A Developmental Approach Accelerates Learning of Joint Attention

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  • ICDL '02 Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Development and Learning
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  • 2002

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Abstract

This paper argues how robot learning can be accelerated by a developmental approach that changes the capabilityof the learning robot (robot development) and/or thecomplexity oftheenvironment (environ-mental development)."Robot development" means that the perceptual, cognitive, and behavioral capabilities of the learning robot change from immature to mature states in accordance with learning process. On the other hand, "environmental development" means thatthe complexity of the environmental structure changes from simple to complicated ones in accordance with learning process. Then, the developmental approaches can be categorized according to the relationships between what does develop and what does make the development.A case study of developmental robot learning for joint attention in which a caregiver can be regardedas a part of the environment is given to show how it can accelerate the learning.Finally, future work and discussion are given.