Section: Dissemination

Promoting Scientific Activities

• Manuel Lopes made a plenary talk at the conference Technologies de l'Information et de la Communication pour l'Enseignement (TICE), 18-20Novembre, Beziers, France

• Manuel Lopes made an invited talk at the Robotics: Science and Systems : Workshop on Learning Plans with Context From Human Signals, USA.

• Manuel Lopes made an invited talk ICRA Workshop on Active Visual Learning and Hierarchical Visual Representations for General-Purpose Robot Vision, Hong-Kong

• Manuel Lopes made an invited talk ICRA Workshop on Autonomous Grasping and Manipulation: An Open Challenge, Hong-Kong

• Alexander Gepperth gave an invited lecture at the FP7-sponsored Summer School "Neuronal dynamics approaches to cognitive robotics", Bochum, Germany

• Matthieu Lapeyre gave a talk at Journéees Scientifiques Inria 2014 (06/26/2014) about the Poppy project and especially on the open source aspects of the project.

• Matthieu Lapeyre participated to Open experience at WAVE 2014 conference (09/11/2014) about new models of distribution and presented the particularity of Poppy as an open science project.

• Matthieu Lapeyre made a talk at Digital Intelligence 2014 conference held in Nantes (France) about the use of Poppy for educational and artistic applications.

• Olivier Mangin made an invited talk at Language and Body symposium, International Association for the Study of Child Language Conference (IASCL), 14-18 July 2014, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

• Steve N'Guyen gave a talk at the ISIR lab (Institut des Systèmes Intelligents de et Robotique, Paris) about the Poppy project (06/10/2014).

• Clément Moulin-Frier gave two invited talks. The first one was at the Humanoids 2014 conference in Madrid, Spain, during the workshop entitled Active Learning in Robotics: Exploration Strategies in Complex Environments: http://www.ausy.tu-darmstadt.de/Workshops/Humanoids2014ActiveLearning . The second one was at the PyconFr, a French software developer conference: http://www.pycon.fr/2014/schedule/presentation/37/

• Pierre-Yves Oudeyer gave the following talks:

  • (Keynote) (march 2014) Developmental Robotics: : Lifelong Learning and the Morphogenesis of Developmental Structures, AAAI Spring Symposium on Implementing Selves with Safe Motivational Systems and Self-Improvement, Stanford Univ., US. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkv83GKYpkI&list=PL8W4iBcZa2ElG_Q38ihjPdINjgkVXt0Uu

  • (Keynote) (june 2014) Curiosity-driven learning and development: How robots can help us understand humans, WACAI 2014, http://wacai14.litislab.fr/?page_id=140

  • (jan. 2014) Emergence du langage et robotique développementale, Séminaire de l'association X-SHS, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQ5evY4aCkI

  • (feb. 2014) Developmental Robotics: Lifelong Learning and the Morphogenesis of Developmental Structures, Dagstuhl Seminar 14081 on "Robots learning from experiences", http://www.dagstuhl.de/program/calendar/partlist/?semnr=14081&SUOG

  • (march 2014) La robotique comme outil pour comprendre les origines du langage, Rencontres Mollat, Bordeaux.

  • (march 2014) Comment les robots nous aident a comprendre l'homme, Forum des Sciences Cognitives, Paris. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enQYBR3zFpo

  • (april 2014) Fabricating Open-Source Baby Robots, Tedx Cannes, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AP8i435ztwE

  • (april 2014) Poppy: Open Source Robotics Platform for Science, Art and Education, La Cantine, Rennes.

  • (may 2014) Open Source Developmental Robotics, Bodywara workshop Inria/FING, Bordeaux.

  • (june 2014) KidLearn: Machine learning for personalizing educational contents, Digital Intelligence conference, Nantes.

  • (july 2014) The roles of active learning in sensorimotor and language development, International Conference of of the International Society of Infant Studies (ISIS 2014), Symposium on Integrative models of language acquisition, slides: https://www.dropbox.com/s/qcpad2lvbe3fs93/ISIS2014.pptx?dl=0

  • (sept. 2014) Curiosity-driven learning and development in robots, IX Advanced Multimodal Information Retrieval int'l summer school.

  • (oct. 2014) Open source developmental robotics, Séminaire du Centre de Recherche Interdisciplinaire, Univ. Paris VII.

  • (nov. 2014) The impact of curiosity-driven learning on self-organization of developmental process: robotic models, First International Symposium on Information Seeking, Curiosity and Attention, Bordeaux, France, vidéo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ATEhHB99wQ&list=PL9T8000j7sJDZL1NrTL-zyFmeJlvXYXzm

  • (nov. 2014) Modeling cognitive development with robots, Seminar of the Center for Brain and Cognitive Development, Birbeck college.

The past few years have seen a surge of interest in the mechanisms of active learning, curiosity and information seeking, and this body work has highlighted a number of highly significant questions regarding higher cognition and its development (for a recent review, see Tics13). One question is how subjects explore to build explanatory models of their environment, and how these models further constrain the sampling of additional information. A related question is how the brain generates the intrinsic motivation to seek information when physical rewards are absent or unknown, and how this impacts cognitive development in the long term. Our goal is to stimulate discussion on these and related topics and foster further research in this nascent and complex field. https://openlab-flowers.inria.fr/t/first-interdisciplinary-symposium-on-information-seeking-curiosity-and-attention/21

Clément Moulin-Frier will be program chair at the ICDL/Epirob conference to be held in AUgust 2015 in Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA: http://www.icdl-epirob.org/