Connectionists: ICDL Confirmed Speakers – paper deadline Jan 8, poster deadline March 1

[nagai.yukie at mail.u-tokyo.ac.jp]

Dear colleagues, 

Join us in Austin May 20-23 2024 for the IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL). ICDL is an intimate and unique meeting gathering researchers interested in development from the perspective of ecological psychology, robotics, and computation. 

We have confirmed an amazing list of speakers for the event - including a keynote by Jitendra Malik, the research director for Facebook AI - as well as 20 of the most important thinkers in this space. Our goal is to encourage deep conversations through carefully curated single-track symposia, including: 

Curiosity-Driven Learning and Predictive Models
Yukie Nagai - The University of Tokyo, Japan
Elizabeth Bonawitz - Harvard University, USA
Gert Westermann - Lancaster University, UK
Michael Goldstein - Cornell University, USA

Language Development in Humans and Machines
Xavier Hinaut - Inria & Bordeaux University, France
Casey Lew-Williams - Princeton University, USA
Daniel Messinger - University of Miami, USA
Catherine Laing - University of York, UK

Developmental Machine Learning and Everyday Inputs
Karen Adolph - New York University, USA
Linda Smith - Indiana University, USA
Jochen Triesch - Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Germany
Marvin Lavechin - Ecole Normale Supérieure, France

Egocentric vision and attention
John Franchak - University of California, Riverside, USA
Kristen Grauman - The University of Texas at Austin, USA
Mary Hayhoe - The University of Texas at Austin, USA
Jim Rehg - University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA

Body Representation and Sensorimotor Organization
Daniela Corbetta - The University of Tennessee, USA
Matej Hoffmann - Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic
Hoshinori Kanazawa - The University of Tokyo, Japan
Peter Marshall - Temple University, USA

Website: https://la.utexas.edu/users/dil/ICDL_Austin_2024/
Deadline for full paper submissions extended: December 15, 2023, January 8, 2024
Deadline for 1-page poster abstracts and journal track poster submissions: March 1, 2024

Full papers and other submissions are invited on a range of topics including but not limited to:
• Embodied learning and development in biological systems and robots
• Developmental stages and sensitive periods
• Emergence of verbal and nonverbal communication
• Curiosity, intrinsic motivations, exploration, play and active learning
• Architectures for lifelong learning
• Emergence of body and affordance perception
• Learning control of body movement
• Emotional development and the role of emotion in learning
• Prediction, planning, and problem solving
• The relationship between evolution and development
• Epistemological foundations and philosophical issues
• Robotic and computational models of human and animal development
• Developmentally-inspired machine learning
• Human-robot interaction in developmental contexts
• Applications of machine learning to human and animal development

Submissions may take the form of full (6-page) papers, 1-page poster abstracts, journal track posters, and workshops or tutorials. Please see below for details on each submission type. Decisions regarding acceptance will be based on technical quality, novelty, and expected interest to the conference’s interdisciplinary audience.
In addition to talks and posters originating from these submissions, the conference will feature a keynote speaker as well as several invited symposia showcasing recent research on a set of themes, with different disciplines and perspectives featured, to prompt lively and productive discussion at the conference.

Submission types:

Full six-page paper submissions
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

1-page poster abstracts
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.

Journal-track posters
Journal track poster submissions must be about a journal paper that has been published recently (no earlier than December 2022), on a topic relevant to ICDL.

Best regards,
Yukie Nagai, on  behalf of the organizing committees

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Yukie Nagai, Ph.D.
Project Professor, The University of Tokyo
nagai.yukie at mail.u-tokyo.ac.jp | https://developmental-robotics.jp
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