Section: Dissemination

Promoting Scientific Activities

Scientific events organisation

General chair

D Roy organized and was general chair of Colloque Robotique et Education (june 2015) : Research, users reports, talks and workshops about robotics for education. Program : http://dm1r.fr/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/colloque_robotique_education_2324062015.pdf . Videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9T8000j7sJDcOoHA8r18561F3jDXZASN .

Member of the organizing committees

• PY Oudeyer was member of the steering committee of the fOSSa international conference on Free Open Source Software, Nantes: https://fossa.inria.fr .

• PY Oudeyer was workshop chair of the IJCNN 2015 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, Killarney, Ireland: http://www.ijcnn.org

• PY Oudeyer has been member of the steering committee of the IEEE ICDL-Epirob International Conference on Development and Learning and Epigenetics Robotics.

Scientific events selection

Member of the conference program committees

• David Filliat was Associate Editor for IROS, and member of the conference committee for ECMR.

• Manuel Lopes was member of the conference committee for HRI, AAMAS.

• PY Oudeyer was member of the program committee of IEEE ICDL-Epirob

Reviewer

• Manuel Lopes was reviewer for IJCAI, IROS, ICRA.

• David Filliat was reviewer for ESANN, RFIA, ECMR.

• Pierre Rouanet was reviewer for IROS.

• Thibaut Munzer was reviewer for IROS.

• PY Oudeyer was reviewer for IEEE ICDL-Epirob, IROS, ICRA.

Journal

Member of the editorial boards

• PY Oudeyer has been Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE CIS Newsletter on Cognitive and Developmental Systems, http://icdl-epirob.org/cdsnl

• PY Oudeyer and Clément Moulin-Frier guest edited a special issue of the Journal of Phonetics, on the cognitive nature of speech sounds.

• PY Oudeyer has been associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development, Frontiers in Humanoid Robotics, Frontiers in Neurorobotics, IEEE RAS Letters.

• Manuel Lopes is an associated editor for the, IEEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development

Reviewer - Reviewing activities

• Pierre Rouanet has reviewed papers for the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L).

• Anna-Lisa Vollmer was reviewer for Frontiers in Robotics and AI and Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development

• David Filliat was reviewer for International Journal of Robotics Research, IEEE Transaction on Robotics

• PY Oudeyer was reviewer for Infancy, Journal of Infant Behavioral Development, Journal of Phonetics, IEEE TAMD.

Invited talks

• PY Oudeyer gave a keynote talk at the Evostar 2015 international conference on bio-inspired computation: http://www.evostar.org/2015/ , entitled “Open-source baby robots for science, education and art, april 2015.

• PY Oudeyer gave a keynote talk at the Devoxx 2015 international conference, entitled “Building open-source robots capable of autonomous learning” http://www.devoxx.fr , april 2015.

• PY Oudeyer gave a keynote talk at the BICA 2015 international conference on Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architecture, entitled “Developmental robotics and open-ended learning”, https://liris.cnrs.fr/bica2015/wiki/doku.php/start , nov. 2015.

• PY Oudeyer gave a Spotligh talk at the OEB 2015 international conference on technology supported learning and training

• PY Oudeyer gave a talk at “Journée Brain”, Univ. Bordeaux, entitled “Open-source baby robots: modelling sensorimotor development with robots”, may 2015.

• PY Oudeyer gave a talk at Colloque GEII entitled “Poppy: Open-sour ce educational robot platform”, june 2015

• PY Oudeyer, “Modélisation robotique du développement cognitif', sensoritmoteur et social”, CogTalk, Zig Zag bar/Association of cognitive science students of Univ. Bordeaux, feb. 2015.

• PY Oudeyer, “Robotique développementale et sociale”, Workshop Interactions Homme-Robots dans le contexte d'applications culturelles, La Rochelle, sept. 2015.

• PY Oudeyer, “Online optimization and personalization of teaching sequences: from developmental robotics to e-learning”, International Teacher's Cognition workshop, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris

• PY Oudeyer, “Auto-organisation et curiosité dans le développement et l'évolution du langage”, Séminaire du laboratoire du LATTICE, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris.

• PY Oudeyer, “Histoire et enjeux éducatifs de l'intelligence artificielle et de la robotique”, dialog with JG Ganascia and M Doueihi at the Artificial Intelligence and Society seminar at College des Bernardins, Paris, oct. 2015.

• F. Stulp, Robot Skill Learning: Back to the Future, 22.10.2015, Josef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia.

• F. Stulp, Many regression algorithms, one unified model - A tutorial”, 23.10.2015, Josef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia

• A.-L. Vollmer, Teaching, a bidirectional process: Evidence from adult-child and human-robot interaction, 09.09.2015, Tenth International School on Mind, Brain and Education, Ettore Majorana Foundation, Erice, Italy.

• M. Lopes, Interactive Learning for Cooperative Human-Robot Tasks, Algorithms for Human Robot Interaction Workshop, University of Berkeley, USA

• M. Lopes, Exploration Biases for Task Learning In Machines and Animals, Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, USA

• W. Schueller, Active Learning and Active Control of Complexity Growth in Naming Games, Complexity & Quantitative Linguistics Lab, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

• Boussoles du numérique (october 2015), Didier Roy, Stéphanie Noirpoudre, Thibault Desprez

• Assises nationales de la médiation numérique (novembre 2014), Didier Roy, Pierre-Yves Oudeyer

• Escales de l'éducation (ligue de l'enseignement) (september 2015), Didier Roy

• Symposium Scratch Amsterdam (août 2015) : presentation of Snap! programming

• Cap Sciences (several events during the year), Didier Roy

• Forum EIDOS 64 Pau : talks about educational robotics, Didier Roy

Leadership within the scientific community

PY Oudeyer has been Chair of IEEE CIS Autonomous Mental Development Technical Committee, and leaded its transformation into the IEEE CIS Cognitive and Developmental Systems Technical Committee.

Through his role of editor-in-chief of the IEEE CIS Newsletter on Cognitive and Developmental Systems, PY Oudeyer contributed to strengthn the interdisciplinary exchanges among developmental sciences, and in particular organized two interdisciplinary dialogs on key scientific issues: http://icdl-epirob.org/cdsnl .

Scientific expertise

• PY Oudeyer was expert for the EU Commission scientific programme.

• PY Oudeyer was expert for the OPECST office at Assemblée Nationale, about the role and evolution of robotics within society.

• PY Oudeyer was an expert for the Cherry Project, IPB, Bordeaux.