TY - CONF T1 - From Imprinting to Adaptation: Building a History of Affective Interaction T2 - Fifth International Workshop on Epigenetic Robotics: Modeling Cognitive Development in Robotic Systems (EpiRob2005) Y1 - 2005 A1 - Arnaud J Blanchard A1 - Lola Cañamero ED - Luc Berthouze ED - Frédéric Kaplan ED - Hideki Kozima ED - Hiroyuki Yano ED - Jürgen Konczak ED - Giorgio Metta ED - Jacqueline Nadel ED - Giulio Sandini ED - Georgi Stojanov ED - Christian Balkenius AB - 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. JF - Fifth International Workshop on Epigenetic Robotics: Modeling Cognitive Development in Robotic Systems (EpiRob2005) PB - Lund University Cognitive Studies SN - 91-974741-4-2 ER -