Emergence and Development of Embodied Cognition: - Symposium Announcement

[Luc Berthouze]

First International Symposium on Emergence and Development of Embodied Cognition
				(EDEC99)
February 9, 1999. At AIST Tsukuba Research Center, Auditorium.
Sponsored by Electrotechnical Laboratory (ETL), AIST, MITI 
 and COE program by STA, Japan.

Co-organized by: Dr. Yasuo Kuniyoshi (ETL) and Prof. Rolf Pfeifer (Univ. Zurich)

Language: English.
Participation: Open to public, limited capacity (140seats).

Pre-registration strongly recommended (see our web page).

Content: This is a one-day open symposium consisting of invited talks by 
world leading researchers converging onto the issue of interaction dynamics 
of embodied cognition from the fields of complex systems, biology, 
neuroscience, psychology, cognitive science, autonomous agents and robotics.
The symposium intends to provide an overview and to demonstrate the 
importance of interdisciplinary collaborative efforts into this common 
research issue.

Conference home page: All important information is located at 
http://www.etl.go.jp/etl/robotics/EDEC99/

Pre-Registration: Through our web page, as soon as possible, no later than 
Feb. 1.

Fees: Please pay at the on-site registration desk in cash.
Symposium:	1,000yen. (Including a handout and coffee break.)
Lunchbox:	Fee TBA (Recommended as the cafeteria may be crowded.)
Reception:	3,000yen. (Need prior registration.)

Symposium secretariats: 
 Registration handling & web page manager:$B!!(BFor registration, see our web 
page.
Dr. Luc Berthouze,  Email: berthouz at etl.go.jp
Humanoid Interaction Lab., Intelligent Systems Division, Electrotechnical 
Laboratory.
 Local arrangements:
Ms. Yoko Sato,  Email: yosato at etl.go.jp Tel.:+81-298-54-5180 
Fax.:+81-298-54-5971
Humanoid Interaction Lab., Intelligent Systems Division, Electrotechnical 
Laboratory.

Program
9:00	Registration
9:30 	Yasuo Kuniyoshi	Opening Address - Interdisciplinary EDEC initiative.
9:40 	Rolf Pfeifer	Dynamics, Morphology, and Materials in The Emergence
			of Cognition
10:15	Esther Thelen	Developmental Foundations of Embodied Cognition
10:50	Linda Smith	The Task Dynamics of the A not-B Error
11:25	Kazuo Hiraki	Prediction, Habituation and Attention in the Development of
			Spatial Cognition: Eye-Tracking Data of Infants.

12:00	Lunch

13:00	Shoji Itakura	Comparative Cognitive Approach -- Ontogeny, Phylogeny, 
			and 'Robogeny': In the Case of Primate Social Cognition
13:35	Gentaro Taga 	Complex Systems Approach to Development of Action
			and Perception of Infants
14:10	Yasuo Kuniyoshi	Towards Emergence and Development of Meaningful
			Interaction Structures through Complex Embodiment 
			- A Humanoid Robot 
14:35	Luc Berthouze	Emergence of Embodied Interaction: The Internal Dynamics
			Perspective

15:00	Break

15:15	Olaf Sporns	Synthetic Neural Modeling: An Approach to Study the
			Interaction of Neural Dynamics and Behavior
15:50	Philippe Gaussier	From dynamical behaviors to dynamical perception
16:25	Gregor Schoener	The Dynamic Field and Its Preshaping: Concepts toward a 
			General Theoretical Framework of Embodied Cognition.
17:00	Takashi Ikegami	Simulating a "Theory of Mind" in Coupled Dynamical 
			Recognizers --- Embodiment as Dynamic Interfaces ---
17:35	Closing Discussions
18:00	Symposium Closes
18:30 	Reception.

List of Presenters
1. Prof. Rolf PFEIFER
Director of AI Lab, Computer Science Department, University of Zurich 
2. Prof. Esther THELEN
Professor, Psychology & Cognitive Science, Indiana University
3. Prof. Linda SMITH
Professor, Psychology & Cognitive Science, Indiana University
4. Dr. Kazuo HIRAKI
Senior Research Scientist, Information Science Division,
Electrotechnical Laboratory
5. Prof. Shoji ITAKURA
Associate Professor, Department of Health Sciences, Oita
University of Nursing and Health Sciences
6. Prof. Gentaro TAGA
Research Assistant Professor, Department of Pure and Applied Sciences,
The University of Tokyo
7. Dr. Yasuo KUNIYOSHI
Senior Research Scientist, Intelligent Systems Division,
Electrotechnical Laboratory
8. Dr. Luc BERTHOUZE
Research Scientist, Intelligent Systems Division,
Electrotechnical Laboratory
9. Dr. Olaf SPORNS
Senior Fellow in Theoretical and Experimental Neurobiology,
The Neurosciences Institute
10. Prof. Philippe GAUSSIER
Professor, The Image and Signal Processing Lab, ENSEA - The Cergy
Pontoise University
11. Prof. Gregor SCHOENER
Director, National Research Center of Cognitive Neuroscience, CNRS
12. Prof. Takashi IKEGAMI
Associate Professor, Institute of Physics, College of Arts and Sciences,
The University of Tokyo


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Dr. Luc Berthouze, Research Scientist,
Intelligent Systems Division
Electrotechnical Laboratory (ETL), AIST, MITI, Japan.
Tel.+81-298-54-5369 Fax.+81-298-54-5971
1-1-4 Umezono, Tsukuba 305-8568, Japan.
Email: berthouz at etl.go.jp
http://www.etl.go.jp/~berthouz