Proceedings of the 50th Anniversary Convention of the AISB
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Learning to play Monopoly: A Reinforcement Learning
approach Panagiotis Bailis, Anestis Fachantidis and Ioannis
Vlahavas
Briefing Virtual
Actors: a First Report on the PRESTO Project Paolo
Busetta, Chiara Ghidini, Matteo Pedrotti, Antonella De Angeli and Zeno Menestrina
Countdown
Numbers Game: Solved, Analysed, Extended Simon Colton
Automating
Game Design In Three Dimensions Michael Cook, Simon
Colton and Jeremy Gow
To That Sect
and Other Short Games Michael Cook and Simon Colton
Toward Using
Games and Artificial Intelligence to Proactively Sense the Real World
Spencer J. Frazier and Mark O. Riedl
Monte Carlo
Search for a real-time arcade game, Puyo-Puyo Paul Hanson
and David C. Moffat
Brain Controlled Games: Concepts and Classifiers
Ahmed Sedeeq
A Logical
Approach to Building Dungeons: Answer Set Programming for Hierarchical Procedural
Content Generation in Roguelike Games Anthony
J. Smith and Joanna J. Bryson
Introduction
John Preston and Yasemin J. Erden
On Acid Drops and Teardrops: Observer Issues in Computational
Creativity Simon Colton, Michael Cook, Rose Hepworth
and Alison Pease
Rejecting the
Received View: Representation, Computation, and Observer-Relativity
Joe Dewhurst
Models, maps
and metaphors: Why the brain is still not a computer, via Searle and Kant
Yasemin J. Erden
Relativity of
Computational Descriptions Piotr Jablonski
What is the
Role of the Observer in a Computation? Peter Leupold
Structure and
Dynamics in Implementation of Computations Jacques
Mallah
Emergence of
Euclidian Geometry in a Computational Universe Michael
Nicolaidis
From Observer-
Relativity to Assignment-Dependence John Preston
Autonomy of
Computation and Observer Dependence. Marcin J. Schroeder
Natural Computation:
the Cellular Automata Case Martin Schuele
Algorithms
Implemented in Space and Time Paul Schweizer
The Brain as
a Model of the World Oron Shagrir
Observer Relativity,
Physical Properties and Causation Graham White
Computation
as knowledge generation,with application to the observer-relativity problem.
Jiri Wiedermann and Jan van Leeuwen
On Evil and
Computational Creativity Mohammad Majid al-Rifaie and
Ahmed Aber
Skills and the
Appreciation of Computer Art Margaret A. Boden
Reviewing Propp's
Story Generation Procedure in the Light of Computational Creativity.
Pablo Gervas
Automating
Fictional Ideation using ConceptNet. Maria Teresa Llano,
Rose Hepworth, Simon Colton, John Charnley and Jeremy Gow
On the Future
of Computers and Creativity. Jon McCormack and Mark
dInverno
Considering
the Law as an Evaluative Mechanism for Computational Creativity
Stephen McGregor
Generating
expressive timing by combining rhythmic categories and Lindenmayer systems
Carlos Vaquero Patricio and Henkjan Honing
Accomplice:
Creative Robotics and Embodied Computational Creativity Rob
Saunders and Petra Gemeinboeck
Artistically
Skilled Embodied Agents Patrick Tresset and Oliver Deussen.
INVITED TALK - ABSTRACT ONLY
A cognitive architecture for creativity Geraint Wiggins
Autaptic
Circuits for Neural Vehicles Steve Battle
Integrated Analysis
of Ground Level and Aerial Image Data Sambit Bhattacharya
and Anil M. Cheriyadat
Recursive Least
Squares for Echo State Network Damage Compensation Daniel
Dean, Slawomir Nasuto and KevinWarwick
The CREDO
stack: theory to practice in cognitive systems engineering John
Fox
Emerging DimensionWeights
in a Conceptual Spaces Model of Concept Combination
Martha Lewis and Jonathan Lawry
Introduction
Mark Addis, Fernand Gobet, Peter Lane and Peter Sozou
The HR3
Discovery System: Design Decisions and Implementation Details
Simon Colton, Ramin Ramezani and Maria Teresa Llano
Experimental
Logic as a Model of Developement of Mathematical Knowledge
Michał Godziszewski
Robot Scientists:
Automating Biology and Chemistry Ross King
Evolving Process-
Based Models from Psychological Data using Genetic Programming
Peter Lane, Peter Sozou, Mark Addis and Fernand Gobet
Introduction
Jan Degenaar and Kevin O'Regan
Structural
affordances & the embodiment of bodily experience Adrian
Alsmith
The role of sensorimotor
feedback in a brain state transition from passive to active processing
Christopher L. Buckley and Taro Toyoizumi
To be a proper
non-representational theory of perception, the sensorimotor approach must be
a fully non-representational theory of behaviour Martin
Fultot
Searching for
the roots of experience: Early nervous systems and the origins of the animal
sensorimotor organization Fred Keijzer
Attunement,
habits, and knowing what to do Dag Munk Lindemann and
Oliver Kauffmann
Perceptual presence
enacted. Commentary on Seths predictive processing theory of sensorimotor
contingencies Erik Myin, Karim Zahidi and Jan
Degenaar
What is the
brain doing in the sensorimotor theory? J. Kevin O'Regan
and Jan Degenaar
Predictive Perception
of Sensorimotor Contingencies: Explaining perceptual presence and its
absence in synaesthesia Anil Seth
Bilateral mutual
gain control, beamforming, and Being There Nicholas
Wilkinson and Giorgio Metta
The use
of image schemata in psychophysical actor training Maria
Kapsali
The `basic neurological
patterns' in a somatic approach to acting Christiana
Kapadocha
INVITED PAPER:
Embodying Other Minds: Engaging with Autism through Participatory
Performance Nicola Shaughnessy
The language
of embodiment in actor training Ross W. Prior
Stanislavski
and the Perception of Shared Consciousness Grant Olson
Actors' Practice
as Bodily Hermeneutics: score time representation of prosodic features
in actors' speech for comparative analysis Nicole Karakin,
Elaine Chew and Graham White
Designing Phenomenology
for Creative Performance with Technology Colin
G. Johnson
Can cognitive
science resolve Diderot's paradox? David Jackson
The commensurability
of bodies across cultural borders Jane Turner
Towards a
Model for Grounding Semantic Composition Marios Daoutis
and Nikolaos Mavridis
Implications of
the Embodied Language: From Learning in Humans to Multisensory Integration
in Robots Michał B. Paradowski
Introduction Larry Bull
Exploiting
generalisation symmetries in accuracy-based learning classifier systems: An initial
study Larry Bull
A Cognitive
Architecture made of a Bag of Networks AlexanderW.
Churchill and Vera Vasas and Goren Gordon and Chrisantha Fernando
Towards the
Evolution of Vertical-Axis Wind Turbines using Supershapes
Richard J. Preen and Larry Bull
A Review of
Hyper-Heuristic Frameworks Patricia Ryser-Welch and Julian
F. Miller
On the Interaction
between Self-adaptive Mutation and Memetic Learning
J.E. Smith
A Model for
Characterising the Collective Dynamic Behaviour of Evolutionary Algorithms
Mikdam Turkey and Riccardo Poli
NeuroEvolution:
The Importance of Transfer Function Evolution and Heterogeneous Networks
Andrew James Turner and Julian Francis Miller
Introduction
Anna Dumitriu and S Barry Cooper
ICT & ART
Connect: Connecting ICT & Art Communities early outcomes
Camille C. Baker
Art and Computing:
a Marriage Made inMathematics S. Barry Cooper
ICT & Art
Connect: The Future of Art and Computing: Though Intuition, Ingenuity and
Open Consultation Anna Dumitriu and Lucas Evers
From Turing
Machines to Dynamic Networks:the future of computational art systems
Ernest Edmonds
A Model for
Computational Simulation of Intuition Rusins Freivalds
ICT & Art
Connect : Revelations by Flicker, Dreamachines and Electroencephalographic
signals in art Luciana Haill
ICT & Art
Connect: Ministry of Measurement - collecting data as art Geo
Howse
Cellular Forms:
an Artistic Exploration of Morphogenesis Andy Lomas
TURING a
Staged Case History Massimo Marchi, Maria Elisabetta
Marelli and Diego Ronzio
Artistic Intuition
Meets Technical Ingenuity: The Unique Contribution to Digital Art History
of 1960's Computer Art Pioneer, Desmond Paul Henry (1921-2004)
Elaine O'Hanrahan
ICT & Art
Connect: Findings from the Data & Ethics Working Group
Mike Thompson (DEWG), Susana Camara Leret (DEWG) and Lucas
Evers, et al.
The Visual
Language of Contemporary Digital Art and Its Collaborative Aspects on Science
Solvita Zarina
Introduction
Giuseppe Primiero and Liesbeth de Mol
Computational
Hardness of Undecidable Sentences and Algorithmic Learnability
Michał Tomasz Godziszewski
Panini's grammar
is the earliest known computing language John Kadvany
Programming,
Theories and Science: A Retrospective Discussion Martin
Loomes
Technosectarianism:
Applying Religious Metaphors to Programming Stephanie
Stuart Mawler
What can Programming
Language Research Learn from the Philosophy of Science?
Tomas Petricek
Making a place
for programmers Mark Pristley
The Elusive
Low Level Graham White
Introduction
Clara Mancini and Anna Zamansky
Identification
of nesting phase in tortoise populations by neural networks.
Roberto Barbuti, Stefano Chessa, Alessio Micheli and Rita Pucci
Designing smart
toys for the cognitive enrichment of elephants Fiona French,
Clara Mancini, Helen Sharp and Neil Smith
The emergence
of social interaction between Dog and an Unidentified Moving Object (UMO)
Anna Gergely, Eszter Petro, Jozsef Topal2 and Adam Miklosi
Towards Smart
Kennels for Supporting Canine Welfare: an Early Exploration of Requirements
Clara Mancini, Guy Dewsbury, Janet van der Linden, Gerd
Kortuem, Daniel Mills and Nikki Smith
Empowering
Assistance Dogs: An Alarm Interface for Canine Use Charlotte
Robinson, Clara Mancini, Janet van der Linden, Claire Guest and Rob Harris
Extending
Instruments with Live Algorithms in a Percussion / Code Duo
Paul Hession and Alex McLean
Dynamic music
notation in Quantum2 Canticorum Richard Hoadley
The Listening
Machine: Generating Complex Musical Structure from Social Network Communications
Daniel Jones and Peter Gregson
Fundamental
considerations for empirical computational research on improvisation
Adam Linson
Algorithmic
Music As Intelligent Game Music Anthony Prechtl, Robin
Laney, AlistairWillis and Robert Samuels
'The Machine to Be Another': embodiment performance
to promote empathy among individuals Philippe
Bertrand, Daniel Gonzalez-Franco, Christian Cherene and Arthur Pointeau
I wish you were
here not! The future of spatially separated sexual intercourse
Wagner, Matthias and Broll, Wolfgang
Modality Reduction
for Enhancing Human Likeliness Kaiko Kuwamura
and Shuichi Nishio
Kissenger: A
Kiss Messenger Adrian David Cheok, Jordan Tewell and
Swetha S. Bobba
Whats Love
Got to Do With It? Practical and Ethical considerations in fostering attachment
to robotic artifacts Ronald C. Arkin
Sexbots: can
we justify engineering care bots who love too much? Robin
Mackenzie
Sex with Robots:
a Qualitative Study De Bie, Chlo; Enzlin, Paul; Vanderborght,
Bram; Rober, Peter
For the Love
of Artifice Dr. Trudy Barber
Introduction
Mark Coeckelbergh, Steve Torrance and Aimee van Wynsberghe
Toward ethical
intelligent autonomous healthcare agents: a case-supported principle-based
behavior paradigm Michael Anderson and Susan Leigh
Anderson
Ameliorating
Patient-Caregiver Stigma in Early-Stage Parkinsons Disease using Robot co-
Mediators Ronald C. Arkin
Artificial Agents,
Good Care, and Modernity Mark Coeckelbergh
Cognitive and
Assistive Technologies in Care Practice: A View from the Delivery End
Madeline Drake
What asking
potential users about ethical values adds to our understanding of an ethical
framework for social robots for older people Heather Draper,
Tom Sorell, Sandra Bedaf, Christina Gutierrez Ruiz, Hagen Lehmann, Michael
Herve, Gert Jan Gelderblom, Kerstin Dautenhahn and Farshid Amirabdollahian
From decision
support systems to autonomous agents: how can we ensure ethical practice?
John Fox and Omar Khan
Automated
killing and mediated caring: How image-guided robotic intervention rede nes radiosurgical
practice Kathrin Friedrich and Moritz Queisner
The Rights of
Machines - Caring for Robotic Care-Givers David J. Gunkel
Care is in the
Air Artificial Medical Care Agents and Environments of Care
Darian Meacham and Matthew Studley
Moral Coppelia:
Affective moral reasoning with twofold autonomy and a touch of personality
M.A. Pontier, G.A.M. Widdershoven, J.F. Hoorn,
J.L. van Gelder and R.E. de Vries
The Paro seal
robot: demeaning or enabling? Amanda Sharkey and Natalie
Wood
Ethical trust in
the context of robot assisted surgery John P. Sullins
To Delegate or
not to delegate: care robot, moral agency and moral responsibility
Aimee van Wynsberghe
The Ethical
Implications of Non-human Agency in Health Care Blay
Whitby
CALONIS: An
artficial Companion for the care of cognitively impaired patients
Yorick Wilks and Jan Jasiewicz
A Self Adaptive
Architecture for Hand-Tracked 3D Authoring Interface Fabrizio
Nunnari
Full-Body Gait
Reconstruction Using Covariance-Based MappingWithin a Realtime HMM-Based
Framework Joelle Tilmanne, Nicolas d'Alessandro, Thierry
Ravet, Maria Astrinaki and Alexis Moinet
Machine Learning
within Ableton Live Giuseppe Torre
Creativity, Dual
Process Theory, and the Navigation of Music Solution-Space
Robert Tubb
Introduction
Studying
People's Emotional Responses to Robots Movements Julian
M. Angel and Andrea Bonarini
Do Emotions
Matter in the Ethics of Human-Robot Interaction? - Artificial Empathy and
Companion Robots Bert Baumgaertner and AstridWeiss
Pervasive Memory:
the Future of Long-Term Social HRI Lies in the Past Paul
Baxter and Tony Belpaeme
On the Effect
of Operator Modality on Social and Spatial Presence during Teleoperation of a
Human-Like Robot Christian Becker-Asano, Severin Gustor
, Kai O. Arras and Bernhard Nebel
Long-term evaluation
of a social robot in real homes Maartje M.A. de
Graaf, Somaya Ben Allouch and Jan A.G.M. van Dijk
Towards a Performative
Body Mapping Approach Petra Gemeinboeck and
Rob Saunders
Relative importance
of spatial and temporal precision for user satisfaction in human-robot
object handover interactions Ansgar Koene, Anthony Remazeilles,
Miguel Prada, Ainara Garzo, Mildred Puerto, Satoshi Endo and Alan
M. Wing
Mutual Care:
How older adults react when they should help their care robot
Lara Lammer, Andreas Huber, Astrid Weiss and Markus Vincze
Investigating
the Impact of Gender Development in Child-Robot Interaction
Anara Sandygulova, Mauro Dragone and Gregory OHare
A Template
Based User-Teaching System for an Assistive Robot Joe
Saunders, Dag Sverre Syrdal and Kerstin Dautenhahn
How Socially
Assistive Robots Supporting on Cognitive Tasks Perform Sebastian
Schneider, Nina Riether, Ingmar Berger and Franz Kummert
KASPAR in
theWild Initial Findings from a Pilot Study Dag Sverre
Syrdal, Hagen Lehmann, Ben Robins and Kerstin Dautenhahn
Robot-Mediated
Interviews with Children: What do potential users think? L.J.
Wood, H. Lehmann, K. Dautenhahn, B. Robins, A. Rainer and D.S. Syrdal
INVITED
TALK: ABSTRACT ONLY The colour of cognition J. Mark Bishop
Enhancing color
reproduction in InDesign for Packaging Adel M. Khodeir
Spectacular
Spectrum Ajmal Aqtash and Ashley Murphy
The spectrum
of red. Colour names in Portuguese Joao
Paulo Silvestre, Alina Villalva and Paulo Pacheco
Discomfort and
hypermetabolism Arnold J. Wilkins and Paul B. Hibbard
Durer's Rhinoceros
Artists' Approaches to Reproducing Texture in Art Carinna
Parraman
How colour language
is shaped by the variability of reflected light under changes of illumination
Christoph Witzel, Francois Cinotti and J. Kevin
O'Regan
Augmenting
Basic Colour Terms in English Dimitris Mylonas and Lindsay
MacDonald
Colorfulness
and Reflectivity in Daylit Spaces Esther Hagenlocher
The Creation
of a Virtual Colour Course Garth Lewis
William Turner
and Sou Fugimoto: Solidlessness! Joaquim Santos
Color and Aesthetics
in the Oporto Sao Joao Bridge Jorge de Novais
Bastos
The Built Heritage
and Contemporary Colours Jorge de Novais Bastos
"These people
saw in colour, light and shade": capturing colour in the archaeological record
Kate Devlin
Colour and Directionality
in Surface Reflectance Lindsay MacDonald
Colour management
tools in use: the Portuguese case study Miguel
Sanches
Colour associations
in a young adult Indian population Valerie Bonnardel
Nijoo Dubey, Sucharita Beniwal, Mayukhini Pande and Clare Davis
Introduction
Rodger Kibble, Paul Piwek and Geri Popova
Reasoning
with topoi - towards a rhetorical approach to non-monotonicity
Ellen Breitholtz
INVITED TALK:
Languages as mechanisms for interaction
Ruth Kempson
Discourse
as practice: from Bourdieu to Brandom Rodger Kibble
Queries and
Assertions in Minimally Discursive Practices Jared A. Millson
Towards a Computational
Account of Inferentialist Meaning Paul Piwek
A Formal Dialogue
Model for Ontology Authoring Richard Power
Making It Problematic
Stephen Rainey
Logical Omniscience
and Acknowledged vs. Consequential Commitments
Niels Skovgaard Olsen
Towards Natural
Clarification Questions in Dialogue Systems Svetlana
Stoyanchev and Alex Liu and Julia Hirschberg
Cognitive
Benefits in Manic Depressive Illness Magdalena Antrobus
Whose Illness?
Man, Mind, and Mental Illness
Sahon Bhattacharyya and
Asena Paskaleva
Does the Mind
Extend into the World? Rachel Gunn
Relational Autonomy
and Psychiatry
Henrik Levinsson, Margareta Ostman
and Lars Kjellin
Respecting Autistics
and Preventing Autism: Exploring a Tension in the Allocation of Public
Resources Chong-Ming Lim
Thought Insertion,
Ownership, and Affective Framing Michelle Maiese
Talking Therapies:
An Enactive View
Mark McKergow
Mental Healthy
and the Mind/Body "Problem"
Joel Parthemore
Towards an
Enactivist Approach to Social and Emotional Attachment
Dean
Petters
Phenomenology
of Hidden Anxiety in Euphoric Mania Yosuke Taniuchi
Excessive Presence:
A Heideggerian Analysis of the Phenomenology of Tourettes Syndrome
Ben Trubody
Science and
Psychotherapies: Are Tensions Opportunities?
Blay Whitby
Introduction
Raffaela Giovagnoli and Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic
The Quantum
Field Theory (QFT) Dual Paradigm in fundamental Physics and the Semantic
Information Content and Measure in Cognitive Sciences
Gianfranco Basti
Reality construction
through info-computation Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic
Cognition, Information and Subjective Computation
Hector Zenil
Is Morphological
Computation Really Computation? A Conceptual Analysis of the Contributions
of the Body to Cognition and Control
Vincent C.
Muller and Matej Hoffmann
Action without
representation: two perspectives on the mind
Roberta
Lanfredini
Machine Consciousness,
Mind & Consciousness Rajakishore Nath
How different
are the visual representations used for object recognition in middle childhood
and adulthood? Dean Petters, John Hummel, Martin
Juttner, Ellie Wakui and Jules Davido
On the Realism
of Human and Machine Representational Constraints: A Functionalist Account
on Cognitive Ontologies Zarebski David
The relevance
of language for the problem of representation Raffaela Giovagnoli
Introduction
David Silverman
Enactivism
without Autonomy? What went wrong at the roots of enactivism and how
we should recover the autonomous foundations of sensorimotor agency
Xabier Barandiaran
The Normative
Turn in Enactive Theory: An examination of its roots and implications
Nathaniel F. Barrett
Enactive affectivity,
extended Giovanna Colombetti
Sensorimotor
theory and enactivism Jan Degenaar and J. Kevin ORegan
Enriching Radically
Enactive Cognitive Science Daniel D. Hutto
The revolution
will not be optimised: Enactivism, embodiment and relationality
Michael Wheeler