Each of you have a suggested reading material assigned.  Please review it carefully.  I tried to provide you with sufficient material to choose from.  However, you do not need to incorporate more than 100 pages from the suggested reading in your study. 

You will have to present essential information from your reading during 20 min. in-class presentation delivered according to the schedule page.  You need to use not more than 20-25 power point slides in your talk.  Your presentation will be evaluated for clarity and the content of the talk according to the speaker feedback form.

By April 30 you will need to submit a 5 page write-up of your reading assignment.  This should include the most important thesis you will present in your talk.  Please structure your 5 page document by presenting the main topic, its importance, its relevance to embodied intelligence, and the main observations and results.  Limit the number of figures to a necessary minimum to explain the concept.  You will use all the visual material in your talk.   The document must be typed, single spaced, using 10pt Century Gothic fonts (as in this assignment).  This document is part of your reading assignment and will be graded.

Nathan Frey -  Bryson, "Embodiment vs. Memetics",  also Steels,  "Fluid Construction Grammar", "Hierarchical Fluid Construction Grammar", "Linking in Fluid Construction Grammar",  "Perspective Alignment in Spatial Language", "Emergent Semantics", Yu "Embodied Intention in Lexical Acquisition ".

Yiming Huang - Kirchhoff, "Robust Speech Recognition", also Wrede, "Speech Rate Variation", Creutz "Morphology of Natural Language"

Jayanth Ramani -  Wachsmuth "Multi-modal Scene Understanding", also Ritter "Neural Architectures for Robot Intelligence"

Xinming Yu - Glimcher, "Visual Saccadic Decision Making" also  "Eye Movements", "Activity Posterior Parietal Cortex during Saccades", "Topographic Organization of Saccades", "Contextual Saccades", Heideman "Visual Knowledge"

Yinyin Liu - Balcetis "Motivational Influences on Visual Perception", also Soto,  "Object-based attention", Avidan, "Object specific attention", Serences, "Control of Object-based Attention", "Cortical mechanisms of attention control", Taylor, "Model for Visual Attention", Frintrop, "Visual Attention for Object Recognition"

Amit Borundiya - Hanheide, "Cognitive Ego-Vision System",  also Kogure, "Intelligent Robotics"

James Graham -   Scassellati "Theory of Mind for a Humanoid Robot",  also "Foundations for a Theory of Mind for a Humanoid Robot"

Ning Zhou - Kirchhoff, "Combining Acoustic and Articulatory Features", Liu, "Landmark detection", Chang, "Stress-Accent Model",

 Basawaraj - Kopp "Imitation Learning", also  "Conversational agents", "Max – A Multimodal Assistant","Behavior Markup Language", "Spatial Specificity", "Conversational Agent", "Gesture Synthesis"

Chris Grimes - Chrisley, "Embodied artificial intelligence","Information-processing in biologically inspired robots",  also  "Virtual Machines and Consciousness", "Understanding of Consciousness"

If for any reason you found your work to be not sufficiently clear to you please discuss with me a change in the assigned reading.

Other papers you could chose from are:

Breazeal  "Emotion and sociable humanoid robots", "Function Meets Style",  "Robot Emothion: a Fuctional Perspective",  "Lip Synchronized Robot Speech", "Humanoid Robots as Cooperative Partners for People" and  "Learning From and About Others"

Hurst "Self Adapting Robot"

Okada "Humanoid Robot Mechanisms for Responsive Mobility"

Kuner, "Self-Collision Detection and Prevention for Humanoid Robots"

Bischoff "Humanoid Robot Hermes"

Vijayakumar "Overt Visual Attention for a Humanoid Robot"

Steels "Intelligence with Representation" and "Language Evolution", "Semiotic Dynamics for Embodied Agents",

Glimcher, "Neuroeconomics of Choice"

Inamura "Hidden Markov Model Symbol Emergence"

Smith, "The Development of Embodied Cognition: Six Lessons from Babies", also "How People Talk to Robots"