creators_name: Blanchard, Arnaud J. creators_name: Canamero, Lola editors_name: Berthouze, Luc editors_name: Kaplan, Frédéric editors_name: Kozima, Hideki editors_name: Yano, Hiroyuki editors_name: Konczak, Jürgen editors_name: Metta, Giorgio editors_name: Nadel, Jacqueline editors_name: Sandini, Giulio editors_name: Stojanov, Georgi editors_name: Balkenius, Christian type: confpaper datestamp: 2006-07-16 lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:56:28 metadata_visibility: show title: From Imprinting to Adaptation: Building a History of Affective Interaction ispublished: pub subjects: dev-psy subjects: comp-sci-mach-learn subjects: comp-sci-robot full_text_status: public keywords: caregiver imprinting, affective interaction, perceptual learning, developmental robotics abstract: 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. date: 2005 date_type: published volume: 123 publisher: Lund University Cognitive Studies pagerange: 23-30 refereed: TRUE citation: Blanchard, Arnaud J. and Canamero, Lola (2005) From Imprinting to Adaptation: Building a History of Affective Interaction. [Conference Paper] document_url: http://cogprints.org/4939/1/blanchard.pdf