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abstract: |-
  This study argues how a human infant acquires
  the ability of joint attention through
  interactions with its caregiver from the viewpoint
  of a constructive approach. This paper
  presents a constructive model by which a
  robot acquires a sensorimotor coordination for
  joint attention based on visual attention and
  learning with self-evaluation. Since visual attention
  does not always correspond to joint attention,
  the robot may have incorrect learning
  situations for joint attention as well as correct
  ones. However, the robot is expected to statistically
  lose the data of the incorrect ones
  as outliers through the learning, and consequently
  acquires the appropriate sensorimotor
  coordination for joint attention even if the
  environment is not controlled nor the caregiver
  provides any task evaluation. The experimental
  results suggest that the proposed
  model could explain the developmental mechanism
  of the infant’s joint attention because
  the learning process of the robot’s joint attention
  can be regarded as equivalent to the
  developmental process of the infant’s one.
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  - http://www.lucs.lu.se/ftp/pub/LUCS_Studies/LUCS101/Nagai.pdf
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confdates: 'August 4-5, 2003'
conference: 'Third International Workshop on Epigenetic Robotics: Modeling Cognitive Development in Robotic Systems'
confloc: 'Boston, MA, USA'
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creators_name:
  - family: Nagai
    given: Yukie
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  - family: Hosoda
    given: Koh
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    lineage: ''
  - family: Asada
    given: Minoru
    honourific: ''
    lineage: ''
date: 2003
date_type: published
datestamp: 2004-02-12
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editors_name:
  - family: Prince
    given: Christopher G.
    honourific: ''
    lineage: ''
  - family: Berthouze
    given: Luc
    honourific: ''
    lineage: ''
  - family: Kozima
    given: Hideki
    honourific: ''
    lineage: ''
  - family: Bullock
    given: Daniel
    honourific: ''
    lineage: ''
  - family: Stojanov
    given: Georgi
    honourific: ''
    lineage: ''
  - family: Balkenius
    given: Christian
    honourific: ''
    lineage: ''
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keywords: 'joint attention, visual attention, self-evaluation, robotic learning'
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pagerange: 91-98
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publisher: Lund University Cognitive Studies
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rev_number: 12
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status_changed: 2007-09-12 16:50:08
subjects:
  - comp-sci-mach-learn
  - comp-sci-robot
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title: 'How does an infant acquire the ability of joint attention?: A Constructive Approach'
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userid: 3507
volume: 101
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