Autonomous Development Of Social Referencing Skills

Sofiane Boucenna (1) , P. Gaussier (1) , L. Hafemeister (1) , K. Bard (2)

1 ETIS - UMR 8051 - Equipes Traitement de l'Information et Systèmes
2 Portmouth University

In this work, we are interested in understanding how emo- tional interactions with a social partner can bootstrap increasingly com- plex behaviors such as social referencing. Our idea is that social refer- encing as well as facial expression recognition can emerge from a simple sensori-motor system involving emotional stimuli. Without knowing that the other is an agent, the robot is able to learn some complex tasks if the human partner has some “empathy” or at least “resonate” with the robot head (low level emotional resonance). Hence we advocate the idea that social referencing can be bootstrapped from a simple sensori-motor system not dedicated to social interactions.

Domaines: Intelligence artificielle [cs.AI]

Sofiane Boucenna, P. Gaussier, L. Hafemeister, K. Bard. Autonomous Development Of Social Referencing Skills. SAB, 2010, France. ⟨hal-00522763⟩