HUMANOBS

Humanoids that Learn Socio-Communicative Skills by Observation

Coordinatore	HASKOLINN I REYKJAVIK EHF    more  Organization address address: MENNTAVEGUR 1 city: REYKJAVIK postcode: 101 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Bjorgvin Cognome: Richardsson Email: send email Telefono: +354 599 6437
Nazionalità Coordinatore	Iceland [IS]
Totale costo	3˙111˙729 €
EC contributo	2˙025˙000 €
Programma	FP7-ICT Specific Programme "Cooperation": Information and communication technologies
Code Call	FP7-ICT-2007-3
Funding Scheme	CP
Anno di inizio	2009
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2009-01-01   -   2012-06-30

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	HASKOLINN I REYKJAVIK EHF  Organization address address: MENNTAVEGUR 1 city: REYKJAVIK postcode: 101 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Bjorgvin Cognome: Richardsson Email: send email Telefono: +354 599 6437	IS (REYKJAVIK)	coordinator	0.00
2	COMMUNICATIVE MACHINES LIMITED  Organization address address: BLACKBURN HOUSE PARKNEUK city: DUNFERMLINE postcode: KY12 9BL contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Thor Cognome: List Email: send email Telefono: +44 131 208 1302 Fax: +44 131 208 1302	UK (DUNFERMLINE)	participant	0.00
3	CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DELLE RICERCHE  Organization address address: PIAZZALE ALDO MORO city: ROMA postcode: 185 contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Rosario Cognome: Falcone Email: send email Telefono: +39 06 44595 283 Fax: +39 06 44 362 368	IT (ROMA)	participant	0.00
4	SCUOLA UNIVERSITARIA PROFESSIONALE DELLA SVIZZERA ITALIANA (SUPSI)  Organization address address: RESIDENZA GOVERNATIVA city: BELLINZONA postcode: 6501 contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Faustino Cognome: Gomez Email: send email Telefono: +41 91 610 8541 Fax: +41 91 610 8661	CH (BELLINZONA)	participant	0.00
5	UNIVERSIDAD POLITECNICA DE MADRID  Organization address address: Calle Ramiro de Maeztu city: MADRID postcode: 28040 contact info Titolo: Prof. Nome: Ricardo Cognome: Sanz Email: send email Telefono: +34 913363061 Fax: +34 913363010	ES (MADRID)	participant	0.00
6	UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI PALERMO  Organization address address: PIAZZA MARINA city: PALERMO postcode: 90133 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Ferdinando Cognome: Di Siena Email: send email Telefono: +39 091 7028505 Fax: +39 0916598043	IT (PALERMO)	participant	0.00

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 Obiettivo del progetto (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.