Call for papers: Interdisciplinary workshop on the development of body knowledge in humans and machines

19^th September 2016, Cergy-Pontoise / Paris
http://bodyschemaworkshop.blogspot.it

held in the framework of ICDL-EPIROB 2016 conference:

http://www.etis.ensea.fr/neurocyber/ICDL-EPIROB2016/home.php

Following the previous workshops on the development of body representations in humans and robots at ICDL-EPIROB, we have the pleasure to announce a forthcoming workshop in Cergy-Pontoise / Paris on the 19^th September 2016.

The aim of this workshop is to spark collaboration between roboticists and developmental psychologists in order to address the origins of the sensorimotor maps that underlie own body representations in both infants and robots. The development of infants’ body knowledge is a primary object of discovery starting before birth. This construction ultimately enables the infant to efficiently interact with the environment. The specific goal of the organizers is to explore the possibility of developing robotic models inspired by the development of human infant body representations.

Presentations will consider body knowledge acquisition from sensorimotor, neural and computational perspectives. After the presentations, the discussion will aim at establishing an integrative framework for understanding a) the development of body knowledge in infants, b) the mechanisms that underlie body knowledge acquisition and c) how robots can be used to replicate developmental patterns and progressions that have been found in human infants. On the one hand such robots can become new modeling tools for empirical sciences – expanding the domain of computational modeling by anchoring it to the physical environment and a physical body. On the other hand, robot controllers endowed with multimodal whole-body awareness typical of humans should increase robots’ autonomy.
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We invite contributions concerning the development of body knowledge in humans and/or machines. Please submit a one-page abstract describing your poster by the 5th of August 2016 to the following address:

icdlbodyworkshop@gmail.com

Presenters of a poster will be expected to be present on the 19th of September 2016 for a teasers-session and for the poster session. During the teasers-session each presenter will introduce their poster in a 2-minute oral presentation (with 2-3 pdf slides). During the poster session they will then have the opportunity to explain their poster and to hand out any leaflets or other information materials they have available for viewers of their poster.

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Important dates
Abstract submission: August 5, 2016.
Notification of acceptance: August 15, 2016.
Submission of 2-3 slides (pdf): September 15, 2016.
Workshop day: September 19, 2016.
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Speakers

Prof. Jeffrey Lockman, PhD. Department of Psychology, Tulane University, USA.
Kevin O’Regan, PhD. Research scientist, Laboratoire Psychologie de la Perception, Paris Descartes University, Paris, France.
Matej Hoffmann, PhD. Researcher, iCub Facility, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy.
Prof. Minoru Asada, PhD. Research director, Division of Cognitive Neuroscience Robotics, Institute for Academic Initiatives, Osaka University, Japan.
Andrew Bremner, PhD. Reader in psychology and head of department, Goldsmiths University, London, UK.
Gianluca Baldassare, PhD. Researcher, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, Italian National Research Council, Rome, Italy.

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Venue
Cergy-Pontoise University: http://www.etis.ensea.fr/neurocyber/ICDL-EPIROB2016/home.php
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Website
Please check the website http://bodyschemaworkshop.blogspot.fr/ for updated information about the workshop!
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Organizers
Eszter Somogyi, PhD

Postdoc researcher, Laboratoire Psychologie de la Perception, Paris Descartes University, France

Matej Hoffmann, PhD

Researcher, iCub Facility, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy

Lorenzo Jamone, PhD

Associate researcher, VisLab, Instituto de Sistemas e Robotica, Lisbon, Portugal
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Contact information
Eszter Somogyi, PhD

Postdoc researcher, Laboratoire Psychologie de la Perception, Paris Descartes University, France

esomogyi@gmail.com