Imitation in animals and artifacts / edited by Kerstin Dautenhahn and Chrystopher L. Nehaniv.
2002
BF357 .I47 2002eb
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Title
Imitation in animals and artifacts / edited by Kerstin Dautenhahn and Chrystopher L. Nehaniv.
ISBN
9780262271219 (electronic bk.)
0262271214 (electronic bk.)
0585436800 (electronic bk.)
9780585436807 (electronic bk.)
9780262042031
0262042037 (Trade Cloth)
0262527758
9780262527750
0262271214 (electronic bk.)
0585436800 (electronic bk.)
9780585436807 (electronic bk.)
9780262042031
0262042037 (Trade Cloth)
0262527758
9780262527750
Publication Details
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2002.
Copyright
©2002
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xv, 607 pages) : illustrations.
Call Number
BF357 .I47 2002eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
591.5/14
Summary
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.
Note
"A Bradford book."
Papers presented at a meeting held in Edinburgh, Scotland, Apr. 7-9, 1999.
Papers presented at a meeting held in Edinburgh, Scotland, Apr. 7-9, 1999.
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Nehaniv, Chrystopher L., 1963-
Dautenhahn, Kerstin.
Dautenhahn, Kerstin.
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