Sessions
Day 1 (Jan. 23)
1. Cognitive Robotics
2. Bio-Robotics
3. Technology and Society
Day 2 (Jan. 24)
4. Dynamical Systems
5. Emerging Robotics
6. Posters
7. Self-Recognition
Day 3 (Jan. 25)
8. NeurobehavioralDevelopment
9. Neuro-Robotics
10. Human-Robot
Interaction

Invited Speakers(Alphabetical order)

Oliver Brock (TU Berlin)
Paolo Dario(Sant’Anna Sch. of Adv. Stud.)Peter Ford Dominey(CNRS-INSERM)

Monica Gori

(Italian Inst. of Tech.)

Tatsuhiko Inatani(Kyoto Univ.)

Julian Paul Keenan(Montclair State Univ.)

Cecilia Laschi(Sant’Anna Sch. of Adv. Stud.)

Matthew Mail (CELLINK)
Phillip Morgan(Cardiff Univ.)

Karina Quevedo(Univ. of Minnesota)

Francesco Rea(Italian Inst. of Tech.)Helge Ritter (Bielefeld Univ.)
Giulio Sandini(Italian Institute of Tech.)Bulcsú Sándor
(Babes-Bolyai Univ.)

Alessandra Sciutti(Italian Inst. of Tech.)Žiga Škorjanc (Univ. of Vienna)
Emmanuelle Tognoli(Florida Atlantic Univ.)

Ichiro Tsuda (Chubu Univ.)

January 23 – 25

Program for Day 1 10:00 – 17:30, January 23
9:30 –

Site Open

Opening Remarks
10:00 – 10:05 Yasushi Yagi
(Vice President of Osaka University)

10:05 – 10:15 Minoru Asada (Osaka University)

Session 1: Cognitive Robotics
10:15 – 11:00 Hiroshi Ishiguro (Osaka University)“Research Activities in Symbiotic Intelligent
Systems Research Center”
11:00 – 11:45 Giulio Sandini (Italian Institute of Technology)“Human-Robot Symbiotic Relationship: How much Anthropomorphism?”
11:45 – 13:00 Lunch break

Session 2: Bio-Robotics
13:00 – 13:45 Paolo Dario (Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies)“Frontiers of BioRobotics Science and Engineering”
13:45 – 14:30 Cecilia Laschi(Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies)“The Strength of Being Soft: Lessons from Naturefor Soft Robots”
14:30 – 15:00 Matthew Mail (CELLINK)“Bioinks for 3D Bioprinting of Biomimetic Tissue Models”
15:00 – 15:15 Coffee break

Session 3: Technology and Society
15:15 – 16:00 Tatsuhiko Inatani (Kyoto University)“Regulating the AI Industry through Prosecution”
16:00 – 16:45 Žiga Škorjanc (University of Vienna)“EU Data Protection Law in the Age ofDigitalisation ”
16:45 – 17:30 Phillip Morgan (Cardiff University)“The Driverless Human Factor: User Needs andExperience in the Design and Testing of High to
Fully Autonomous Vehicle Technology”

Program for Day 2 10:00 – 17:30, January 24
9:30 –Site Open

Session 4: Dynamical Systems
10:00 – 10:45 Ichiro Tsuda (Chubu University)“Emerging Interactions Yielding Functional
Differentiation”
10:45 – 11:30 Emmanuelle Tognoli (Florida Atlantic University)“Building Neurotechnological Complexity from the Ground up”
11:30 – 13:00 Lunch break

Session 5: Emerging Robotics
13:15 – 14:00 Oliver Brock (Technische Universität Berlin)“Science of Intelligence: Uniting the Study of Naturaland Artificial Intelligence”
14:00 – 14:45 Helge Ritter (Bielefeld University)“New Vistas for Cognitive Interaction Science:Robotics, AI and Big Data”

Session 6: Posters
14:30 – 16:00 Poster Presentation

Session 7: Self-Recognition
16:00 – 16:45 Julian Paul Keenan (Montclair State University)“Self-Recognition and the Brain”
16:45 – 17:30 Peter Ford Dominey (CNRS-INSERM)“Narrative Structuring of Symbiotic Experience ”
18:00 –Banquet

Program for Day 3 10:00 – 17:30, January 25
9:30 –Site OpenSession 8: Neurobehavioral Development
10:00 – 10:40 Karina Quevedo (University of Minnesota)“The Neural Basis of Self-Other Processing in
Depressed Adolescents”
10:40 – 11:20 Monica Gori (Italian Institute of Technology)“Spatial and Temporal Cross-Sensory Calibration
Typical and Impaired Children and Adults”
11:20 – 12:00 Tomoyo Morita (Osaka University)“Development of Functional Lateralization in theHuman Brain”
12:00 – 13:30 Lunch break

Session 9: Neuro-Robotics
13:30 – 14:10 Bulcsú Sándor (Babes-Bolyai University)“Interactive Robots as Multistable DynamicalSystems”
14:10 – 14:50 Yuji Kawai (Osaka University)“Body-Brain Interactions for Emergent Behavior”
14:50 – 15:20 Coffee break

Session 10: Human-Robot Interaction
15:20 – 16:00 Francesco Rea (Italian Institute of Technology)“VisualAudio Attention for Human-Robot Interaction”
16:00 – 16:40 Alessandra Sciutti (Italian Institute of Technology)“Intuitive Understanding between Humans and Robots”

Closing Remarks
16:40 – 16:50 Minoru Asada (Osaka University)
18:00 –Farewell party

Poster List 14:30 – 16:00, January 24
1. Yuta Okumura, Naoki Wakamiya (Osaka Univ.)“Consideration on Structural Property for Robust
Liquid State Machine against Structure Defects”
2. Oskar Palinko, Kohei Ogawa, Yuichiro Yoshikawa,Hiroshi Ishiguro (Osaka Univ.)“How Should a Social Robot Facilitate theCommunication between Multiple People”

10. Atsuya Sakata, Yasushi Makihara, Noriko Takemura,Daigo Muramatsu, Yasushi Yagi (Osaka Univ.)“Gait-based Age Estimation using a DenseNet”
11. Tsuyoshi Tatsukawa1, Jun-nosuke Teramae2, Naoki
Wakamiya1 (1Osaka Univ., 2Kyoto Univ.)“Validity of the Flat Minima Approach to UnderstandGeneralization of Deep Learning”

3. Hamed Mahzoon1, Kohei Ogawa1, Yuichiro
Yoshikawa1, Michiko Tanaka2, Kento Ogawa2,Ryouta Miyazaki2, Yusaku Ota2, Hiroshi Ishiguro1(1Osaka Univ., 2Panasonic Corp.)

12. Beltran Cristian, Petit Damien, Ramirez Ixchel,Harada Kensuke (Osaka Univ.)“Sociability for Better Evaluation: Robot with Selfrepresentation of Sociability Improves Perceived
Mind Perception and Positive Relation byInteracting Human”

13. Daniel Oliva1, Anja Philippsen2, Yukie Nagai2(1TU Munich, 2NICT)

4. Futa Tomita1, Jun-nosuke Teramae2, Naoki
Wakamiya1 (1Osaka Univ., 2Kyoto Univ.)“Biologically Plausible Learning Method withMinimizing Gap of Local Energy in Asymmetric
Neural Network”
5. Kyoichiro Kobayashi1, Takato Horii2,3, Ryo Iwaki1,Yukie Nagai2, Minoru Asada1 (1Osaka Univ.,
2NICT, 3The Univ. of Electro-Communications)“Situated GAIL: Multi-Task Imitation Using LatentConditioned Adversarial Inverse Reinforcement
Learning”
6. Takato Horii1,2, Yukie Nagai2(1The Univ. of Electro-Communications, 2NICT)“Attention Control Based on Free-Energy
Minimization in Multimodal Interaction withFamiliar Friends”
7. Masaya Iwasaki1, Zhou Jian1, Yuki Koike1, YuyaOnishi1, Tatsuyuki Kawamura2, Hideyuki Nakanishi1(1Osaka Univ., 2Kyoto Innovation Inc.)“Appropriate Timing of a Robot's Talk Enhances
its Social Presence”
8. Tomonori Kubota, Kohei Ogawa, Yuichiro Yoshikawa,
Hiroshi Ishiguro (Osaka Univ.)“An Attitude of a Teleoperator Manipulating a Part ofan Android’s Body Gets Close to an Attitude theAndroid Autonomously Expresses”
9. Jihoon Park, Yuji Kawai, Minoru Asada (Osaka Univ.)“Self-organization of a Network Structure andEmergence of Behaviors under Body Constraints inthe Embodied System”“Learning to Grasp with Primitive Shaped Objects”“Trajectory Recognition Using a Bayesian Inference
Recurrent Neural Network Model”
14. Jiao Yongcheng, Yutaka Nakamura, Hiroshi Ishiguro(Osaka Univ.)“A Semi-Supervised Algorithm for Interaction Motion
Recognition And Its Application on First-Person
View Video”
15. Zhengtao Hu, Weiwei Wan, Kensuke Harada(Osaka Univ.)“Designing a Mechanical Tool for 2-Finger Robotic
Grippers”
16. Kazuki Sakai, Yutaka Nakamura, Yuichiro Yoshikawa,
Shingo Kano, Hiroshi Ishiguro (Osaka Univ.)“Development of Question and Answer Type Dialogue
System Where Robot Estimates User’s Preferences”
17. Jiro Shimaya1, Yuichiro Yoshikawa1, Hirokazu
Kumazaki2, Yoshio Matsumoto3, Masutomo Miyao4,
Hiroshi Ishiguro1 (1Osaka Univ., 2Kanazawa Univ.,
3AIST, 4Donguri Psycho Developmental Clinic)“Can a Robot Be an Easier Conversation Partner ofAdolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder? - Case
Study of a Daily-life-guidance via a Tele-operated
Small Desktop Humanoid Robot”
18. Takao Mizuno, Yusuke Sugano, and Yasuyuki
Matsushita (Osaka Univ.)“Multi-task Learning for Semantic Segmentation”
19. Graham Peebles (Osaka Univ.)“The Meta Problem of Consciousness: Is There a HardProblem?”
20. Alexis Meneses, Yuichiro Yoshikawa, Hiroshi Ishiguro(Osaka Univ.)“Multiple Robots System for More Synchronizing
Human-Robot Interaction”

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Open and Transdisciplinary Research Initiatives, Osaka University
The Symbiotic Intelligent Systems ResearchCenter (SISReC) aims to build a future robot
society, in which robots assist people inactivities of daily living, as a successor to thecontemporary information society. Interactive
robots in particular are also regarded to beimportant as a next-generation information
media device. Robot and media technologies
are necessary for compensating for thequality of life (QOL) of people living in the lowbirthrate and hyper-aging society of Japan.
In addressing problems of the hyper-aging
society of Japan, Osaka University has
started studying and developing interactive
robots ahead of other research universities
and institutes in the world, and it has founded
and played a leading role in a new field in
robotics, Interaction. Intelligent systems,
primarily including interactive robots, are not

only practically useful in providing social
services for human beings but also
theoretically important for offering a newresearch methodology for investigating
engagement between human beings androbots.
The mission of the Center is to develop asociety in which human beings and robots
cohabit. The Center will realize this mission
in the following way: by developing new
intelligent systems (including intelligentrobots) as a means to study the macro-level
functions and properties of human beings andtheir societies, and more concretely, toconduct social-experimental studies forpursuing the fundamental problems of humanbeings, such as intelligence, embodiment,
multi-modalintegration,intention/desire,consciousness, and social relationshipResearch Overview in SISReC
The Center comprises five, closely interacting
research groups, as is illustrated in the figure
below:I.

the intelligent robotics group aims to builda model of and constructively understandhuman beings and to develop humanlike
androids and partner robots capable ofamicably engaging with human beings;
II. thecognitive
andneuro-sciencegroup aims to pursue fundamental
problems
concerning
intelligence,embodiment, etc. by using developed
intelligent
robotsandinformationsystems;
III. the sensing research group aims tomeasure and analyze complex socialrelationships among intelligent systems
including human beings and robots;
IV. the information network group aims todevelop tools for social-experimentalstudies
ofsuchcomplexsocialrelationships among intelligent systems;
andV. the sociology, ethics, and philosophy
group aims to study the mutualrelationships among human beings,societies, and technologies.

The intelligent robotics group, in cooperation
with the cognitive and neuro-science group,
will adopt a constructive approach—i.e., use
robot
models ofhuman beings—tofundamental problems concerning intelligence,
body, embodiment, multi-modal integration,
intention/desire, consciousness, sociality, etc.
by using intelligent robots and information
systems. The intelligent robotics group is
supported by the sensing research andinformation network research groups.
In pursuing fundamental problems concerning
human beings and societies, they will expand
experimental environments to the real world
and test the functions of intelligent systems inreal-world experiments on the campuses ofOsaka University and in the city of Osaka.
The sociology, ethics, and philosophy groupwill place the observations and experiments
they conduct in cooperation with the otherresearch groups in social contexts, andaddress potential problems in the society inwhich human beings and robots cohabit.