Section: Dissemination

Promoting Scientific Activities

Scientific Events Organisation

General Chair, Scientific Chair

• PY. Oudeyer has been general co-chair of the "Designing for curiosity" workshop at CHI 2017, Denver, Colorado, US;

• PY. Oudeyer has co-organized the 3rd International Symposium on Intrinsically Motivated Open-Ended Learning, Rome, Italy;

• PY. Oudeyer has co-organized the IEEE IJCNN 2017 Special Session on COGNITION AND DEVELOPMENT;

• D. Roy was general chair for the conference "Robotique et Education", Bordeaux, France.

Member of the Organizing Committees

• PY. Oudeyer has been "Robotics Liaison" of IJCNN 2017, Anchorage, Alaska.

Scientific Events Selection

Member of the Conference Program Committees

• PY. Oudeyer has been in the conference program committee of IEEE ICDL-Epirob conference.

Reviewer

• David Filliat was reviewer for the IROS, ECMR, ICDL, HRI, ICRA conferences.

• Sébastien Forestier was reviewer for IEEE ICDL-Epirob, ICRA

• Natalia Díaz Rodríguez was reviewer for JAIR 2017 (Journal of AI Research) and Area Chair (meta-reviewer) for WIML 2017 (Women in Machine Learning Workshops at NIPS 2017).

Journal

Member of the Editorial Boards

• PY. Oudeyer was associate editor of IEEE Transactions on CDS and Frontiers in Neurorobotics.

Reviewer - Reviewing Activities

• David Filliat was reviewer for IEEE Transaction on Robotics, IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems, Robotics and Automation Letters.

• O. Sigaud has been a reviewer for the Autonomous Robots journal and for the ICLR and the NIPS conferences

• PY. Oudeyer has been a reviewer for the journals IEEE Transactions on CDS and Child and Development Perspectives.

Invited Talks

• David Filliat gave an invited presentation “Autonomous Learning and AI for interactive Robotics” during the 50 years of Inria event on november 8th.

• O. Sigaud gave an invited presentation “Deep Learning for Robotics: Promises and Issues” at the Journées Nationales de la Recherche en Robotique on november 16th.

• O. Sigaud gave an invited presentation “Towards developmental discovery of objects in dynamical scenes" at the workshop on Intrinsically Motivated Open-Ended Learning, Rome, Italy, 9th october

• PY. Oudeyer gave an invited presentation "Intrinsically Motivated Goal Exploration Processes" at the worchop on Intrinsically Motivated Open-Ended Learning, Rome, Italy, 9th october;

• PY. Oudeyer gave an invited presentation "Computational Models of Human Cognitive Development" at the 29th Eleanor Gibson lecture, Cornell Univ., US, April,

• PY. Oudeyer gave an invited presentation "Models of curiosity-driven learning" at Univ. Rochester, US, April.

• PY. Oudeyer gave an invited presentation "Curiosity-driven learning and language acquisition" at the workshop on language acquisition at IEEE ICDL-Epirob, Lisbon, Portugal, Sept.;

• PY. Oudeyer gave an invited presentation "Robotique Pédagogique" at the Journées Nationales de la Recherche en Robotique on november 16th.

• PY. Oudeyer gave an invited presentation "Intrinsically motivated learning and curiosity in humans and robots" at the "Designing for curiosity" workshop at CHI 2017, Denver, US;

Leadership within the Scientific Community

• Natalia Díaz Rodríguez attended and organized a workshop within the Heidelberg Laureate Forum Sept. 2017 on Machine learning and Human-Computer Interaction.

• PY. Oudeyer co-organized the "Designing for curiosity" workshop at CHI 2017 (Denver, US), the IMOL 2017 workshop (Rome, Italy), and was co-editor of the special issue on "Modeling play in early infant development" in Frontiers in Psychology.

• PY. Oudeyer has been editor of the IEEE CIS Newsletter on Cognitive and Developmental systems, organizing two interdisciplinary dialogs, see https://openlab-flowers.inria.fr/t/ieee-cis-newsletter-on-cognitive-and-developmental-systems/129.

Scientific Expertise

• PY. Oudeyer has been a reviewer for the European Commission (FET program).