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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Still a few days to submit to IEEE ICDL: deadline extended to ***April 3<sup>rd</sup>***!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>-----------------------------------</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>CfP IEEE ICDL 2026</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>-----------------------------------</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><a href="https://attend.ieee.org/icdl-2026/">https://attend.ieee.org/icdl-2026/</a></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>15–18 September 2026 in Kyoto, Japan</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>2026 IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL)</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>We invite submissions that advance our understanding of the development and learning of intelligent systems—both natural and artificial. ICDL brings together researchers from developmental science, neuroscience, psychology, cognitive science, robotics, and artificial intelligence, fostering interdisciplinary dialogue on embodied, cognitive, and lifelong learning.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>In ICDL 2026, we continue to promote a broad range of contributions and highlight two Challenge Awards (BabyBot Challenge and BabyObserve Challenge), which encourage strong connections between computational modeling, developmental phenomena, and robotics.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>-----------------------------------</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Important Deadlines</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>-----------------------------------</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>***April <span style='color:black'>3</span>***<span style='color:black'>, 2026 (23:59 AoE)</span></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>- Full Papers (6 pages; up to +2 pages with fee)</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>- Workshop & Tutorial Proposals</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>April </span><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>1<span style='color:black'>, 2026 (23:59 AoE)</span></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>- Journal Presentations</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>June 12, 2026 (23:59 AoE)</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>- Late-Breaking Results (1–2 pages)</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>-----------------------------------</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Keynote Speakers</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>-----------------------------------</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>- Yukiyasu Kamitani (Kyoto University, Japan)</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>- Victoria Leong (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>- Georg Martius (MPI-IS / University of Tübingen, Germany)</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>- Tim Verbelen (VERSES, USA)</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>More speakers will be announced soon.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>-----------------------------------</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Topics</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>-----------------------------------</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>ICDL is a unique conference gathering researchers from computational sciences (robotics, AI, cognitive architectures) and developmental studies (psychology, linguistics, anthropology, neuroscience, philosophy). We welcome submissions on topics including, but not limited to:</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>- general principles and theories of development and learning</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>- embodied learning in biological systems and robots</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>- development of motor, perceptual, and cognitive skills</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>- developmental stages and sensitive periods</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>- architectures for cognitive development and lifelong learning</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>- emergence of body knowledge and affordance perception</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>- motor learning and control of body movements</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>- curiosity, intrinsic motivations, exploration, play, active learning</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>- prediction, planning, and problem solving</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>- developmentally inspired machine learning</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>- applications of machine learning to human and animal development</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>- AI and machine learning methods for developmental and behavioral sciences</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>- emotional development and the role of emotion in learning</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>- emergence of verbal and nonverbal communication</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>- metacognitive skills and explicit communication</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>- human–human and human–system interaction</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>- epistemological and philosophical foundations</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>- relationships between evolution and development</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>- ethics in modeling learning and development</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>-----------------------------------</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Submission</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>-----------------------------------</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>ICDL 2026 accepts four types of submissions.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Full Papers (6 pages + optional 2 pages)</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Deadline: March 13, 2026 (23:59 AoE)</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Original, mature research contributions. Accepted papers will be presented orally or as posters and included in the IEEE ICDL 2026 Proceedings on IEEE Xplore.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Workshops & Tutorials</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Deadline: March 13, 2026 (23:59 AoE)</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>We invite proposals for half-day or full-day workshops or tutorials (optionally including competitions).</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Journal Presentations</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Deadline: April 1, 2026 (23:59 AoE)</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Poster presentations of journal papers published between April 2025 and March 2026.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Late-Breaking Results (1–2 pages)</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Deadline: June 12, 2026 (23:59 AoE)</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>For late-breaking or early-stage research. Accepted submissions will be presented as posters but not included in IEEE Xplore.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>For detailed submission instructions, please refer to:</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>- <a href="https://attend.ieee.org/icdl-2026/contribute/call-for-papers/">https://attend.ieee.org/icdl-2026/contribute/call-for-papers/</a></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>- <a href="https://attend.ieee.org/icdl-2026/contribute/call-for-workshops-tutorials/">https://attend.ieee.org/icdl-2026/contribute/call-for-workshops-tutorials/</a></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>-----------------------------------</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Challenge Awards</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>-----------------------------------</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>BabyBot Challenge Award</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Recognizes computational models that strongly connect developmental psychology with robotics or computational modeling.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Evaluated on:</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>– representation of targeted experimental phenomena</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>– replication of empirical findings and parsimony</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>– clarity of cognitive mechanisms and novel insights/predictions</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Authors may opt-in during submission.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>BabyObserve Challenge Award</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Highlights novel or "edge case" observational phenomena in child development that may inspire computational modeling.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Evaluated on:</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>– novelty and importance of the phenomenon</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>– clarity for inspiring computational models</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>– theoretical grounding and links to existing literature</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Authors may opt-in during submission.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>General Chair: Tadahiro Taniguchi</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Program Chair: Shingo Murata</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Program Co-Chairs: Tatsuya Daikoku, Pablo Lanillos, Junko Kanero, Alejandra Ciria, Namiko Saito </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>