It's a Child's Game: Investigating Cognitive Development with Playing Robots

Johansson, B; Balkenius, C

It's a Child's Game: Investigating Cognitive Development with Playing Robots

Johansson, B Balkenius, C

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Publication Type:: Conference Proceeding
Citation:: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL), 2005, pp. 164 - 164
Issue Date:: 2005-01

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dc.contributor.author	Johansson, B	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Balkenius, C	en_US
dc.contributor.editor	Not listed	en_US
dc.date	2005-07-19	en_US
dc.date.issued	2005-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL), 2005, pp. 164 - 164	en_US
dc.identifier.isbn	0-7803-9226-4	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/11508
dc.description.abstract	To study and simulate cognitive development, it is useful to find a natural domain where many cognitive functions are needed and, but where the complexity of the environment and task is reasonable. We suggest that childrens games constitute a suitable domain. The ability to play is a very fundamental part of children's daily life and it is crucial for the future development of our behaviors in Bekoff and Byers (1998). In the individual domain, the coordination of the body is an important feature of play. When a child plays, it refines its motor and sensory skills and develops more advanced movement patterns e.g. in running or cycling. When playing among other individuals, cognitive functions for social interactions and coordination and emotional control are also used. Trafton et al. (2003) programmed a robot to model a 3-4 year old child playing hide and seek. The robot moves around in their laboratory and tries to hide behind different objects and learn which hiding places what are good ones. Games like hide and seek, tag and other popular children's games were used. By bringing the best developmental and learning models together, hopes to find out more about the mechanisms of cognitive development	en_US
dc.publisher	IEEE	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL)	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	International Conference on Development and Learning	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1109/DEVLRN.2005.1490970	en_US
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dc.title	It's a Child's Game: Investigating Cognitive Development with Playing Robots	en_US
dc.type	Conference Proceeding
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utslib.location.activity	Osaka, Japan	en_US
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dc.location.activity	Osaka, Japan	en_US
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Abstract:

To study and simulate cognitive development, it is useful to find a natural domain where many cognitive functions are needed and, but where the complexity of the environment and task is reasonable. We suggest that childrens games constitute a suitable domain. The ability to play is a very fundamental part of children's daily life and it is crucial for the future development of our behaviors in Bekoff and Byers (1998). In the individual domain, the coordination of the body is an important feature of play. When a child plays, it refines its motor and sensory skills and develops more advanced movement patterns e.g. in running or cycling. When playing among other individuals, cognitive functions for social interactions and coordination and emotional control are also used. Trafton et al. (2003) programmed a robot to model a 3-4 year old child playing hide and seek. The robot moves around in their laboratory and tries to hide behind different objects and learn which hiding places what are good ones. Games like hide and seek, tag and other popular children's games were used. By bringing the best developmental and learning models together, hopes to find out more about the mechanisms of cognitive development

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