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Profiles
Professor Tony Belpaeme
Professor in Intelligent and Autonomous Control Systems
School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics (Faculty of Science and Engineering)
Key publications are highlighted
Journals
Articles
2019
'A Personalized and Platform-Independent Behavior Control System for Social Robots in Therapy: Development and Applications'
IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems
11,
(3)
334-346
, DOI
PEARL
2019
'What Can You See? Identifying Cues on Internal States From the Movements of Natural Social Interactions'
Frontiers in Robotics and AI
6,
, DOI
PEARL
2019
'Robot-Enhanced Therapy: Development and Validation of Supervised Autonomous Robotic System for Autism Spectrum Disorders Therapy'
IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine
26,
(2)
49-58
, DOI
PEARL
2018
'Sensing-Enhanced Therapy System for Assessing Children With Autism Spectrum Disorders: A Feasibility Study'
IEEE Sensors Journal
19,
(4)
1508-1518
, DOI
PEARL
2018
'The PInSoRo dataset: Supporting the data- driven study of child-child and child-robot social dynamics'
PLoS ONE
13,
(10)
, DOI
PEARL
2018
'Children conform, adults resist: A robot group induced peer pressure on normative social conformity'
Science Robotics
, DOI
PEARL
2018
'Experiences of a motivational interview delivered by a robot: qualitative study'
Journal of Medical Internet Research
Publisher Site
, DOI
PEARL
2018
'Robot Enhanced Therapy for Children with Autism (DREAM): A Social Model of Autism'
IEEE Technology and Society Magazine
37,
(1)
30-39
, DOI
PEARL
2018
'Guidelines for Designing Social Robots as Second Language Tutors'
International Journal of Social Robotics
10,
(3)
325-341
, DOI
PEARL
2017
'The multi-modal interface of Robot-Era multi-robot services tailored for the elderly'
Intelligent Service Robotics
1-18
, DOI
PEARL
2017
'Robot education peers in a situated primary school study: Personalisation promotes child learning'
PLoS One
12,
(5)
e0178126-e0178126
, DOI
PEARL
2017
'How to Build a Supervised Autonomous System for Robot-Enhanced Therapy for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder'
Paladyn, Journal of Behavioral Robotics
8,
(1)
, DOI
PEARL
2017
'The Impact of Robot Tutor Nonverbal Social Behavior on Child Learning'
Frontiers in ICT
4,
(6)
, DOI
PEARL
2017
'Supervised autonomy for online learning in human-robot interaction'
Pattern Recognition Letters
, DOI
PEARL
2016
'Nonverbal Immediacy as a Characterisation of Social Behaviour for Human–Robot Interaction'
International Journal of Social Robotics
, DOI
PEARL
2016
'Hierarchical reinforcement learning as creative problem solving'
Robotics and Autonomous Systems
86,
196-206
, DOI
PEARL
2016
'Embodied Language Learning and Cognitive Bootstrapping: Methods and Design Principles'
International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems
13,
(3)
105-105
, DOI
PEARL
2015
'Toward usable and acceptable robot interfaces for the elderly: The robot-era project experience'
INTERNATIONAL PSYCHOGERIATRICS
27,
S179-S179
PEARL
2015
'People Interpret Robotic Non-linguistic Utterances Categorically'
International Journal of Social Robotics
8,
(1)
31-50
, DOI
PEARL
2015
'Why Robots Should Be Social: Enhancing Machine Learning through Social Human-Robot Interaction'
PLOS ONE
10,
(9)
e0138061-e0138061
, DOI
PEARL
2015
'Comparing Robot Embodiments in a Guided Discovery Learning Interaction with Children'
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SOCIAL ROBOTICS
7,
(2)
293-308
, DOI
2014
'The ITALK project: a developmental robotics approach to the study of individual, social, and linguistic learning'
Top Cogn Sci
6,
(3)
534-544
, DOI
2013
'Cognitive architecture for human–robot interaction: Towards behavioural alignment'
Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures
6,
30-39
, DOI
2013
'Multimodal Child-Robot Interaction: Building Social Bonds'
Journal of Human-Robot Interaction
1,
(2)
33-53
Publisher Site
, DOI
2012
'WORD AND CATEGORY LEARNING IN A CONTINUOUS SEMANTIC DOMAIN: COMPARING CROSS-SITUATIONAL AND INTERACTIVE LEARNING'
Advances in Complex Systems
15,
(03n04)
1250031-1250031
, DOI
2012
'Robot-assisted therapy for autism spectrum disorders with (partially) autonomous control: Challenges and outlook'
Paladyn
3,
209-217
, DOI
PEARL
2012
'WORD AND CATEGORY LEARNING IN A CONTINUOUS SEMANTIC DOMAIN: COMPARING CROSS-SITUATIONAL AND INTERACTIVE LEARNING'
Advances in Complex Systems
15,
(03)
2012
'WORD AND CATEGORY LEARNING IN A CONTINUOUS SEMANTIC DOMAIN: COMPARING CROSS-SITUATIONAL AND INTERACTIVE LEARNING'
Advances in Complex Systems
15,
(03n04)
1-13
2011
'A review of long-term memory in natural and synthetic systems'
ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR
20,
(2)
81-103
, DOI
2011
'Research Commentaries on Cangelosi’s “Solutions and Open Challenges for the Symbol Grounding Problem”'
International Journal of Signs and Semiotic Systems (IJSSS)
1,
(1)
55-79
PEARL
2010
'Epigenetic Robotics Architecture (ERA)'
Autonomous Mental Development, IEEE Transactions on
2,
(4)
325-339
, DOI
2010
'Grounding Action Words in the Sensorimotor Interaction with the World: Experiments with a Simulated iCub Humanoid Robot'
Front Neurorobot
4,
1-15
, DOI
PEARL
2008
'Beyond the individual: new insights on language, cognition and robots'
Connection Science
20,
(4)
231-237
, DOI
2007
'Extending symbol grounding'
Interaction Studies
8,
(1)
1-6
2007
'Review of Niyogi (2006) The Computational Nature of Language Learning and Evolution'
33,
(3)
2007
'The computational nature of language learning and evolution'
Computational Linguistics
33,
(3)
429-431
2006
'A computational model of intention reading in imitation'
Robotics and Autonomous Systems
54 (5),
394-402
, DOI
2005
'Coordinating Perceptually Grounded Categories through Language. A Case Study for Colour'
24,
(8)
469-529
2005
'Coordinating perceptually grounded categories through language: A case study for colour'
Behavioral and Brain Sciences
28,
(4)
469-+
2005
'Does the world hand us colour categories. In preparation'
2005
'Explaining universal color categories through a constrained acquisition process'
Adaptive Behavior
13,
(4)
293-310
2005
'The semiotic dynamics of colour - Authors' response'
Behavioral and Brain Sciences
28,
(4)
515-529
2001
'Hungry Robots'
8,
(2)
0
'Experiences of a Motivational Interview Delivered by a Robot: Qualitative Study (Preprint)'
, DOI
0
'Integration of Action and Language Knowledge: A Roadmap for Developmental Robotics'
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AUTONOMOUS MENTAL DEVELOPMENT
2,
{167-195}-{167-195}
, DOI
PEARL
0
'The Free-play Sandbox: a Methodology for the Evaluation of Social
Robotics and a Dataset of Social Interactions'
Books
Cowley SJ; MacDorman KF
2009
Symbol grounding.
John Benjamins
Chapters
2016
'A User-Centric Design of Service Robots Speech Interface for the Elderly'
Recent Advances in Nonlinear Speech Processing
Springer International Publishing
275-283
, DOI
2016
'Social Development of Artificial Cognition'
Toward Robotic Socially Believable Behaving Systems - Volume I
Springer International Publishing
53-72
, DOI
2007
'Language, Perceptual Categories and their Interaction: Insights from Computational Modelling'
Emergence of Communication and Language
Springer London
339-353
, DOI
2006
'The subtle interplay between language and category acquisition and how it explains the universality of colour categories'
in Cangelosi A; Smith ADM; Smith K
The Evolution of Language
World Scientific
395-396
2005
'Klare taal: Wat kunnen computermodellen ons leren over taalevolutie?'
in Mondt K
Dynamisch Inter(en trans-)disciplinair Taal Onderzoek: De nieuwe taalwetenschappen
Brussels, Belgium
VUB Press
2005
'The role of population dynamics in imitation'
in Nehaniv CL
Imitation and Social Learning in Robots, Humans and Animals: Behavioural, Social and Communicative Dimensions
Cambridge, UK
Cambridge University Press
2004
'You did it on purpose! Towards intentional embodied agents'
in Iida F; Pfeifer R; Steels L; Kuniyoshi Y
Embodied Artificial Intelligence
Berlin
Springer
271-277
0
'The dynamic emergence of categories through imitation'
Imitation and Social Learning in Robots, Humans and Animals
Cambridge University Press
179-194
, DOI
Conference Papers
2019
'Second Language Tutoring Using Social Robots: A Large-Scale Study'
2019 14th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)
11/03/2019
14/03/2019
IEEE
, DOI
PEARL
2019
'Towards Generating Spatial Referring Expressions in a Social Robot: Dynamic vs Non-Ambiguous'
2019 14th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)
11/03/2019
14/03/2019
IEEE
, DOI
PEARL
2019
'UNDERWORLDS: Cascading Situation Assessment for Robots'
2018 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
01/10/2018
05/10/2018
IEEE
, DOI
PEARL
2019
'Accurate eye center localization via hierarchical adaptive convolution'
2019
'Second language tutoring using social robots: L2TOR-the movie'
373-373
2018
'Using a Robot Peer to Encourage the Production of Spatial Concepts in a Second Language'
Human-Agent Interaction (HAI 2018)
, DOI
PEARL
2018
'Architecture for a Social Assistive Robot in Cardiac Rehabilitation'
2018 IEEE 2nd Colombian Conference on Robotics and Automation (CCRA)
01/11/2018
03/11/2018
IEEE
, DOI
PEARL
2018
'Social Assistive Robot for Cardiac Rehabilitation: A Pilot Study with Patients with Angioplasty'
79-80
, DOI
PEARL
2017
'Human-robot sensor interface for cardiac rehabilitation'
2017 International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics (ICORR)
17/07/2017
20/07/2017
IEEE
, DOI
PEARL
2017
'Child Speech Recognition in Human-Robot Interaction: Evaluations and Recommendations'
, DOI
PEARL
2017
'Leveraging Human Inputs in Interactive Machine Learning for Human Robot Interaction'
, DOI
PEARL
2017
'The Effect of Age on Engagement in Preschoolers' Child-Robot Interactions'
2017 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction
, DOI
PEARL
2017
'Qualitative Review of Object Recognition Techniques for Tabletop Manipulation'
the 5th International Conference
17/10/2017
20/10/2017
ACM Press
, DOI
PEARL
2017
'Workshop on Robots for Learning'
the Companion of the 2017 ACM/IEEE International Conference
06/03/2017
09/03/2017
ACM Press
, DOI
PEARL
2016
'Social robot tutoring for child second language learning'
2016 11th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)
07/03/2016
10/03/2016
IEEE
, DOI
PEARL
2016
'Socially contingent humanoid robot head behaviour results in increased charity donations'
2016 11th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)
07/03/2016
10/03/2016
IEEE
, DOI
PEARL
2016
'Experimental Evaluation of a Multi-modal User Interface for a Robotic Service'
Springer International Publishing
87-98
, DOI
PEARL
2016
'From Characterising Three Years of HRI to Methodology and Reporting Recommendations'
, DOI
PEARL
2016
'From Characterising Three Years of HRI to Methodology and Reporting Recommendations'
391-398
2016
'Heart vs Hard Drive: Children Learn More From a Human Tutor Than a Social Robot'
451-452
2015
'Head Pose Estimation is an Inadequate Replacement for Eye Gaze in Child-Robot Interaction'
the Tenth Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference
02/03/2015
05/03/2015
ACM Press
, DOI
2015
'The Robot Who Tried Too Hard'
the Tenth Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference
02/03/2015
05/03/2015
ACM Press
, DOI
PEARL
2015
'When is it Better to Give Up?'
the Tenth Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference
02/03/2015
05/03/2015
ACM Press
, DOI
2015
'Can less be more? the impact of robot social behaviour on human learning'
2015
'Higher Nonverbal Immediacy Leads to Greater Learning Gains in Child-Robot Tutoring Interactions'
Springer International Publishing
327-336
, DOI
2015
'SPARC: Supervised Progressively Autonomous Robot Competencies'
Springer International Publishing
603-612
, DOI
2014
'A web based Multi-Modal Interface for elderly users of the Robot-Era multi-robot services'
2014 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics - SMC
05/10/2014
08/10/2014
IEEE
, DOI
2014
'Gestural art: A Steady State Visual Evoked Potential (SSVEP) based Brain Computer Interface to express intentions through a robotic hand'
2014 RO-MAN: The 23rd IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication
25/08/2014
29/08/2014
IEEE
, DOI
2014
'What a robotic companion could do for a diabetic child'
2014 RO-MAN: The 23rd IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication
25/08/2014
29/08/2014
IEEE
, DOI
2014
'Children comply with a robot's indirect requests'
the 2014 ACM/IEEE international conference
03/03/2014
06/03/2014
ACM Press
, DOI
2014
'Non-linguistic utterances should be used alongside language, rather than on their own or as a replacement'
the 2014 ACM/IEEE international conference
03/03/2014
06/03/2014
ACM Press
, DOI
2014
'Situational context directs how people affectively interpret robotic non-linguistic utterances'
the 2014 ACM/IEEE international conference
03/03/2014
06/03/2014
ACM Press
, DOI
2014
'The chatbot strikes back'
the 2014 ACM/IEEE international conference
03/03/2014
06/03/2014
ACM Press
, DOI
2014
'Tracking gaze over time in HRI as a proxy for engagement and attribution of social agency'
the 2014 ACM/IEEE international conference
03/03/2014
06/03/2014
ACM Press
, DOI
2014
'HRI 2014 chairs' welcome'
2014
'Pervasive Memory: The future of long-term social HRI lies in the past'
2014
'Towards integrating dialog, planning, and execution for service robots'
51-53
2013
'Activity Switching in Child-Robot Interaction: A Hospital Case Study'
585-+
2013
'Child-Robot Interaction: Perspectives and Challenges'
452-459
2013
'Constraining Content in Mediated Unstructured Social Interactions: Studies in the Wild'
728-733
, DOI
2013
'Do Children Behave Differently with a Social Robot If with Peers?'
567-568
2013
'Emergence of Turn-taking in Unstructured Child-Robot Social Interactions'
77-+
2013
'People Interpret Robotic Non-Linguistic Utterances Categorically'
209-210
2013
'Using the AffectButton to Measure Affect in Child and Adult-Robot Interaction'
211-212
2012
'A touchscreen-based 'sandtray' to facilitate, mediate and contextualise human-robot social interaction'
the seventh annual ACM/IEEE international conference
05/03/2012
08/03/2012
ACM Press
, DOI
2012
'"And what is a Seasnake?" Modelling the Acquisition of Concept Prototypes in a Developmental Framework'
2012
'Active Robot Learning with Human Tutelage'
2012
'Refined Human-Robot Interaction through retro-projected robotic heads'
106-107
2012
'Robotic Model of the Contribution of Gesture to Learning to Count'
2011
'On memory systems for companion robots: Implementation methodologies and legal implications'
30-34
2011
'Lighthead robotic face'
the 6th international conference
06/03/2011
09/03/2011
ACM Press
, DOI
2011
'Children’s perception of a robotic companion in a mildly constrained setting: How children within age 8-11 perceive a robotic companion'
Lausanne, Switserland
2011
'Child-robot interaction in the wild: advice to the aspiring experimenter'
Valencia, Spain
ACM
335-342
Publisher Site
, DOI
2011
'Memory-Centred Architectures: Perspectives on Human-Level Cognitive Competencies'
26-33
2011
'Modeling U Shaped Performance Curves in Ongoing Development'
Carlson LA; Hölscher C; Shipley TF
cognitivesciencesociety.org
Publisher Site
2011
'The Development of Shared Meaning within Different Embodiments'
2011
'The Power of Words'
2010
'ITALK: Integration and transfer of action and language knowledge in robots'
2010
'A study of a retro-projected robotic face and its effectiveness for gaze reading by humans'
5th ACM/IEEE International Conference
Osaka
02/03/2010
05/03/2010
39-44
, DOI
2010
'The influence of language on concept formation in artificial agents'
Smith ADM; Schouwstra M; DeBoer B; Smith K
8th International Conference on the Evolution of Language (EVOLANG 8)
Utrecht, NETHERLANDS
14/04/2010
17/04/2010
WORLD SCIENTIFIC PUBL CO PTE LTD
397-398
2010
'A study of a retro-projected robotic face and its effectiveness for gaze reading by humans'
Proceeding of the 5th ACM/IEEE international conference
02/03/2010
05/03/2010
ACM Press
, DOI
2010
'Interpreting Non-Linguistic Utterances by Robots: Studying the Influence of Physical Appearance'
Firenze, Italy
2010
'Thinking With Your Body: Modelling Spatial Biases in Categorization Using a Real Humanoid Robot'
1362-1367
2009
'Towards retro-projected robot faces: An alternative to mechatronic and android faces'
RO-MAN 2009 - The 18th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication
27/09/2009
02/10/2009
IEEE
, DOI
2009
'Human-Robot Interaction in Concept Acquisition: a computational model'
168-173
2009
'Towards Retro-projected Robot Faces: an Alternative to Mechatronic and Android Faces'
249-254
2006
'A model for inferring the intention in imitation tasks'
RO-MAN 2006: The 15th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication
06/09/2006
08/09/2006
IEEE
, DOI
2005
'Explaining universal colour categories through a constrained acquisition process'
317-318
2005
'Colourful language and colour categories'
Nehaniv CL
Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on the Emergence and Evolution of Linguistic Communication (EELC'05), Hertfordshire, UK
The Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour
2004
'Does structure in the environment influence our conceptualization?'
Proceedings of the Evolution of Language Conference 2004, Leipzig, Germany
2004
'Embodied cognition through cultural interaction'
Balkenius C
Proceedings of the Fourth Conference on Epigenetic Robotics: Modelling Cognitive Development in Robotic Systems, Genova, Italy
Lund University
141-142
2004
'Imitation in embodied agents results in self-organization of behavior'
455-463
2003
'Emerging shared action categories in robotic agents through imitation'
Nehaniv CL
Second International Symposium on Imitation in Animals and Artifacts 2003
The Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behavior
145-152
2003
'The role of population dynamics in imitation'
Nehaniv CL
Second International Symposium on Imitation in Animals and Artifacts 2003
The Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behavior
171-175
2001
'Simulating the Formation of Color Categories'
Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2001 (IJCAI'01), Seattle, WA. Morgan Kauffman, San Francisco, CA.
393-398
2001
'Reaching coherent color categories through communication'
Kröse B
Proceedings of the 13th Belgium-Netherlands Conference on Artificial Intelligence (BNAIC01), Amsterdam, The Netherlands
41-48
2000
'The VUB AI-lab RoboCup'99 small league team'
687-690
1999
'Evolution of Visual Feature Detectors'
Proceedings of the First European Workshop on Evolutionary Computation in Image Analysis and Signal Processing (EvoIASP99, Göteborg, Sweden)
University of Birmingham School of Computer Science
1999
'Evolving visual feature detectors'
266-270
1999
'The small league RoboCup team of the VUB AI-Lab'
410-415
1998
'A multi agent system based on heterogeneous robots'
Fukuda
Proceedings of the Collective Robotics Workshop
Berlin
Springer
1998
'Tracking objects using an active camera'
Herik JVD
Proceedings of the 10th Belgium-Netherlands Conference on Artificial Intelligence (BNAIC98), Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1997
'On the watch'
Proceedings of the 30th International Symposium on Automotive Technology and Automation conference (ISATA 97), Florence, Italy
ISATA Press
Reports
2005
Cognitive models of space and objects.
Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Brussels, Belgium
Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Artificial Intelligence Lab
2002
Communicating colour embedded in a colour context: Report on experiments on communicating colour meaning between Flemish informants.
Artificial Intelligence Lab, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
1997
A Real-World Ecosystem featuring several Robot Species.
Artificial Intelligence Lab, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Other Publications
0
A cross-situational learning algorithm for damping homonymy in the guessing game.
Rocha LM; Bedau M; Floreano D; Goldstone R; Vespignani A; Yaeger L
The MIT Press
0
0
0
Are colour categories innate or learned? Insights from computational modelling.
0
0
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Coordination of Meaning within Different Embodiments through Linguistic Interaction (Submitted to Cognitive Science 2011).
0
0
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Extended Symbol Grounding.
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
John Benjamins
0
0
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Factors influencing the origins of colour categories.
0
0
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Robots should not be Robinson Crusoes.
0
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Links
Personal homepage: www.tonybelpaeme.me