Abstract. According to the functional approach to language evolution (inspired by cognitive linguistics and construction grammar), grammar arises to deal with issues in communicati...
Spatial scaffolding is a naturally occurring human teaching behavior, in which teachers use their bodies to spatially structure the learning environment to direct the attention of...
In pursuing the ultimate goal of enabling intelligent conversation with a virtual human, two key challenges are selecting nonverbal behaviors to implement and realizing those behav...
In this paper, we try to demonstrate the capability of a very simple architecture to learn to recognize and reproduce facial expressions without the innate capability to recognize ...
We present a novel methodology for building humanlike artificially intelligent systems. We take as a model the only existing systems which are universally accepted as intelligent:...
Rodney A. Brooks, Cynthia Breazeal, Robert Irie, C...