Towards language acquisition by an attention-sharing robot

  • Authors:

  • Hideki Kozima;Akira Ito

  • Affiliations:

  • Communications Research Laboratory, Iwaoka, Nishi-ku, Kobe, Japan;Communications Research Laboratory, Iwaoka, Nishi-ku, Kobe, Japan

  • Venue:
  • NeMLaP3/CoNLL '98 Proceedings of the Joint Conferences on New Methods in Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning
  • Year:
  • 1998

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Abstract

This paper describes our preliminary research on "attention-sharing" in infants' language acquisition. Attention-sharing is the activity of paying one's attention to someone else's attentional target. This enables one to observe others' sensory-input (what they are perceiving from the target) and motor-output (what they are doing in response to the target). Being inspired by lack of attention-sharing in autistic children, we assumed that observation of others' behavior by attention-sharing plays an indispensable role in symbol acquisition. As a test-bed for attention-sharing, we are developing a robot that can follow people's attentional targets by means of monitoring their gaze-direction.