Imitation and Social Learning in Robots, Humans and Animals: Behavioural, Social and Communicative Dimensions
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| Rating | : | 4.30 (613 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0521108632 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 508 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-09-09 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Imitation and Social Learning" according to Sally K. Severino. The editors of this book clearly state their purpose: "This book studies increasingly sophisticated models and mechanisms of social matching behaviour and marks an important step towards the development of an interdisciplinary research field, consolidating and providing a valuable reference for the increasing number of researchers in the field of imitation and social learning in robots, humans and animals."This is truly a resource book
This book offers a rich set of processing strategies of importance to key areas of computer science, like robotics and embodied communication - and this new understanding factors back into novel theories of human social interaction and its disorders." Michael Arbib, University Professor, Fletcher Jones Chair in Computer Science and Professor of Biological Sciences and Biomedical Engineering, University of Southern California"Imitation has become the hottest of multi-disciplinary topics in recent years. "Imitation and Social Learning in Robots, Humans, and Animals advances our understanding of the diversity of “imitations” and how much is to be learned from comparing them across species as diverse as parrots, butterflies, and even a male cuttlefish impersonating a female in a breeding pair - and thence to humans
Chrystopher L. He is the Director of the UK EPSRC Network on Evolvability in Biological and Software Systems and an Associate Editor of BioSystems: Journal of Biological and Information Processing Sciences and Interaction Studies: Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systems.Kerstin Dautenhahn is Research Professor of Art
This book studies increasingly sophisticated models and mechanisms of social matching behaviour and marks an important step towards the development of an interdisciplinary research field, consolidating and providing a valuable reference for the increasing number of researchers in the field of imitation and social learning in robots, humans and animals.. Whilst such issues have traditionally been studied in areas such as psychology, biology and ethnology, it has become increasingly recognised that a 'constructive approach' towards imitation and social learning via the synthesis of artificial agents can provide important insights into mechanisms and create artefacts that can be instructed and taugh