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DAY1 (Friday, July 22)
08:30- 09:00
 Registration
09:00- 09:20
Introduction : Hideki Kozima and Luc Berthouze
09:20- 10:20
Invited Talk : Masahiro Fujita (Sony Intelligent Dynamics Laboratory)
10:20- 10:50
Morning Break
10:50- 12:10
* Poster Spotlight (13 posters)
12:10- 14:00
Lunch (Buffet) + Poster / Demo session
14:00- 15:05
Imitation Session
14:00- 14:40
Demiris
Dearden
"From motor babbling to hierarchical learning by imitation: a robot developmental pathway"
14:40- 15:05
Andry
Gaussier
Nadel
"Autonomous learning and reproduction of complex sequences: a multimodal architecture for bootstrapping imitation games"
15:05- 15:35
Afternoon Break
15:35- 17:45
Perception/ Action Session
15:35- 16:15
Edsinger-Gonzales
"Developmentally guided ego-exo force discrimination for a humanoid robot"
16:15- 16:55
Torres-Jara
Natale
Fitzpatrick
"Tapping into touch"
16:55- 17:20
Olsson
Nehaniv
Polani
"Discovering motion flow by temporal-informational correlations in sensors"
17:20- 17:45
Kulakov
Stojanov
"Modeling cortical plasticity in natural sensory systems"
19:00- 21:00
Workshop Dinner


DAY 2 (Saturday, July 23)
09:00- 10:40
Motor Session I
09:00- 10:00
Invited Talk : Eugene C. Goldfield (Children's Hospital Boston)
10:00- 10:40
Sun
Scassellati
"Solving the degrees-of-freedom problem in learning reaching"
10:40- 11:10
Morning Break
11:10- 12:30 Motor Session II
11:10- 11:50
Veskos
Demiris
"Developmental acquisition of entrainment skills in robot swinging using van der Pol oscillators"
11:50- 12:30
Konczak
"On the notion of motor primitives in humans and robots"
12:30- 13:30
Lunch
13:30- 15:10
Cognitive Development Session
13:30- 14:30
Invited Talk : Annette Karmiloff-Smith (UC London)
14:30- 15:10
Balkenius
Johansson
"Event prediction and object motion estimation in the development of visual attention"
15:10- 15:40
Afternoon Break
15:40- 16:45
Language Session
15:40- 16:20
Lacerda
Klintfors
Gustavsson
Marklund
Sundberg
"Emerging linguistic functions in early infancy"
16:20- 16:45
Clowes
Morse
"Scaffolding cognition with words"
16:45- 18:00
Cognitive Modeling Session
16:45- 17:10
Vitay
"Towards teaching a robot to count objects"
17:10- 17:35
vanDartel
Postma
"Symbol manipulation by internal simulation of perception and behaviour"
17:35- 18:00
Huang
Weng
"Covert perceptual capability development using reinforcement learning"
Dinner on your own


DAY 3 (Sunday, July 24)
09:00- 10:40

Social Interaction Session I

09:00- 10:00
Invited Talk : Brian Scassellati (Yale University)
10:00- 10:40
Blanchard
Canamero
"From imprinting to adaptation: building a history of affective interaction"
10:40- 11:10
Morning Break
11:10- 12:15
Issues in Epigenetic Robotics Session
11:10- 11:50
Prince
Helder
Hollich
"Ongoing emergence: A core concept in epigenetic robotics"
11:50- 12:15
Metta
Vernon
Sandini
"The RobotCub approach to the development of cognition"
12:15- 12:20
Closing
12:30- 13:30
Business Meeting (over lunch)
14:00- 16:00
Optional tour : Walking to Todaiji

*Invited Talk (1hr) / Long Paper (40min.) / Short Paper (25min.), including discussion time

*POSTERS (DAY1 / 12:00-13:30)
Posters (13)
"A formal approach of developmental robotics and psychology: application to the study of joint attention architecture"
 Prepin, Gaussier, Revel, and Nadel
"Robot gesture generation from environmental sounds using inter-modality mapping"
 Hattori, Kozima, Komatani, Ogata, and Okuno
"Integrating ART into a scalable cognitive architecture"
 Kulakov and Stojanov
"Out in the world: What did the robot hear and see?"
 Aryananda
"Robot self-characterization of experience using trajectories in sensory-motor phase space"
 Mirza, Nehaniv, Boekhorst and Dautenhahn
"How can robots facilitate social interaction of children with autism?"
 Miyamoto, Lee, Fujii and Okada
"What is Animacy in Dynamical Movement?"
 Kuwamura, Yamamoto and Hashimoto
"The role for context in motor development in autism"
 Bjorne and Balkenius
"Segmentation Stability: A key component for joint attention"
 Baillie and Nottale
"Joint attention in the first year: The coordination of gaze and affect between 7 and 10 months of age"
 Stahl and Striano
"Biologically inspired fluidically driven robots"
 Schulz, Pylatiuk, Kargov, Oberle, Klosek, Werner, and Bretthauer
"Speeding up Learning with Dynamic Environment Shaping in Evolutionary Robotics"
 Bredeche and Hugue
"A Platform for Education in 'Interaction Design for Adaptive Robots"
 Oka and Ozaki