Call For Contributions

ICDL is a unique conference gathering researchers from computer science, robotics, psychology and developmental studies to share knowledge and research on how humans and animals develop sensing, reasoning and actions. This includes taking advantage of interaction with social and physical environments and how cognitive and developmental capabilities can be transferred to computing systems and robotics. This approach goes hand in hand with the goals of both understanding human and animal development and applying this knowledge to improve future intelligent technology, including for robots that will be in close interaction with humans.

The primary list of topics of interest include, but not limited to:

• principles and theories of development and learning;
• development of skills in biological systems and robots;
• nature vs nurture, developmental stages;
• models on the contributions of interaction to learning;
• non-verbal and multi-modal interaction;
• models on active learning;
• architectures for lifelong learning;
• emergence of body and affordance perception;
• analysis and modelling of human motion and state;
• models for prediction, planning and problem solving;
• models of human-human and human-robot interaction;
• emergence of verbal and non-verbal communication;
• epistemological foundations and philosophical issues;
• robot prototyping of human and animal skills;
• ethics and trust in computational intelligence and robotics;
• social learning in humans, animals, and robots.

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Important Dates

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Call for Journal Track

The program committee of the 10th IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL) invites published journal articles to be presented in the Journal Track of ICDL.

The Journal Track is designed to provide a forum to discuss important results related to cognitive and developmental systems recently published as journal articles, but have not been previously presented as conference papers. Thus, the journal track offers an opportunity to present outstanding results that might otherwise not be submitted to a conference due to their length and complexity.

All accepted journal presentations will be selected for either oral or poster presentation during the conference based on the reviews – at least one author is expected to register to ICDL 2020 and to present the paper in person.

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Call for Tutorials

We invite experts to give Tutorials, which will provide insights into specific topics through hands-on training and interactive experiences or in-depth state of the art review.

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Call for Workshops

We invite experts in different areas to organise a workshop to be held on the first day of the conference. Workshops will extend to a half or full day and could include invited speakers, discussions with a smaller community, and independent submissions.

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