3. Can Humans
Create a Robot Society?
• Mimic human development process
• Teach robots to learn to be
socially intelligent
• Robot culture recursively
created via language
4. Cognitive Design of Robots
• Most robots are designed without
regards to social behaviour
• Interaction dynamics matters; context via
language
• Use imitation to augment social interaction
while engaged in robot language learning
5. Lil’ Bit O’ History
Written in 1920
Karel Capek’s R.U.R.:
(Rossum's Universal Robots)
Czech English
‘robota’ = ‘slave labor’
6. Lil’ Bit O’ History
Written in 1920
Karel Capek’s R.U.R.:
(Rossum's Universal Robots)
Czech English
‘robota’ = ‘slave labor’
1. Acquire soul
2. Rebel against ‘owner’
3. Attempt annihilation of
said ‘owner’
7. Artificial
Robot Android
Intelligence
Artificial
Cyborg General
Intelligence
8. Developmental Psychology
What is it?
• Lifespan physical, cognitive, and social
change
Why does it matter?
• Nature/Nurture
• Process
• Change
11. Piaget Framework
Emphasis:
1. Sensorimotor period (Ages 0-2yrs): Learn via senses,
touch, movement. Very egocentric.
2. Preoperational period (Ages 2-7) : Better motor skills,
object orientation. Very intuitive.
3. Concrete operations period (Ages 7-12) : Large logical
leaps ability. No longer egocentric.
4. Formal operations period (Ages 12-15): Ability of logic,
abstract reasoning, hypothetical thought.
12. Vygotsky Framework
Emphasis:
• Cognitive development changes per
cultural and historical factors
• Acquire cultural tools via social
interactions
• Symbolic knowledge acquisition
• Language is key to cognitive development
13. Gah Gah Gah Goo…
Using the Vygotsky
framework one might:
• Socially interact with
robot via imitation
• Synchronization, create
interaction dynamic
• Teach a proto-language;
per each movement,
a meaning/specific ‘word’.
14. Gah Gah Gah Goo…
Using the Vygotsky
framework reply could be:
• Study language transition
• Track the autonomous
response
• Track the robot-human
interaction patterns
• No dirty diapers
19. References and Thank You
Billard, A. & Dautenhahn, K. 1999. Studying robot Thanks to Aubrey
social cognition within a developmental psychology and Ren for
framework. Proc. Eurobot99, Third European consultation, to all
Workshop on Advanced Mobile Robots,
September 1999, Switzerland.
the hardworking
Ignite organizers and
volunteers, and to
Ishiguro, H. & MacDorman, K. 2006. The uncanny
advantage of using androids in cognitive and the Portland
social science research. Interaction Studies, 7:3, community for being
297-337. interested!
Activity InterPretation Project, University of Vienna -Sharon
http://cmp.felk.cvut.cz/projects/actipret/robot.html
human.factor.one@
gmail.com
