Imitation in Animals and Artifacts

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Kerstin Dautenhahn (The University of Hertfordshire) Chrystopher L. Nehaniv (University of Hertfordshire)

Imitation in Animals and Artifacts

Kerstin Dautenhahn (The University of Hertfordshire), Chrystopher L. Nehaniv (University of Hertfordshire)

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Bradford Books
21 June 2002

Learning; Zoology & animal sciences; Computer science

Series: Complex Adaptive Systems

An interdisciplinary overview of current research on imitation in animals and artifacts.

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.

Edited by: Kerstin Dautenhahn (The University of Hertfordshire), Chrystopher L. Nehaniv (University of Hertfordshire)
Imprint: Bradford Books
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 254mm, Width: 178mm, Spine: 38mm
ISBN: 9780262527750
ISBN 10: 0262527758
Series: Complex Adaptive Systems
Pages: 626
Publication Date: 21 June 2002
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Inactive

Kerstin Dautenhahn is co-organizer of the Adaptive Systems Research Group at the University of Hertfordshsire, England. Chrystopher L. Nehaniv is co-organizer of the Adaptive Systems Research Group at the University of Hertfordshsire, England.