Convention - Keynote Speakers
Social Intelligence and Interaction in Animals, Robots and Agents
Invited Speakers:
- Prof. Luc Steels
- Director of the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at Free University of Brussels (VUB),
Belgium and Director of Sony Computer Science Laboratory
Paris, France
- Stages and challenges in evolving language-like communication for robotic agents
- The talk surveys attempts to culturally evolve language-like communication systems through situated language games with embodied agents (robots). A number of prerequisites are discussed (turn-taking, joint attention, etc.) followed by a number of stages that seem to be useful plateaus in simulation and robotic experimentation. Although a lot of exciting breakthroughs have been achieved in research on language evolution the past 10 years, there are still enormous challenges ahead of us.
- Stages and challenges in evolving language-like communication for robotic agents
- Prof. Jacqueline Nadel
- Director of Development and Psychopathology Group, National Centre of Scientific Research,
Hôpital de la Salpêtrière, Paris, France
- Looking at the many faces of human socio-cognitive development: can it help designing 'social' robots?
- Abstract
- Looking at the many faces of human socio-cognitive development: can it help designing 'social' robots?
- Prof. Hiroshi Ishiguro
- Professor of Department of Adaptive Machine Systems, Osaka University and
Visiting group leader of ATR Intelligent Robotics and Communications
Laboratories
- From inter-personal to social relationships with robots - Studies on interactive humanoids and androids
- We have developed several humanoid robots and evaluated the possibility to have inter-personal and social relationships with people through several field tests. There are two fundamental issues on which we are focusing. One is "behavior and appearance" problem in the inter-personal relationship and the other is "robot sociality" in human society. The author discusses development and evaluation of interactive humanoid robots by referring to these fundamental issues. Related web pages: http://www.ed.ams.eng.osaka-u.ac.jp, http://www.irc.atr.jp.
- From inter-personal to social relationships with robots - Studies on interactive humanoids and androids
- Prof. Nigel Gilbert
- Professor of Sociology at the University of Surrey and Director of the Centre for
Research in Social Simulation
- Computational sociology
- Developments in multi-agent based simulation have offered a new way of doing sociology: by conducting virtual experiments on artificial societies. In this talk, I shall review the recent achievements of such computational sociology, comment on the implications for sociological methodology, and consider whether this way of doing sociology can make any impression on its 'big questions', such as understanding social stratification, culture and power.
- Computational sociology
- Dr. Alison Jolly
- Visiting Senior Scientist, Department of Biology and Environmental Science, University
of Sussex, UK
- Social Intelligence in Primates and Primatologists
- Japanese primatologists of the school of Imanishi and western ones since Jane Goodall allow themselves to rejoice in the individual personalities of monkeys, apes, and even lemurs. As scientists, though, we attempt to analyse primate society in terms of evolutionary success to the most competetive genes, with social cooperation as a means for successful competition. "Machiavellian intelligence" to manipulate the behavior of others and social learning how to manipulate the environment are fundamental to great ape societies including out own. Is any other kind of intelligence possible for evolving beings, or is it just difficult for us to imagine?
- Social Intelligence in Primates and Primatologists