07. Publications

• Road Map
• Journals
• Conference Papers
• Conference abstracts and Posters
• Book Chapters
• Submitted Papers
• Others

Road Map

• A Road Map paper for the development of new theoretical concepts and methods for the study and design of linguistic communication and action language integration in robots (updated March 2010)

journals (40)

• Zeschel A. & Tuci E. (2011). From symbol grounding to socially shared embodied language knowledge. Frontiers in Neurorobotics, IEEE ICDL-EPIROB 2011.
• Mohan V., Morasso P., Zenzeri J., Metta G., Chakravarthy V.S. & Sandini G. (2011). Teaching a humanoid robot to draw “Shapes”. Autonomous Robots, 31(1), pp. 21-53.
• Mohan V., Morasso P., Metta G. & Kasderidis S. (2011). The distribution of rewards in growing sensorimotor maps. Neurocomputing. Elsevier Science Publishers.
• Mohan V., Morasso P. & Metta G. (2011). What does learning to draw a circle have to do with driving, cycling, unwinding and screwing? Frontiers in Neurobotics.
• Borghi A.M., Flumini A., Cimatti F., Marocco D. & Scorolli C. (2011). Manipulating objects and telling words: a study on concrete and abstract words acquisition. Frontiers in Psychology, 2, pp.1-14.
• Tikhanoff V., Cangelosi A. & Metta G. (2011). Language understanding in humanoid robots: iCub simulation experiments. IEEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development, 3(1), 17-29.
• Fontanari J. F. & Cangelosi A. (2011). Cross-situational and supervised learning in the emergence of communication. Interaction Studies, 12(1), 119-133.
• Cangelosi A. (in press). Solutions and open challenges for the symbol grounding problem. International Journal of Signs and Semiotic Systems (with commentaries).
• Uno R., Marocco D., Nolfi S. & Ikegami T., (2011). Emergence of proto-sentences in artificial communicating systems. IEEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development, 99.
• Hinoshita W., Arie H., Tani J., Okuno H.G. & Ogata T. (2011). Emergence of hierarchical structure mirroring linguistic composition in a recurrent neural network. Neural Networks, 24, pp. 311-320.
• Pezzulo G., Barsalou L.W., Cangelosi A., Fischer M.H., McRae K. & Spivey M.J. (2011). The mechanics of embodiment: a dialog on embodiment and computational modelling. Frontiers in Psychology, 2(5), pp. 1-21.
• Fischer K., Kilian F., Rohlfing K. & Wrede B. (2011). Mindful Tutors: Linguistic Choice and Action Demonstration in Speech to Infants and Robots. Interaction Studies, 12(1), pp. 134-161.
• Cangelosi A. (2010). The symbol grounding problems has been solved: Or maybe not? Autonomous Mental Development Newsletter, 7(1), pp. 2-10.
• Morse A. F., De Greeff J., Belpaeme T. & Cangelosi A. (2010). Epigenetic Robotics Architecture (ERA). IEEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development , 2(4), pp. 325-339.
• Fischer K. (in press). Beyond the Sentence: Constructions, Frames and Spoken Interaction. Journal Constructions and Frames, 2(2), pp. 1-28.
• Fischer K. (2010). Why it is interesting to investigate how people talk to computers and robots: Introduction to the special issue. Journal of Pragmatics, 42, pp. 2349-2354.
• Cangelosi A., Metta G., Sagerer G., Nolfi S., Nehaniv C. L., Fischer K., Tani J., Belpaeme T., Sandini G., Fadiga L., Wrede B., Rohlfing K., Tuci E., Dautenhahn K., Saunders J. & Zeschel A. (2010). Integration of action and language knowledge: A roadmap for developmental robotics. IEEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development , 2(3), 167-195.
• Cangelosi A. (in press). Grounding Language in Action and Perception: From Cognitive Agents to Humanoid Robots. Physics of Life Reviews, 7(2), 139-151.
• Ziemke T., Lowe R. & Morse A. F. (2010). Affective Robotics - Modelling Emotion and Motivation. Connection Science, 42(3), pp.193-195.
• Parthemore J. & Morse A. F. (2010). Representations reclaimed. Accounting for co-emergence of concepts and experience. Pragmatics & Cognition, 18(2), 273-312.
• Belpaeme T. & Morse A. (2010). Time will tell - why it is too early to worry. Interaction Studies, 11(2), pp. 191-195. Commentary to N.Sharkey & A.Sharkey. The crying shame of robot nannies: an ethical appraisal.
• Marocco D., Cangelosi A., Belpaeme T. & Fischer K. (2010). Grounding action words in the sensory-motor interaction with the world: Experiments with the iCub humanoid robot. Frontiers in Neurorobotics. 4(7).
• Namikawa J. & Tani J. (2010). Learning to imitate stochastic time series in a compositional way by chaos. Neural Networks, 23, pp. 625-638.
• Massera G., Tuci E., Ferrauto T. & Nolfi S. (2010). The Facilitatory Role of Linguistic Instructions on Developing Manipulation Skills. IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine, 5(3), pp. 33-42.
• Parisi D. (2010). Robots with language. Frontiers in Neurorobotics, 4 (10).
• Tuci E., Ferrauto T., Zeschel A., Massera G. & Nolfi S. (2010). An Experiment on the Evolution of Compositional Semantics and Behaviour Generalisation in Artificial Agents. IEEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development Journal.
• Tuci E., Massera G. & Nolfi S. (2010). Active categorical perception of object shapes in a simulated anthropomorphic robotic arm. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, 14(6).
• Mirolli M., Ferrauto T. & Nolfi S. (2010). Categorisation through Evidence Accumulation in an Active Vision System. Connection Science, 22(4), pp. 331-354.
• Schillingmann L., Wrede B. & Rohlfing K. J. (2009). A computational model of acoustic packaging. IEEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development, 1, pp. 226–237.
• Rolf M., Hanheide M. & Rohlfing, K.J. (2009). Attention via synchrony. Making use of multimodal cues in social learning. IEEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development, 1, pp. 55–67.
• Lyon C., Sato Y., Saunders J. & Nehaniv C. L. (2009). What is Needed for a Robot to Acquire Grammar? Some Underlying Primitive Mechanisms for the Synthesis of Linguistic Ability. IEEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development. 1(3), pp. 187 - 195.
• Nagai Y. & Rohlfing K. (2009). Computational Analysis of Motionese Toward Scaffolding Robot Action Learning. IEEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development. 1 (1), pp. 44-54.
• Fontanari J.F., Tikhanoff V., Cangelosi A., Ilinc R. & Perlovsky L. (2009). Cross-situational learning of object-word mapping using Neural Modeling Fields. Neural Networks. 22, pp. 579-585.
• Borisyuk R., Kazanovich Y., Chik D., Tikhanoff V. & Cangelosi A. (2009). A neural model of selective attention and object segmentation in the visual scene: An approach based on partial synchronization and star-like architecture of connections. Neural Networks. 22, pp. 707-719.
• Lohse M., Hanheide M., Pitsch K., Rohlfing K.J. & Sagerer G. (2009). Improving HRI design applying Systemic Interaction Analysis (SInA). Interaction Studies. 10 (3), pp. 298-323.
• Mohan. V., Morasso P., Metta G. & Sandini,G. (2009). A biomimetic, force-field based computational model for motion planning and bimanual coordination in humanoid robots. Autonomous Robots. 27 (3), pp. 291-301.
• Arie H., Endo T., Arakaki T., Sugano S. & Tani J. (2009). Creating novel goal-directed actions at criticality: a neuro-robotic experiment. New Mathematics and Natural Computation. 5 (1), pp. 307-334.
• Nishimoto R. & Tani J. (2009). Development process of functional hierarchy for actions and motor imagery: a constructivist view from synthetic neuro-robotics study. Psychological Research.
• Zeschel A. (2008). Lexical chunking effects in syntactic processing. Cognitive Linguistics. 19 (3), pp. 419-438.
• Zeschel A. (2008). Introduction: Usage-based approaches to language processing and representation. Cognitive Linguistics. 19(3), pp. 349-55
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conference papers (58)

• Peniak M., Morse A., Larcombe C., Ramirez-Contla S. & Cangelosi A. (2011). Aquila: An Open-Source GPU-Accelerated Toolkit for Cognitive and Neuro-Robotics Research. International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) 2011. San Jose, California, July 31 - August 5.
• Lohan K., Pitsch K., Rohlfing K., Fischer K., Lehman H., Saunders J., Nehaniv C. & Wrede B. (2011). Contigency Allows the Robot to Spot the Tutor and to Learn from Interaction. Proceedings of ICDL-Epirob 2011, Frankfurt, 24-27 August.
• Fischer K., Foth K., Rohlfing K. & Wrede B. 2011. Is Talking to a Simulated Robot like Talking to a Child? Proceedings of ICDL-Epiro 2011, Frankfurt, Germany, 24-27 August.
• Sato Y., Lyon C., Lehmann H. & Nehaniv C. (2011). Discovery of words through babbling of syllables. From sounds to words: Modelling cognitive architecture for the speech sound acquisition, special session. Proceedings of ICDL-Epirob 2011, Frankfurt, Germany 24-27 August .
• Saunders J., Lehman H., Sato Y. & Nehaniv C.L. (2011). Towards Using Prosody to Scaffold Lexical Meaning in Robots. From sounds to words: Modelling cognitive architecture for the speech sound acquisition, special session. Proceedings of ICDL-Epirob 2011, Frankfurt, Germany 24-27 August.
• Gijsberts A. & Metta G. (2011). Incremental Learning of Robot Dynamics using Random Features. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, May 9-13, Shanghai, China, pp.951-956.
• Sato Y. (2011). Simulated learning of phonotactics via syllabification. The 19th Manchester Phonology Meeting, May.
• Cangelosi A. (in press). Cognitive modeling with multi-agent systems. In Seel N.M. (Ed.), Encyclopaedia of the Sciences of Learning. Springer.
• Metta G. & Cangelosi A. (in press). Cognitive robotics. In Seel N.M. (Ed.), Encyclopaedia of the Sciences of Learning. Springer.
• Fischer K. (2011). Interpersonal Variation in Understanding Robots as Social Actors. HRI 2011, Lausanne, Switzerland, March 6-9.
• Sato Y., Broz F. & Nehaniv C. L. (2011). Computational simulation of syllabification and syllable based word-discovery. Accepted at the International Child Phonology Conference, York, 16-17 June.
• Ze J., Sato Y. & Nehaniv C. L. (2011). Simulated model of acoustic-based phonological bootstrapping. Accepted at the International Child Phonology Conference, York, 16-17 June.
• A. Rothwell, Lyon C., Nehaniv C.L. & Saunders J. (2011). From babbling towards first words: the emergence of speech in a robot in real-time interaction. IEEE Symposium on Artificial Life (in press), April 2011.
• Broz F., Kose-Bagci H., Nehaniv C.L. & Dautenhahn K. (2011). Towards Automated Human-Robot Mutual Gaze. Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Advances in Computer-Human Interactions (ACHI 2011), February 23-28, Gosier, Guadeloupe, France.
• Broz F., Lehmann H., Nehaniv C.L. & Dautenhahn K. (2011). Automated Analysis of Mutual Gaze in Human Conversational Pairs. 2nd Workshop on Eye Gaze in Intelligent Human Machine Interaction. Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, USA, 13 February, held at International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2011).
• Tuci E., Ferrauto T., Massera G. & Nolfi S. (2010). The Evolution of behavioural and linguistic skills to execute and generate two-word instructions in agents controlled by dynamical neutral networks. Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems (ALife XII). In Fellermann H., Dorr M., Hanczyc M., Ladegaard Laursen L., Maurer S., Merkle D., Monnard P.-A., Stoy K. & Rasmussen S. (Ed.) , MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, pp. 591-598.
• Tuci E., Ferrauto T., Massera G. & Nolfi S. (2010). Co-development of linguistic and behavioural skills: compositional semantics and behaviour generalisation. Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB2010). In Doncieux S., Girard B., Guillot A., Hallam J., Meyer J-A., Mouret J-B. (Ed.), LNCS, Springer Heidelberg, pp. 523-532.
• Morlino G., Gianelli C., Borghi A.M. & Nolfi S. (2010). Developing the Ability to Manipulate Objects: A Comparative Study with Humans and Artificial Agents. In Johansson B., Sahin E., Balkenius C. (Ed.), Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Epigenetic Robotics, Lund University Cognitive Studies, pp. 169-170.
• Lyon C., Nehaniv C. L. & Saunders J. (2010). Preparing to Talk: Interaction between a Linguistically Enabled Agent and a Human Teacher. AAAI Fall Symposium, AAAI Press,Westin Arlington Gateway in Arlington, VA, November 11–13.
• Gijsberts A. & Metta G. (2011). Incremental Learning of Robot Dynamics using Random Features. Accepted in: IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2011), Shanghai, China, May 9-13.
• Mohan V., Metta G., Zenzeri J., Morasso P. & Sandini G. (2010). Learning to draw after observing a teacher: iCub’s scribbles and shapes. Proceedings of 9th Annual symposium on Advances in Computational motor control, Todorov, San Diego, CA, November 12.
• Broz F., Kose-Bagci H., Nehaniv C.L. & Dautenhahn K. (2010). Investigating Mutual Gaze. Tenth International Conference on Epigenetic Robotics, Örenäs Slott, Sweden, November, 5-7.
• Gijsberts A., Tommasi T., Metta G. & Caputo B. (2010). Object Recognition using Visuo-Affordance Maps, 2010 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Taipei, Taiwan, October 18-22.
• Förster F. & Nehaniv C. L. (2010). Semiotics as Theoretical Underpinning for Language Acquisition in Developmental Robotics, ECAP10, VIII European Conference on Computing and Philosophy, Munich, Germany, October 4-6.
• Mohan V., Metta G., Zenzeri J. & Morasso P. (2010). Teaching humanoids to imitate ‘Shapes’ of movements. Proceedings of 20th International conference on Artificial neural networks ICANN 2010, Springer Academic Publishers, Thessaloniki, Greece, September 15-18.
• Morse A.F., Belpaeme T., Cangelosi A. & Smith L.B. (2010). Thinking With Your Body: Modelling Spatial Biases in Categorization Using a Real Humanoid Robot. In S. Ohlsson & R. Catrambone (Eds.). Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1362-1367), Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
• Vollmer A.-L., Pitsch K., Lohan K. S., Fritsch J., Rohlfing K. & Wrede B. (2010). Developing feedback: how children of different age contribute to an interaction with adults. 2010 IEEE 9th International Conference on Development and Learning, Ann Arbor, Michigan, August, 18-21.
• Sato Y., Saunders J., Lyon C., Broz F. & Nehaniv C. L. (2010). An integrated three-stage model for grammar acquisition. Proceedings of ICDL 2010 IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, Ann Arbor, Michigan, August 18-21.
• Mohan V., Morasso P., Metta G., Zenzeri J. & Sandini G. (2010). Teaching baby humanoid iCub to write 'iCub' and beyond. Fourth International Conference on Cognitive Science, pp.1-3, Tomsk, Russia, 22-26 June.
• Pitsch K. & Koch B. (2010). How infants perceive the toy robot Pleo. An exploratory case study on infant-robot-interaction. Second International Symposium on New Frontiers in Human-Robot-Interaction (AISB), Leicester, UK, 31 March.
• Pitsch K., Brüning B., Schnier C., Dierker H. & Wachsmuth S. (2010). Linking Conversation Analysis and Motion Capturing: How to robustly track multiple participants? Multimodal Corpora: Advances in Capturing, Coding and Analyzing Multimodality (LREC), Malta.
• Tikhanoff V., Cangelosi A. & Metta, G. (2010). Integration of Speech and Action in Humanoid Robots: iCub Simulation Experiments.Proceedings of International Conference on Knowledge Intensive Multi-Agent Systems (KMAS-09), St Louis, October 2009.
• Sato Y. & Saunders J. (2010). Semantic bootstrapping in embodied robots. Proceedings of Evolang 8. 15 April (in press).
• Saunders J., Nehaniv C. L. & Lyon C. (2010). Robot learning of lexical semantics from sensorimotor interaction and the unrestricted speech of human tutors. Second International Symposium on New Frontiers in Human-Robot Interaction, AISB Convention 2010, 31 March 2010-1 April 2010, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. Published by SSAISB, pp. 95-102.
• Kose-Bagci H., Broz F., Shen Q., Dautenhahn K. & Nehaniv C. L. (2010). As Time Goes by: Representing and Reasoning About Timing in Human-Robot Interaction Studies. Proceedings of AAAI Spring Symposium 2010. It's All in the Timing: Representing and Reasoning about Time in Interactive Behavior, Stanford University, CA, USA, AAAI Press (in press).
• Morlino G., Sterbini A. & Nolfi S. (2009). Development of Abstract Categories in Embodied Agents. Proceedings of the 10th European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL 2009), vol. LNCS/LNAI 5777, 5778.
• Förster F. & Nehaniv C. L. (2010). Representations of Time in Symbol Grounding Systems. AAAI 2010 Spring Symposium. It's All in the Timing: Representing and Reasoning about Time in Interactive Behavior, Stanford University,California, 22-24 March 2010, AAAI Press (in press).
• Förster F., Nehaniv C. L. & Saunders J. (2009). Robots that Say 'No'. Proceeding of European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL 2009). Budapest, Hungary, 13-16 September (in press).
• Arie H., Endo T., Arakaki T., Sugano S. & Tani J. (2009). A neuro-dynamical model for understanding mechanisms of goal-directed action imitation. Proceeding of 3rd International Symposium on Mobiligence. Awaji, Japan, pp.46-51.
• Schillingmann L., Wrede B. & Rohlfing K. (2009). Towards a Computational Model of Acoustic Packaging. Best paper award 2009. Proceeding of International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL).
• Vollmer A. L., Lohan K. S., Fischer K., Nagai Y., Pitsch K., Fritsch J., Rohlfing K. J. & Wrede B. (2009). People modify their tutoring behaviour in Robot-Directed Interaction for Action Learning. 2009 IEEE 8th International Conference on Development and Learning, pp. 1-6, Shanghai, China, 5-7 June.
• Pitsch K., Vollmer A. L., Fritsch J., Wrede B., Rohlfing K. J. & Sagerer G. (2009). On the loop of action modification and the recipient's gaze in adult-child interaction. In: GESPIN (Gesture and Speech in Interaction) 2009. Poznan, Poland.
• Pitsch K., Kuzuoka H., Suzuki Y., Süssenbach L., Luff P. & Heath C. (2009). The first five seconds: Contingent stepwise entry into an interaction as a means to secure sustained engagement. In: ROMAN (IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication) 2009. Toyama, Japan.
• Schillingmann L., Wrede B., Rohlfing K., Fischer K. (2009). The Structure of Robot Directed Interaction compared to Adult and Infant Directed Interaction using a Model for Acoustic Packaging. IEEE RO-MAN (Dialogue and human-robot-interaction).
• Lohan K. S., Vollmer A. L., Fritsch J., Rohlfing K. & Wrede B. (2009). Which ostensive stimuli can be used for a robot to detect and maintain tutoring situations?. ACII Workshop.
• Fontanari J.F., Tikhanoff V., Cangelosi A. & Perlovsky L. (2009). A cross-situational algorithm for learning a lexicon using neural modeling fields. IJCNN International Joint Conference on Neural Networks. Atlanta, June 2009.
• Mohan V., Zenzeri. J, Morasso P. & Metta G. (2009). Composing and coordinating body models of arbitrary complexity and redundancy: A biomimetic field computing approach. Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent RObots and Systems (IROS). St. Louis, MO, USA October 11 – 15.
• Nori F., Sandini G. & Konczak J. (2009). Can imprecise internal motor models explain the ataxic hand trajectories during reaching in young infants? Ninth International Conference on Epigenetic Robotics: Modeling Cognitive Development in Robotic Systems.
• Ferrauto T., Tuci E., Mirolli M., Massera G. & Nolfi S. (2009). Two Examples of Active Categorisation Processes Distributed Over Time. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Epigenetic Robotics (EPIROB 2009). L. Caňamero, P.-Y.Oudeyer, and Balkenius C. (Eds). Lund University Cognitive Studies, pp. 49-56.
•  Tuci E., Massera G. & Nolfi S. (2009). On the dynamics of active categorisation of different objects shape through tactile sensors. Proceedings of the 10th European Conference of Artificial Life (ECAL 2009).
• Tuci E., Massera G. & Nolfi S. (2009). Active categorical perception in an evolved anthropomorphic robotic arm. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Evolutionary Computation (CEC), special session on Evolutionary Robotics. Trondheim, Norway, May 18-21.
• C. Lyon & J. Saunders (2009). Investigating the basis for conversation between human and robot. EpiRob Conference. Venice, November. Edited by L.Canamero, P-Y. Oudeyer and C. Balkenius, Lund University Cognitive Studies. 146, pp. 223-224.
• Tikhanoff V., Cangelosi A., Fitzpatrick P., Metta G., Natale L. &  Nori F. (2008). An open-source simulator for cognitive robotics research: The prototype of the iCub humanoid robot simulator. R. Madhavan & E.R. Messina (Eds.), Proceedings of IEEE Workshop on Performance Metrics for Intelligent Systems Workshop (PerMIS’08). Washington, D.C.
• Tikhanoff V., Fitzpatrick P., Nori F., Natale L., Metta G. & Cangelosi A. (2008). The iCub humanoid robot simulator. Proceedings of IEEE/RSJ 2008 International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS2008). Nice, 22-26 September 2008.  
• Saunders J., Nehaniv C.L. & Dautenhahn K. (2008). What is an Appropriate Theory of Imitation for a Robot Learner? Lab-rs 08, ECSIS Symposium on Learning and Adaptive Behaviors for Robotic Systems. 6-8 August. Published by IEEE, pp. 9-14.
• Saunders J., Lyon C. , Förster F., Nehaniv C.L. & Dautenhahn K. 2009). A Constructivist Approach to Robot Language Learning via Simulated Babbling and Holophrase Extraction. Proceedings of 2nd International IEEE Symposium on Artificial Life (IEEE ALife 09). Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
• Kempson R., Gregoromichelaki E. & Sato Y. (2009). Incrementality, Speaker-Hearer Switching and the Disambiguation Challenge. EACL Workshop on the Semantic Representation of Spoken Language. Athens, Greece,
  Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 74-81, 2009.
• Metta G. (2009). Towards addressing large scale regression problems using a streaming approximate SVM. Workshop on Approaches to Sensorimotor Learning on Humanoid Robots. ICRA 2009 Kobe. Japan. May 12-17. (download abstract as pdf).
• De Greeff J., Delaunay F. & Belpaeme T. (2009). Human-Robot Interaction in Concept Acquisition: a computational model. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning. Shangai, China.
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conference abstracts and posters (26)

• Peniak M., Marocco D., Tani J., Yamashita Y., Fischer K. & Cangelosi A. (2011). Multiple Time Scales Recurrent Neural Network for Complex Action Acquisition. Proceedings of ICDL-Epirob 2011, Frankfurt, 24-27 August.
• Sato Y., Ze Ji & Nehaniv C. (2011). How much raw sounds can do for word learning. Learning by ‘repeating’ in a human-robot interaction. Proceedings of ICDL-Epirob 2011, Frankfurt, 24-27 August.
• Morlino G., Griffiths S.S, Schillingmann L., Nolfi S., Wrede B. & Rohlfing K. (2011). Human and Artificial Agents Learning Categories in Interaction. 15th International Conference on Cognitive and Neural Systems (ICCNS), Boston, May 11 – 14.
• Peniak M., Morse A., Larcombe C., Ramirez-Contla S. & Cangelosi A. (2011). Aquila: Massively Parallelised Developmental Robotics Framework, In Proceedings of the Postgraduate Conference for Computing: Applications and Theory, Exeter.
• Sciutti A., Nori F., Jacono M., Metta G., Sandini G. & Fadiga L. (2011). Proactive Gaze Behavior: Which Observed Action Features Do Influence The Way We Move Our Eyes? Accepted for VSS Conference, Naples, FLA (USA), May, 2011 & to be published as abstract on Journal of Vision, vol. 11.
• Pitsch K., Vollmer A.-L., Mühlig M., Fritsch J., Steil J., Rohlfing K. & Wrede B. (2011). Social Learning. In der Mensch-Roboter-Interaktion: Zur Eröffnung eines neuen Forschungsfelds für die Konversationsanalyse. March 30-April 1, Arbeitstagung zur Gesprächsforschung, Mannheim, Germany.
• Kerstin F. (2010). The Need for Interactional Scenarios in Grounded Language Learning. Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Epigenetic Robotics, Örenäs Slott, Sweden, November, 5-7.
• Broz F., Kose-Bagci H., Nehaniv C.L. & Dautenhahn K. (2010). Investigating Mutual Gaze. Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Epigenetic Robotics, Örenäs Slott, Sweden, November, 5-7.
• Ramirez-Contla S., Marocco D. & Cangelosi A. (2010). Active Vision and Depth Estimation Toward a Peripersonal Space Encoding in a Humanoid Robot. Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Epigenetic Robotics, Lund University Cognitive Studies, pp. 175-176, Örenäs Slott, Sweden, November, 5-7.
• Di Nuovo A.G., Marocco D., Di Nuovo S. & Cangelosi A. (2010). Estimating Spatial Position from Proprioceptive and Visual information: A Cognitive Robotics Model. Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Epigenetic Robotics, Örenäs Slott, Sweden, November, 5-7.
• Pitsch K., Vollmer A.-L., Rohlfing K. & Wrede B. (2010). Action modification in adult-child-interaction: On the interplay of gesture, interaction and cognition. Gesture, Evolution, Brain and Linguistic Structures (ISGS10), Frankfurt-Oder, July 25-30.
• Vollmer A.-L., Lohan K., Fritsch J., Wrede B. & Rohling K.-J. (2009). Which Motionese Parameters Change with Children's Age? Cognitive Development Society. VI Biennial Meeting.
• Morse, A. F., Belpaeme, T., & Cangelosi, A. (in press). Robotic models of spatial biases in categorization. NCPW12, the 12th Neural Computation and Psychology Workshop. London, April 2010.
• Marocco D. & Cangelosi A. (in press). Grounding words in actions: Experiments with the iCub humanoid robot. Fourteenth International Conference on Cognitive and Neural Systems. Boston, May 19–22.
• Cangelosi A. and ITALK team (2010). Integration and Transfer of Action and Language Knowledge in Robots. CogSys 2010 - 4th International Conference on Cognitive Systems. Zurich, January 2010.
• Rolf, M., Hanheide, M. & Rohlfing, K.J. (2009). The use of synchrony in parent-child interaction can be measured on a signal level. Meeting of the Society of Research in Child Development. Denver USA, 2–4 April.
• Schillingmann L., Wrede B. & Rohlfin K. (2009). Acoustic Packaging. The international workshop for young robotics researchers. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Boston, USA.
• Lohan K., Wrede B. & Rohlfing K. (2009). Analyzing Contingency in Tutoring Situations. The international workshop for young robotics researchers. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Boston, USA.
• Sciutti A., Nori F., Metta G., Pozzo T. & G. Sandini (2009). Internal models in two-dimensional target motion prediction and interception. Journal of Vision 9 (VSS Abstract supplement), p.1141a.
• Sciutti A., Nori F., Metta G., Pozzo T. & G. Sandini (2009). Learning to intercept targets driven by force fields: effects of modulus and orientation variability. Perception 38 (ECVP Abstract Supplement). Pion (ed.), p. 141.
• C. Lyon and J. Saunders (2009). Investigating the basis for conversation between human and robot. EpiRob Conference. Venice, November.
• Cangelosi A., Belpaeme T., Sandini G., Metta G., Fadiga L., Sagerer G., Rohlfing K., Wrede B., Nolfi S., Parisi D., Nehaniv C., Dautenhahn K., Saunders J., Fischer K., Tani J.  & Roy D. (2008). The ITALK project: Integration and transfer of action and language knowledge. Proceedings of Third ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction (HRI 2008). Amsterdam, 12-15 March 2008.  
• Cangelosi A., Belpaeme T., Sandini G., Metta G., Fadiga L., Sagerer G., Rohlfing K., Wrede B., Nolfi S., Parisi D., Marocco D., Nehaniv C., Dautenhahn K., Saunders J., Fischer K.  & Tani J. (2008). The ITALK project: Integration and transfer of action and language knowledge in robots. Proceedings of CogSys2008: International Conference on Cognitive Systems. Karlsruhe, 1-4 April 2008.  
• Tikhanoff V., Cangelosi A., Tani J. & Metta G. (2008). Towards language acquisition in autonomous robots. Proceedings of ALIFE XI, Winchester.
• Belpaeme  T. (2008). All talk and action: how language and action impact on artificial cognition. Rohlfing, K. (Ed.) Intermodal Action Structuring. Bielefeld, Germany, 2008.
• Pitsch K. & Rohlfing K. (2008). On the interactional organisation of imitating actions: How young children learn to manipulate objects in social situations. International Conference on Multimodality and Learning: New Perspectives on Knowledge. London, 2008.
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book chapters (15)

• Cangelosi A. (in press). Robotics and embodied agents modelling of the evolution of language. In: M. Tallerman (Ed.). Oxford Handbook of Language Evolution, Oxford University Press.
• Rohlfing K. J. (2011). Meaning in the objects. In: J. Meibauer & M. Steinbach (Ed.). Experimental Pragmatics/Semantics. Amsterdam, Benjamins, pp. 151-176.
• Mohan. V., Zenzeri, J., Metta, G., Morasso, P. (2010). In humanoid robots, as in humans, bipedal standing should come before bipedal walking: implementing the Functional Reach Test. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering. Springer, Berlin/Heidelberg.
• Rohlfing, K. J. (to appear): Meaning in the objects. In: J. Meibauer & M. Steinbach (Hgg.). Experimental Pragmatics/Semantics. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
• Nolfi S., Mirolli M. (2010). Evolving communication in embodied agents: Assessment and open challenges. In Nolfi S. & Mirolli M. (Eds.). Evolution of Communication and Language in Embodied Agents. Berlin, Springer Verlag.
• Mirolli M., Nolfi S. (2010). Evolving communication in embodied agents: Theory, methods, and evaluation. In Nolfi S. & Mirolli M. (Eds.). Evolution of Communication and Language in Embodied Agents. Berlin, Springer Verlag.
• Rohlfing K. J. (to appear). Meaning in the objects. In: J. Meibauer & M. Steinbach (Eds). Experimental Pragmatics/Semantics. Amsterdam: Benjamins. (download abstract as pdf).
• Fumagalli M., Gijsberts A., Ivaldi S., Jamone L., Metta G., Natale L. & Nori F. (2010). Learning To Exploit Proximal Force Sensing: a Comparison Approach. In: O. Sigaud & J. Peters (Eds). From Motor to Interaction Learning in Robots. 264, pp. 159-177.
• Nolfi S. (2009). Behavior and cognition as a complex adaptive system: Insights from robotic experiments. In Hooker C. (Ed.). Handbook of the Philosophy of Science. Vol. 10: Philosophy of Complex Systems. General Editors: Dov M. Gabbay, Paul Thagard & John Woods. Elsevier.
• Mohan. V., Morasso P., Metta G. & Kasderidis S. (2009). Actions & Imagined Actions in Cognitive Robots. To appear in: Perception-Reason-Action cycle: Models, algorithms and systems. J.G.Taylor, V. Cutsuridis, N. Tishby, A. Hussain (Eds). Springer USA, Series in Cognitive and Neural Systems. pp. 1-32.
• Courtney P., Michel O., Cangelosi A., Tikhanoff V., Metta G., Natale L., Nori F. & Kernbach S. (2009). Cognitive Systems Platforms using Open Source. Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking of Intelligent Systems. Hardcover (Ed). pp.139-160.
• Fumagalli M., Gijsberts A., Ivaldi S., Jamone L., Metta G., Natale L., Nori F. & Sandini G. (2010). Learning to Exploit Proximal Force Sensing: a Comparison Approach. From Motor Learning to Interaction Learning in Robots.
• Fischer K. (2008). Die Interaktion zwischen Konstruktionsgrammatik und Kontextwissen am Beispiel des Satzmodus in Instruktionsdialogen. In: Anatol Stefanowitsch and Kerstin Fischer (eds.). Konstruktionsgrammatik II: Von der Konstruktion zur Theorie. Tübingen: Stauffenburg. (download abstract as pdf).
• Zeschel A. (to appear). What's (in) a construction? Non-predictability vs. entrenchment as criterial attributes. Vyvyan Evans and Stephanie Pourcel, (Eds.),  New Directions in Cognitive Linguistics. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. (download abstract as pdf).
• Nori F., Metta G. & Sandini G. (2008) . Exploiting motor modules in modular contexts. Robust intelligent systems. Schuster, Alfons (ed.) 2008, XII, 299 p. 81 Illus., Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-84800-260-9. (download abstract as pdf).
• Courtney P., Michel O., Cangelosi A., Tikhanoff V., Metta G., Natale L., Nori F. & Serge Kernbach (2008). Cognitive Systems Platforms using Open Source. R. Madhavan, E. Tunstel, and E. Messina (Eds.), Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking of Intelligent Systems. Springer. (dowload abstract as pdf)
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Submitted papers (3)

• Sciutti A., Nori F., Jacono M., Metta G., Sandini G. & Fadiga L. (2011). Human and robotic goal oriented actions evoke motor resonance - a gaze behavior study. (submitted)
• Fumagalli M., Ivaldi S., Nori F., Metta G. & Sandini, G. (2011). Computing robot internal/external wrenches by means of F/T sensors: theory and implementation on the iCub humanoid (submitted).
• Zeschel A. (2010). Basic argument structure constructions in child-directed speech (submitted in Y2).
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others (2)

• Anton Rothwell, Real-time phoneme recognition for use in robot language Acquisition. MSc thesis, Sept 2010, University of Hertfordshire.
• Filip Mysliwiec, Detecting reinforcement and attention signals by extracting and classifying prosodic features of speech made by humans interacting with a humanoid robot. Msc Thesis, Sept 2010, University of Hertfordshire.
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