title: From Imprinting to Adaptation: Building a History of Affective Interaction creator: Blanchard, Arnaud J. creator: Canamero, Lola subject: Developmental Psychology subject: Machine Learning subject: Robotics description: We present a Perception-Action architecture and experiments to simulate imprinting—the establishment of strong attachment links with a “caregiver”—in a robot. Following recent theories, we do not consider imprinting as rigidly timed and irreversible, but as a more flexible phenomenon that allows for further adaptation as a result of reward-based learning through experience. Our architecture reconciles these two types of perceptual learning traditionally considered as different and even incompatible. After the initial imprinting, adaptation is achieved in the context of a history of “affective” interactions between the robot and a human, driven by “distress” and “comfort” responses in the robot. publisher: Lund University Cognitive Studies contributor: Berthouze, Luc contributor: Kaplan, Frédéric contributor: Kozima, Hideki contributor: Yano, Hiroyuki contributor: Konczak, Jürgen contributor: Metta, Giorgio contributor: Nadel, Jacqueline contributor: Sandini, Giulio contributor: Stojanov, Georgi contributor: Balkenius, Christian date: 2005 type: Conference Paper type: PeerReviewed format: application/pdf identifier: http://cogprints.org/4939/1/blanchard.pdf identifier: Blanchard, Arnaud J. and Canamero, Lola (2005) From Imprinting to Adaptation: Building a History of Affective Interaction. [Conference Paper] relation: http://cogprints.org/4939/