Provisional
NB: Some Talk Titles are tentative and may be changed in the final programme.
Monday 7th April 2003
13.00 - 14.00 Arrival, Registration, setting up posters
14.00 - 15.00 Keynote Talk: John E. Laird, Tolga Konik: Extending Learning by Observation via Additional Types of Knowledge
15.00 - 15.15 Elhanan Borenstein, Eytan Ruppin: Enhancing autonomous agents evolution with learning by imitation
15.15 - 15.30 N. M. Gotts, J. G. Polhill, A. N. R. Law, L. R. Izquierdo: Dynamics of imitation in a land use simulation
15.30 - 16.00 Coffee
16.00 - 17.00 Keynote Talk: Andrew Whiten: Imitation and the nature of culture for child and chimpanzee
17.00 - 17.30 Geoff Bird and Cecilia Heyes: Effector-specific motor learning by observation
17.30 - 18.00 Frederic Kaplan: Bootstrapping awareness
18.00 - 19.00 Dinner
Tuesday 8th April 2003
07.30 - 09.00 Breakfast
09.00 - 09.15 Official opening of AISB Convention
09.15 - 10.15 AISB Keynote Talk: A. N. Meltzoff and R. Rao: Imitation learning in infants and robots: Towards probabilistic computational models
10.15 - 10.30 Poster presentations I
10.30 - 11.00 Coffee
11.00 - 11.45 Jacqueline Nadel, Arnaud Revel: How to build and imitator
11.45 - 12.15 Kerstin Dautenhahn, Sarah Woods: Possible connections between bullying behaviour, empathy and imitation
12.15 - 13.00 Aris Alisssandrakis, Chrystopher Nehaniv, Kerstin Dautenhahn: Solving the correspondence problem between dissimilarly embodied robotic arms using the ALICE imitation mechanism
13.00 - 14.00 Lunch
14.00 - 14.15 Chrystopher L. Nehaniv: Nine Billion Correspondence Problems and Some Methods for Solving Them
14.15 - 14.30 Poster presentations II
14.30 - 15.30 Keynote Talk: Aude G. Billard, Yann Epars, Gordon Cheng: Determining what to imitate in a manipulation task
15.30 - 16.00 Coffee
16.00 - 17.00 AISB Keynote Talk: Giulio Sandini: Human Babies and Robot Cubs
17.00 - 18.00 AISB AGM meeting
18.00 - 19.00 Dinner
Wednesday 9th April 2003
07.30 - 09.00 Breakfast
09.00 - 10.00 AISB Keynote Talk: Peter Hobson: The interpersonal origins of thinking: How humans achieve what computers (so far) haven't
10.00 - 10.30 Justin H G Williams, Andrew Whiten, David I. Perrett, Anne Gilchrist, Gordon Waiter, Emma Hepburn, Alison Murray: Visuomotor coupling during imitation in autism
10.30 - 11.00 Coffee
11.00 - 11.15 Jessica A. Meyer and R. Peter Hobson: "The way you do the things you do" (when copying) may tell of autism
11.15 - 11.30 Dominic Massaro, Justin Williams, Thomas Suddendorf, Alex Bosseler, Natalie Peel: Lip-reading and visual-auditory integration during speech imitation in autism
11.30 - 11.45 Caroline Potier, Daniel Viezzi, Philippe Gaussier, Jacqueline Nadel: Robotic mouth versus human mouth: a design to study neonatal imitation
11.45 - 12.00 Kerstin Dautenhahn and Iain Werry: Turn-taking and imitative behaviour of children with autism playing with robots
12.00 - 13.00 Keynote Talk: Ludwig Huber: Emulation learning: the integration of technical and social cognition
13.00 - 14.00 Lunch
14.00 - 15.00 AISB Keynote Talk: Gregor Schöner Dynamic field theory and embodied cognition
15.00 - 15.30 Susan Hurley: Imitation, media violence, and freedom of speech
15.30 - 16.00 Coffee
16.00 - 17.00 Poster session
17.00 - 22.30 Steam train trip including waterfall, buffet and bar, coach return
Thursday 10th April 2003
07.30 - 09.00 Breakfast
09.00 - 10.00 Keynote Talk: Robert W. Mitchell: Mirrors and matchings: Imitation from the perspective of mirror-self-recognition
10.00 - 10.15 Robin Allott: Imitation in language and speech
10.15 - 10.30 Pierre-yves Oudeyer: The social formation of acoustic codes with "something simpler"
10.30 - 11.00 Coffee
11.00 - 11.45 Irene Pepperberg: Training behavior by imitation: from parrots to people...to robots?
11.45 - 12.00 Takashi Ikegami, Hiroyuki Iizuka: Joint attention and dynamics repertoire in coupled dynamical recognizers
12.00 - 13.00 AISB Keynote talk: Yiannis Aloimonos: Visual space-time geometry: a geometry of thought
13.00 - 14.00 Lunch
14.00 - 14.30 Mark Nielsen: Synchronic imitation as pre-linguistic social interaction
14.30 - 15.30 Keynote Talk: Mark Norman: Mimicry in octopuses, squids and cuttlefishes: a very different model for robotic imitation?
15.30 - 16.00 Coffee
16.00 - 17.00 Panel discussion
17.00 - 18.00 AISB Keynote Talk: Sorin Solomon: Perception, Cognition and Creativity Emerging from Simple Microscopic Agents
18.00 - 19.00 Dinner
Friday 11th April 2003
07.30 - 09.00 Breakfast
09.00 - 10.00 Keynote Talk: Yiannis Demiris: Robots as modelling tools for imitation
10.00 - 10.15 Ross Clement: Plausible Roles for Social Learning in the Speciation and Evolution of Cichlid Fish
10.15 - 10.30 B. Jansen, B. De Vylder, B. de Boer, T. Belpaeme: Emerging shared action categories in robotic agents through imitation
10.30 - 11.00 Coffee
11.00 - 11.15 Anne Ruth Mackor: The embodied, embedded and affective nature of social cognition: combining Simulation Theory (ST) and Autonomous Agent Theory (AAT)
11.15 - 12.00 Brian Scassellati: Identifying trajectories for imitation of human arm movements
12.00 - 12.45 Discussion