Cangelosi A, Schlesinger M (2015). Developmental Robotics: From Babies
to Robots. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
- Pezzulo G., Barsalou L.W., Cangelosi A., Fischer M.H., McRae K, Spivey
M.J. (2011). The mechanics of embodiment: a dialog on embodiment and
computational modelling. Frontiers in Psychology, 2(5), 1-21
BIO:
Angelo Cangelosi is Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Cognition and
the Director of the Centre for Robotics and Neural Systems at Plymouth
University (UK). Cangelosi studied psychology and cognitive science at the
Universities of Rome La Sapienza and at the University of Genoa, and has
been visiting scholar at the University of California San Diego and the
University of Southampton. Cangelosi's main research expertise is on
language and cognitive modelling in humanoid robots, on language evolution
in multi-agent systems, and the application of bio-inspired techniques to
robot control (e.g. swarm of UAVs). He is the coordinator of the Marie
Curie ITN "RobotDoC: Robotics for Development of Cognition" (2009-2014)
and the UK EPSRC project ³BABEL: Bio-inspired Architecture for Brain
Embodied Language² (2012-2016), and of the FP7 project "ITALK² completed
in 2012. Cangelosi has produced more than 200 scientific publications, and
has chaired numerous workshops and conferences including the IEEE
ICDL-EpiRob 2011 Conference (Frankfurt, August 2011). In 2012-13 he was
Chair of the International IEEE Technical Committee on Autonomous Mental
Development. He will be Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions from
Autonomous Development from January 2015, and currently is Editor of the
journal Interaction Studies. He is co-author, with Matt Schlesinger, of
the forthcoming book ³Developmental Robotics: From Babies to Robots² (MIT
Press, 2015).
CONTACT:
Prof. Dr. Stefan Wermter - WTM
Department of Computer Science, University of Hamburg
https://www2.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/~wermter/
Phone: +49-(0)40-42883-2434
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