Dear colleagues,

Due to multiple requests, we are happy to grant a two-week extension of the submission deadline for the regular paper submissions and the workshop and tutorial proposal submission. 

Full papers: March  28, 2025. 

Workshop and tutorial proposals—deadline: March 28, 2025. 

We would also like to draw your attention to the template which we have updated. Please kindly use this one: https://ras.papercept.net/conferences/support/support.php. If you have already submitted, you will be able to update it also during the camera-ready submission stage. 

We are also happy to announce that the BabyBot and BabyObserve Challenge winners will receive a prize of 150$, sponsored by the IEEE RAS TC Cognitive Robotics. 

Travel grants are available through IEEE CIS - see https://icdl2025.fel.cvut.cz/travel-grants/.  

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CfP  IEEE ICDL 2025

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https://icdl2025.fel.cvut.cz/    

16–19  September 2025 in Prague; Czechia

2025  IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL)

We  invite submissions to explore, extend, and consolidate the interdisciplinary boundaries of this exciting research field. In addition to the usual paper submission-selection process, we announce two Challenges:  the BabyBot  Challenge  that will award computational models that capture core aspects of specific psychology experiments and (new!!)  BabyObserve Challenge  that will foster the community’s discoveries in research related to the development of cognition and learning and go beyond what is currently in focus. Submissions that address both challenges at the same time are also welcome. There is a prize of 150$ for the winners of the challenges! 

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Important  Deadlines

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Contributed  papers (6–8 pages)—extended deadline: March 28, 2025. 

Workshop and tutorial proposals—extended deadline: March 28, 2025. 

Journal  Track—deadline: April 1, 2025.

Late-breaking  results (1-page abstracts)—deadline: June 13, 2025. 

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Speakers

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Jeff  Krichmar (University of California, Irvine, USA)

Masako  Myowa-Yamakoshi (Kyoto University, Japan)

Giulio  Sandini (IIT Genoa, Italy)

Tilbe  Göksun (Koç University, Turkey)

Josef  Šivic (CIIRC, CTU in Prague, Czechia)

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Topics

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ICDL

 is a unique conference gathering researchers from both computational science (including robotics, AI, cognitive architecture) and developmental studies (psychology, linguistics, anthropology, education, philosophy) for a fertile exchange sharing ideas, perspectives,  knowledge, research findings on how humans and animals develop sensing, reasoning and actions, including interactive ecologies and how these capabilities can be implemented in computing (embodied) systems. This approach goes hand in hand with the goal of both  understanding human and animal development and how this can be applied to improve future intelligent technology including all kinds of artificial systems that will be in close interaction with humans. 

Topics  of interest include (but are not limited to):

–  general principles and theories of development and learning;

–  embodied learning in biological systems and robots;

–  development of skills in biological systems and robots;

–  developmental stages and sensitive periods;

–  architectures for cognitive development and life-long learning;

–  emergence of body knowledge and affordance perception;

–  learning control of body movement;

–  (models of) curiosity, intrinsic motivations, exploration, play and active learning;

–  (models for) prediction, planning and problem solving;

–  developmentally-inspired machine learning; 

–  applications of machine learning to human and animal development;

–  emotional development and the role of emotion in learning;

–  emergence of verbal and nonverbal communication;

–  metacognitive skills and the role of metacognitive learning and explicit communication;

–  (models of) human–human and human–system interaction;

–  epistemological foundations and philosophical issues;

–  the relationship between evolution and development;

–  ethics in modeling learning and development.

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Submission

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We  accept four types of research submissions.

The submissions are available through the PaperPlaza (https://ras.papercept.net/conferences/scripts/start.pl)  system. Detailed instructions are at https://icdl2025.fel.cvut.cz/submission/. 

Full  6-page paper submissions (up to  2 extra pages with additional charge)—deadline: March  28, 2025. 

Papers of up to 6 pages in IEEE double column format will undergo peer-review, and accepted and presented submissions will be included in the conference proceedings published by IEEE Xplore. Up to two extra pages are acceptable for a publication fee of $100 per  page. Accepted papers will be invited for presentation either in oral or poster format Please make use of the template provided at https://ras.papercept.net/conferences/support/support.php 

Workshop  and tutorial proposals—deadline: March 28, 2025. 

Workshops  proposals can be submitted for one-day or half-day-workshop that will take place on the first day of the conference. The proposals should motivate the topic and provide a schedule.

Journal-track posters—deadline: April  1, 2025. 

Journal  track poster submissions must be about a journal paper that has been published the March 2024 – March 2025 period (online ahead of print is fine) on a topic relevant to the conference.

Late-breaking  posters with 1-page abstract—deadline: June 13, 2025.

To  encourage discussion of late-breaking results or for work that is not sufficiently mature for a full paper, we will accept 1-page abstracts. These submissions will not be included in the conference proceedings. Accepted abstracts will be presented during the  poster session.

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BabyBot  Challenge Paper Award

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Babybot  Challenge papers are expected to establish a strong link between developmental psychology and robotics and/or computational modeling. Submissions will be judged by the following criteria:

–  How well does the computational model (e.g., an artificial system, which can be a robot, artificial system, or a software agent) represent the particular features of the experimental research addressed.

–  How closely the performance of the model replicates the experimental findings and how parsimonious is the model.

–  How explicit the model is about cognitive mechanisms and the 

–  The extent of the novel insights or explanations generated by the model, and importantly whether the model make interesting and testable predictions.

We  encourage the authors to tag their submission for “Babybot Challenge” award during contributed paper submission, which would indicate that there is significant content that puts the paper in the spotlight of “Babybot Challenge”.

Prize for winner: 150 $.

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BabyObserve  Challenge Paper Award

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This  Challenge is new, and its intention is to foster the community’s discoveries in research related to the development of cognition and learning that go beyond what is currently in focus.  

BabyObserve  Challenge papers are expected to introduce novel or “edge case” phenomena to the ICDL community from observations of child development, but also related mechanisms, interplays of skills, properties of (environmental and / or social) ecologies that promote  it. 

Observations  can result in quantitative or qualitative research that is further described in the paper.

Submissions  will be judged by the following criteria:

–  How innovative is the phenomenon and why it is important for the ICDL community

–  How well is the phenomenon described to inspire computational models

–  How well is the phenomenon theoretically grounded or linked to the existing literature

We  encourage the authors to tag their submission for “BabyObserve Challenge” award during contributed paper submission, which would indicate that there is significant content that puts the paper in the spotlight of “BabyObserve Challenge”.

Prize for winner: 150 $.

General  chair: Matej Hoffmann

Program  chairs: Alessandra Sciutti, Emre Ugur, Katharina J. Rohlfing