@article{1387258,
      recid = {1387258},
      author = {Nehaniv, Chrystopher L., and Dautenhahn, Kerstin.},
      title = {Imitation in animals and artifacts /},
      publisher = {MIT Press,},
      address = {Cambridge, Mass. :},
      pages = {1 online resource (xv, 607 pages) :},
      year = {2002},
      note = {"A Bradford book."},
      abstract = {The effort to explain the imitative abilities of humans  and other animals draws on fields as diverse as animal  behavior, artificial intelligence, computer science,  comparative psychology, neuroscience, primatology, and  linguistics. This volume represents a first step toward  integrating research from those studying imitation in  humans and other animals, and those studying imitation  through the construction of computer software and robots.  Imitation is of particular importance in enabling robotic  or software agents to share skills without the intervention  of a programmer and in the more general context of  interaction and collaboration between software agents and  humans. Imitation provides a way for the agent -- -whether  biological or artificial--to establish a "social  relationship" and learn about the demonstrator's actions,  in order to include them in its own behavioral repertoire.  Building robots and software agents that can imitate other  artificial or human agents in an appropriate way involves  complex problems of perception, experience, context, and  action, solved in nature in various ways by animals that  imitate.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1387258},
}