Connectionists: [Meetings] CFP - IEEE Int. Conf. Development and Learning (ICDL) 2025

[Matej Hoffmann]

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Dear colleagues,

The IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning 2025 will 
be held September 16–19, 2025 in Prague, Czechia.

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CfP IEEE ICDL 2025

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https://icdl2025.fel.cvut.cz/ <https://icdl2025.fel.cvut.cz/>

16–19 September 2025 in Prague; Czechia


2025 IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL)


We invite submissions to explore, extend, and consolidate the 
interdisciplinary boundaries of this exciting research field. In 
addition to the usual paper submission-selection process, we announce 
two Challenges: the BabyBot Challengethat will award computational 
models that capture core aspects of specific psychology experiments and 
(new!!) BabyObserve Challengethat will foster the community’s 
discoveries in research related to the development of cognition and 
learning and go beyond what is currently in focus. Submissions that 
address both challenges at the same time are also welcome.


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Important Deadlines

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Contributed papers (6–8 pages)—deadline: March 14, 2025.

Workshop and tutorial proposals—deadline: March 14, 2025.

Journal Track—deadline: April 1, 2025.

Late-breaking results (1-page abstracts)—deadline: June 13, 2025.


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Speakers

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Jeff Krichmar (University of California, Irvine, USA)

Masako Myowa-Yamakoshi (Kyoto University, Japan)

Giulio Sandini (IIT Genoa, Italy)

Tilbe Göksun (Koç University, Turkey)

Josef Šivic (CIIRC, CTU in Prague, Czechia)


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Topics

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ICDL is a unique conference gathering researchers from both 
computational science (including robotics, AI, cognitive architecture) 
and developmental studies (psychology, linguistics, anthropology, 
education, philosophy) for a fertile exchange sharing ideas, 
perspectives, knowledge, research findings on how humans and animals 
develop sensing, reasoning and actions, including interactive ecologies 
and how these capabilities can be implemented in computing (embodied) 
systems. This approach goes hand in hand with the goal of both 
understanding human and animal development and how this can be applied 
to improve future intelligent technology including all kinds of 
artificial systems that will be in close interaction with humans.


Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

– general principles and theories of development and learning;

– embodied learning in biological systems and robots;

– development of skills in biological systems and robots;

– developmental stages and sensitive periods;

– architectures for cognitive development and life-long learning;

– emergence of body knowledge and affordance perception;

– learning control of body movement;

– (models of) curiosity, intrinsic motivations, exploration, play and 
active learning;

– (models for) prediction, planning and problem solving;

– developmentally-inspired machine learning;

– applications of machine learning to human and animal development;

– emotional development and the role of emotion in learning;

– emergence of verbal and nonverbal communication;

– metacognitive skills and the role of metacognitive learning and 
explicit communication;

– (models of) human–human and human–system interaction;

– epistemological foundations and philosophical issues;

– the relationship between evolution and development;

– ethics in modeling learning and development.


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Submission

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We accept four types of research submissions.


Full 6-page paper submissions—deadline:March 14, 2025. Papers of at most 
6 pages in IEEE double column format will undergo peer-review, and 
accepted and presented submissions will be included in the conference 
proceedings published by IEEE Xplore. Up to two extra pages are 
acceptable for a publication fee of $100 per page. Accepted papers will 
be invited for presentation either in oral or poster format Please make 
use of the template provided at 
https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html 
<https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html>

Workshop and tutorial proposals—deadline:March 14, 2025.

Workshops proposals can be submitted for one-day or half-day-workshop 
that will take place on the first day of the conference. The proposals 
should motivate the topic and provide a schedule (topics covered by all 
speakers).


Journal-track posters—deadline:April 1, 2025. Journal track poster 
submissions must be about a journal paper that has been published the 
March 2024 – March 2025 period (online ahead of print is fine) on a 
topic relevant to the conference.


Late-breaking posters with 1-page abstract—deadline: June 13, 2025: To 
encourage discussion of late-breaking results or for work that is not 
sufficiently mature for a full paper, we will accept 1-page abstracts. 
These submissions will not be included in the conference proceedings. 
Accepted abstracts will be presented during the poster session.


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BabyBot Challenge Paper Award

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Babybot Challenge papers are expected to establish a strong link between 
developmental psychology and robotics and/or computational modeling. 
Submissions will be judged by the following criteria:

– How well does the computational model (e.g., an artificial system, 
which can be a robot, artificial system, or a software agent) represent 
the particular features of the experimental research addressed.

– How closely the performance of the model replicates the experimental 
findings and how parsimonious is the model.

– How explicit the model is about cognitive mechanisms and the

– The extent of the novel insights or explanations generated by the 
model, and importantly whether the model make interesting and testable 
predictions.

We encourage the authors to tag their submission for “Babybot Challenge” 
award during contributed paper submission, which would indicate that 
there is significant content that puts the paper in the spotlight of 
“Babybot Challenge”.


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BabyObserve Challenge Paper Award

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This Challenge is new, and its intention is to foster the community’s 
discoveries in research related to the development of cognition and 
learning that go beyond what is currently in focus.

BabyObserve Challenge papers are expected to introduce novel or “edge 
case” phenomena to the ICDL community from observations of child 
development, but also related mechanisms, interplays of skills, 
properties of (environmental and / or social) ecologies that promote it.


Observations can result in quantitative or qualitative research that is 
further described in the paper.

Submissions will be judged by the following criteria:

– How innovative is the phenomenon and why it is important for the ICDL 
community

– How well is the phenomenon described to inspire computational models

– How well is the phenomenon theoretically grounded or linked to the 
existing literature


We encourage the authors to tag their submission for “BabyObserve 
Challenge” award during contributed paper submission, which would 
indicate that there is significant content that puts the paper in the 
spotlight of “BabyObserve Challenge”.


General chair: Matej Hoffmann

Program chairs: Alessandra Sciutti, Emre Ugur, Katharina J. Rohlfing


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Best regards,

Matej Hoffmann,

IEEE ICDL 2025 General Chair

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-- 
Matej Hoffmann, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Cybernetics
Faculty of Electrical Engineering
Czech Technical University in Prague
Karlovo namesti 13
121 35 Praha 2, Czech Republic
+420 224 357 387
https://sites.google.com/site/matejhof/home
https://cyber.felk.cvut.cz/humanoids
https://icdl2025.fel.cvut.cz/
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