Interaction Histories and Short-Term Memory: Enactive Development of Turn-Taking Behaviours in a Childlike Humanoid Robot
In this article, an enactive architecture is described that allows a humanoid robot to learn to compose simple actions into turn-taking behaviours while playing interaction games with a human partner. The robot’s action choices are reinforced by social feedback from the human in the form o...
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| author | Frank Broz Chrystopher L. Nehaniv Hatice Kose Kerstin Dautenhahn |
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| description | In this article, an enactive architecture is described that allows a humanoid robot to learn to compose simple actions into turn-taking behaviours while playing interaction games with a human partner. The robot’s action choices are reinforced by social feedback from the human in the form of visual attention and measures of behavioural synchronisation. We demonstrate that the system can acquire and switch between behaviours learned through interaction based on social feedback from the human partner. The role of reinforcement based on a short-term memory of the interaction was experimentally investigated. Results indicate that feedback based only on the immediate experience was insufficient to learn longer, more complex turn-taking behaviours. Therefore, some history of the interaction must be considered in the acquisition of turn-taking, which can be efficiently handled through the use of short-term memory. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-f1f977956ac2472f9af5e942f6e151dd2024-04-02T17:58:50ZengMDPI AGPhilosophies2409-92872019-05-014226010.3390/philosophies4020026philosophies4020026Interaction Histories and Short-Term Memory: Enactive Development of Turn-Taking Behaviours in a Childlike Humanoid RobotFrank Broz0Chrystopher L. Nehaniv1Hatice Kose2Kerstin Dautenhahn3Centre for Computer Science & Informatics Research, University of Hertfordshire Adaptive Systems Research Group, Hatfield AL10 9AB, UKCentre for Computer Science & Informatics Research, University of Hertfordshire Adaptive Systems Research Group, Hatfield AL10 9AB, UKCentre for Computer Science & Informatics Research, University of Hertfordshire Adaptive Systems Research Group, Hatfield AL10 9AB, UKCentre for Computer Science & Informatics Research, University of Hertfordshire Adaptive Systems Research Group, Hatfield AL10 9AB, UKIn this article, an enactive architecture is described that allows a humanoid robot to learn to compose simple actions into turn-taking behaviours while playing interaction games with a human partner. The robot’s action choices are reinforced by social feedback from the human in the form of visual attention and measures of behavioural synchronisation. We demonstrate that the system can acquire and switch between behaviours learned through interaction based on social feedback from the human partner. The role of reinforcement based on a short-term memory of the interaction was experimentally investigated. Results indicate that feedback based only on the immediate experience was insufficient to learn longer, more complex turn-taking behaviours. Therefore, some history of the interaction must be considered in the acquisition of turn-taking, which can be efficiently handled through the use of short-term memory.https://www.mdpi.com/2409-9287/4/2/26human–robot interactionturn-takingdevelopmental robotics |
| spellingShingle | Frank Broz Chrystopher L. Nehaniv Hatice Kose Kerstin Dautenhahn Interaction Histories and Short-Term Memory: Enactive Development of Turn-Taking Behaviours in a Childlike Humanoid Robot Philosophies human–robot interaction turn-taking developmental robotics |
| title | Interaction Histories and Short-Term Memory: Enactive Development of Turn-Taking Behaviours in a Childlike Humanoid Robot |
| title_full | Interaction Histories and Short-Term Memory: Enactive Development of Turn-Taking Behaviours in a Childlike Humanoid Robot |
| title_fullStr | Interaction Histories and Short-Term Memory: Enactive Development of Turn-Taking Behaviours in a Childlike Humanoid Robot |
| title_full_unstemmed | Interaction Histories and Short-Term Memory: Enactive Development of Turn-Taking Behaviours in a Childlike Humanoid Robot |
| title_short | Interaction Histories and Short-Term Memory: Enactive Development of Turn-Taking Behaviours in a Childlike Humanoid Robot |
| title_sort | interaction histories and short term memory enactive development of turn taking behaviours in a childlike humanoid robot |
| topic | human–robot interaction turn-taking developmental robotics |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2409-9287/4/2/26 |
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