Project description Cognitive Systems, Interaction, RoboticsDeveloping new cognitive architectural principles to allow intelligent agents to learn socio-communicative skills by observing and imitating peopleAutomatic imitation learning of socio-communicative skills is an interesting research topic with significant potential benefits for future autonomous systems, robots and intelligent interfaces. HUMANOBS will develop new cognitive architectural principles that allow intelligent agents to learn socio-communicative skills by observing and imitating people. The resulting system will control a virtual humanoid television host, capable of conducting a simulated TV program and taking interviews with human users through speech and gesture (including face, body, arm and hand). The long-term framework is one in which humanoid agents and robots have autonomy for learning multimodal skills in dynamic social situations. Show the project objective Hide the project objective Human communicative skills rely on a complex mixture of social and spatio-temporal perception-action processes. Autonomous virtual agents that interact with people could benefit greatly from socio-communicative skills; endowing them with such skills, however, could mean decades of person-years in manual programming. Enabling the agents to learn these skills is an alternative solution the learning mechanisms for this, however, are also well beyond the state of the art. Our goal is to develop new cognitive architectural principles to allow intelligent agents to learn socio-communicative skills by observing and imitating people in dynamic social situations on the job. Skill development, in our approach, is a fundamental architectural feature: Learning happens through unique architectural constructs specified by developers, coupled with the ability of the architecture to automatically reconfigure itself to accommodate new skills through observation. As an appropriate and challenging demonstration the resulting system will control a virtual humanoid television host, capable of taking interviews with users and conducting a 10-minute TV program. By observing and imitating humans the TV-host will acquire increasingly complex socio-communicative skills; by the end of the project it will have reached socio-communicative skills comparable to an average human television show host. The agent's skills will be evaluated using a thorough, formal method. Fields of science natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesartificial intelligence Programme(s) FP7-ICT - Specific Programme "Cooperation": Information and communication technologies Topic(s) ICT-2007.2.2 - Cognitive systems, interaction, robotics Call for proposal FP7-ICT-2007-3 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme CP - Collaborative project (generic) Coordinator Contact Kristinn THORISSON Dr. Coordinator HASKOLINN I REYKJAVIK EHF EU contribution € 606 410,00 Address MENNTAVEGUR 1 102 REYKJAVIK Iceland See on map Region Ísland Ísland Höfuðborgarsvæði Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Bjorgvin Richardsson (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data Participants (6) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all SCUOLA UNIVERSITARIA PROFESSIONALE DELLA SVIZZERA ITALIANA Switzerland EU contribution € 236 138,00 Address STABILE LE GERRE 6928 Manno See on map Region Schweiz/Suisse/Svizzera Ticino Ticino Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Faustino Gomez (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data UNIVERSIDAD POLITECNICA DE MADRID Spain EU contribution € 328 313,00 Address CALLE RAMIRO DE MAEZTU 7 EDIFICIO RECTORADO 28040 Madrid See on map Region Comunidad de Madrid Comunidad de Madrid Madrid Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Ricardo Sanz (Prof.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data REYKJAVIK UNIVERSITY Participation ended Iceland EU contribution € 0,00 Address OFANLEITI 2 103 REYKJAVIK See on map Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Kristinn Thorisson (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI PALERMO Italy EU contribution € 305 663,00 Address PIAZZA MARINA 61 90133 Palermo See on map Region Isole Sicilia Palermo Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Ferdinando Di Siena (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DELLE RICERCHE Italy EU contribution € 349 013,00 Address PIAZZALE ALDO MORO 7 00185 Roma See on map Region Centro (IT) Lazio Roma Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact Rosario Falcone (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data COMMUNICATIVE MACHINES LIMITED United Kingdom EU contribution € 199 463,00 Address 482 LANARK ROAD WEST EH14 7AN EDINBURGH See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Thor List (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Total cost No data
