Fifth International Conference on Development and Learning

May 31 - June 3, 2006
Bloomington, IN USA

Important Dates
Submission Deadline: February 6, 2006
Conference Dates: May 31 - June 3, 2006

LIST OF SPECIAL SESSIONS:

Special Session I - May 31
The Dynamic Field Approach to Embodied Cognition: Integrating Insights from Babies, Brains and Bots
Organizers: John Spencer (Univ. Iowa), Gregor Schoner (Univ. Bochum)
Participants: Gregor Schoner (Univ. Bochum), John Spencer (Univ. Iowa), Evelina Dineva (Indiana Univ.), John Lipinski (Univ. Iowa), Larissa Samuelsson (Univ. Iowa)

Special Session II - June 1
The Role of Distributed Intelligence in Building a Social Brain
Organizer: Michael Goldstein (Cornell Univ.)
Participants: Michael Goldstein (Cornell Univ.), Jeff Schank (UC Davis), Emma Despland (Concordia University)
Special Session Materials

Special Session III - June 1
Learning, Development and Emotion in Everyday Robots
Organizers: Fumihide Tanaka (Sony), Javier Movellan (UCSD)
Participants: Fumihide Tanaka (Sony), Javier Movellan (UCSD), Cynthia Breazeal (MIT), Hideki Kozima (NICT), Frederic Kaplan (Sony), Hiroshi Ishiguro (Osaka Univ.), John Weng (MSU)

Special Session IV - June 2
Toward a Constructivist Account of Development of Perceptual Completion
Organizer: Matthew Schlesinger (Southern Illinois Univ.)
Participants: Scott Johnson (NYU), Dima Amso (Cornell Univ.), Matt Schlesinger (Southern Illinois Univ.)

Special Session V - June 2
Synergistic Intelligence: Approach to Human Intelligence through Understanding and Design of Cognitive Development
Organizer: Minoru Asada (Osaka Univ.)
Participants: MInoru Asada (Osaka Univ.), Koh Hosoda (Osaka Univ.), Yasuo Kuniyoshi (Univ. Tokyo), Hiroshi Ishiguro (Osaka Univ.), Toshio Inui (Kyoto Univ.).

Special Session VI - June 3
Development and Incremental Learning in Perceptual Systems
Organizers: John Weng (MSU), Zhengyou Zhang (Microsoft )
Participants: Charles Kemp (MIT), Stephen Levinson (UIUC), Risto Miikulainen, Alex Pentland (MIT), John Weng (MSU), Thomas Shultz (McGill), Li Fei-Fei (UIUC), James Crowley (INRIA Grenoble), Nathan Koenig (USC), John Kruschke (Indiana).

Special Session VII - June 3
Classifying Activities in Manual Tasks
Organizer: Rod Grupen (Univ. Mass.)
Participants: Andrew Barto (Univ. Mass.), Cynthia Breazeal (MIT), Aaron Edsinger (MIT), Andrew Fagg (UO), Rod Grupen (Univ. Mass.), Chad Jenkins (Brown Univ.), Alan Peters (Vanderbilt), Tim Oates (UMBC), Robert Platt (NASA-JSC), Emanuel Todorov (UCSD), Jonathan Vaughan (Hamilton College).

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