Name: Karl MacDorman
Member since: 2005-07-13 03:35:24
Last Login: 2008-08-05 04:37:28

Homepage: http://www.androidscience.org

Notes: Karl F. MacDorman Department of Adaptive Machine Systems, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka 565-078 Japan

Research Interests

Android science; machine learning; social robotics; sensorimotor representation; symbol grounding and symbol emergence; computational neuroscience; computer security

Education

1992 - 1996 Ph.D., Computer Science University of Cambridge

1985 - 1988 B.A., Computer Science University of California, Berkeley

Current position 7/2003 - Associate Professor Department of Adaptive Machine Systems, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University Publications (several recent ones are not listed)

Refereed Journal Papers

MacDorman, K. F., Nobuta, H., Koizumi, S. & Ishiguro, H. (submitted). Memory-based attention control in a distributed vision system that recognizes group activity at a subway station. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics Part B. MacDorman, K. F. (2004). Extending the medium hypothesis: The Dennett-Mangan controversy and beyond. The Journal of Mind and Behavior, 25(3), 237-257. Oyama, E., Maeda, T. Tachi, S., MacDorman, K. F., & Agah, A. (2002). On the use of forward kinematic models in visually guided hand position control: Analysis based on ISLES model. Neurocomputing, 44-46, 965-972. (Also in J.M. Bower (Ed.), Computational Neuroscience: Trends in Research 2002. New York: Elsevier.) Oyama, E., MacDorman, K., Maeda, T., Tachi, S., & Agah, A. (2002). A New Model of the Visual Feedback Coordinate Transformation in Humans Based on Disturbance Noise and Feedback Error that Accounts for Time Delays. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems. September 30 - October 4, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, Vol. 2, 950-957. Asada, M., MacDorman, K.F., Ishiguro, H. & Kuniyoshi, Y. (2001) Cognitive developmental robotics as a new paradigm for the design of humanoid robots. Robotics and Automation, 37, 185-193. Oyama, E., MacDorman, K. F., Agah, A., Maeda, T. & Tachi, S. (2001). Coordinate transformation learning of a hand position feedback controller with time delay. Neurocomputing, 38-40(1-4), pp. 1503-1509. Oyama, E., Agah, A., MacDorman, K. F. , Maeda, T. & Tachi, S. (2001). A modular neural network architecture for inverse kinematics model learning. Neurocomputing, 38-40(1- 4), pp. 797-805. Cowley, S. J. & MacDorman, K. F. (1995). Simulating conversations: The communion game. AI & Society, 9(3), 116- 137. Sommerhoff, G. & MacDorman, K. F. (1994). An account of consciousness in physical and functional terms: A target for research in the neurosciences. Integrative Physiological and Behavioral Science, 29(2), 151-181. Invited Journal Papers

MacDorman, K. F. (1999). Grounding symbols through sensorimotor integration. Journal of the Robotics Society of Japan, 17(1), 20-24. Nakamura, T., Sato, T., Kuniyoshi, Y., Hiraki, K., Shibata, T., Asada, M., MacDorman, K. F. & Tani, J. (1999). Why is cognitive robotics promising- Journal of the Robotics Society of Japan, 17(1), 38-43. (in Japanese) Refereed Journal Commentaries

MacDorman, K. F. (1998). Feature learning, multiresolution analysis, and symbol grounding: A peer commentary on Schyns, Goldstone, and Thibaut's `The development of features in object concepts.' Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 21(1), 32-33. MacDorman, K. F. (1997). Memory must also mesh affect: A peer commentary on Glenberg's `What memory is for.' Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 20(1), 29. Refereed Conference Papers

MacDorman, K. F., Minato, T., Shimada, M., Itakura, S., Cowley, S. & Ishiguro, H. (submitted). Assessing human likeness by eye contact in an android testbed. Proceedings of the XXVII Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Matsui, D., Minato, T., MacDorman, K. & Ishiguro, H. (submitted). Generating natural motion in an android by mapping human motion. Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems. MacDorman, K. F., Minato, T., Shimada, M., Itakura, S., Cowley, S. & Ishiguro, H. (accepted). Humanity is in the gaze of the beholder: Experiments with androids and people. Proceedings of the Second Conference of the International Society for Gesture Studies. (Abstract only) MacDorman, K. F., Chalodhorn, R. & Ishiguro, H. (2004). Learning to recognize and reproduce abstract actions from proprioception. Third International Conference on Development and Learning: Developing Social Brains. October 20-22, 2004. La Jolla, California. Chalodhorn, R., MacDorman, K. F. & Asada, M. (2004). Automatic extraction of abstract actions from humanoid motion data. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems. September 28-October 2, 2004. Sendai, Japan. MacDorman, K., Nobuta, H., Ikeda, T., Koizumi, S. & Ishiguro, H. (2004). A memory-based distributed vision system that employs a form of attention to recognize group activity at a subway station. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems. September 28- October 2, 2004. Sendai, Japan. MacDorman, K. Nobuta, H., Minato, T. & Ishiguro, H. (2004). Memory-based recognition of human behavior based on sensory data of high dimensionality. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems. September 28-October 2, 2004. Sendai, Japan. MacDorman, K. F., Chalodhorn, R., Ishiguro, H. & Asada, M. (2004). Protosymbols that integrate recognition and response. Fourth International Workshop on Epigenetic Robotics. August 25-27, 2004. Genoa, Italy. MacDorman, K. F., Chalodhorn, R. & Asada, M. (2004). Periodic nonlinear principal component neural networks for humanoid motion segmentation, generalization, and generation. Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Conference on Pattern Recognition. August 23-26, 2004. Cambridge, UK. Chalodhorn, R., MacDorman, K. F. & Asada, M. (2004). An algorithm that recognizes and reproduces distinct types of humanoid motion based on periodically-constrained nonlinear PCA. Proceedings of the Eighth RoboCup International Symposium. July 5-7, 2004. Lisbon, Portugal. MacDorman, K. F., Tatani, K., Miyazaki, Y., Koeda, M. & Nakamura, Y. (2001). Protosymbol emergence based on embodiment: Robot experiments. ICRA 2001: Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, May 21-26, Seoul National University, Korea. Oyama, E., Chong, N. Y., Agah, A., Maeda, T., Tachi, S. & MacDorman, K. F. (2001). Learning a coordinate transformation for a human visual feedback controller based on disturbance noise and the feedback error signal. ICRA 2001: Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, May 21-26, Seoul National University, Korea. MacDorman, K. F., Tatani, K., Miyazaki, Y. & Koeda, M. (2000). Proto-symbol emergence. Proceedings of IROS-2000: IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, October 30 - November 5, Kagawa University, Takamatsu, Japan. Asada, M., MacDorman, K. F., Ishiguro, H. & Kuniyoshi, Y. (2000). Cognitive developmental robotics as a new paradigm for the design of humanoid robots. Humanoids 2000: Proceedings of the First IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, September 7-8, MIT, Cambridge, MA. MacDorman, K. F., Tatani, K. & Nakamura, Y. (2000). Emergence of Primitive symbols from robot dynamics. Proceedings of the 18th Annual Conference of the Robotics Society of Japan, September 12-14, 2000, Ritsumeikan University, Kusatsu. (in Japanese) MacDorman, K. F. (2000). Responding to affordances. Proceedings of ICRA-2000: IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, April 24-28, San Francisco, California. MacDorman, K. F. (1999). Partition nets: An efficient on- line learning algorithm. Proceedings of ICAR-99: Ninth International Conference on Advanced Robotics, October 25- 27, Tokyo, pp. 529-535. MacDorman, K. F. (1999). Heuristics for projecting of a sensorimotor mapping. Proceedings of ISR-99: 30th International Symposium on Robotics, October 27-29, Tokyo, pp. 169-176. Tatani, K. & MacDorman, K. F. (1999). Planning to learn versus learning to plan. Proceedings of the 17th Annual Conference of the Robotics Society of Japan, September 9- 11, 1999, Tokai University, Hiratsuka. (in Japanese) Mitsuda, T., Miyazaki, Y., Maru, N., MacDorman, K. F., Nishikawa, A. & Miyazaki, F. (1999). Visual servoing based on coarse optical flow. Proceedings of the Fourteenth IFAC World Congress, Beijing. Mitsuda, T., Miyazaki, Y., Maru, N., MacDorman, K. F. & Miyazaki, F. (1998). Precise planar positioning using visual servoing based on coarse optical flow. Proceedings of the 1998 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, vol. 2, pp. 712-717. MacDorman, K. F. & Miyazaki, Y. (1998). Robots that recognize affordances: A predictive approach. Proceedings of the 16th Annual Conference of the Robotics Society of Japan (vol. 2), September 18-20, 1998, Hokkaido University, pp. 901-2. Nakawaki, D., Cisek, R., MacDorman, K. F., Joo, S. & Miyazaki, F. (1998). Coaching information determined from dynamic modeling based on a total energy analysis. Proceedings of the 16th Annual Conference of the Robotics Society of Japan (vol. 1), September 18-20, 1998, Hokkaido University, pp. 45-6. MacDorman, K. F. (1995). How to ground symbols adaptively: A preliminary report. Reaching for Mind: Foundations of Cognitive Science, AISB-95: Tenth Biennial Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science, Sheffield, UK. Invited, Workshop, and Other Papers

MacDorman, K. F. & Ishiguro, H. (2004). The study of interaction through the development of androids. Computer Vision and Image Processing Workshop, Information Processing Society of Japan, SIG Technical Reports 2004- CVIM-146 (pp. 69-75), 2004(113). November 11-12, 2004. Tokyo, Japan. Minato, T., MacDorman, K. F., Shimada, M., Itakura, S., Lee, K. & Ishiguro, H. (2004). Evaluating humanlikeness by comparing responses elicited by an android and a person, Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Man- Machine Symbiotic Systems (pp. 373-383). November 23-24, 2004. Kyoto, Japan. Matsui, D., Minato, T., MacDorman, K. F. & Ishiguro, K. (2004). Generating an android's humanlike motion by mapping from human motion. Proceedings of the Information Processing Society of Japan, Kansai Branch, October, 2004, pp.97-100. (In Japanese) MacDorman, K. F. (2003). Pattern recognition and intelligent systems: Partition networks, Proceedings of the Conference of the Information Processing Society, Kansai Branch, pp. 87-92. (In Japanese) MacDorman, K. F. (1997). A path to symbol-grounded robots. Meiji University International Exchange Programs Guest Lecture Series, 2. Center for International Programs, Meiji University. Book Chapters

Chalodhorn, R., MacDorman, K. F. & Asada, M. (2004). An algorithm that recognizes and reproduces distinct types of humanoid motion based on periodically-constrained nonlinear PCA. In D. Nardi, M. Riedmiller, C. Sammut, & J. Santos-Victor, RoboCup 2004: Robot Soccer World Cup VIII (Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 3276). Berlin: Springer. MacDorman, K. F. (1997). How to ground symbols adaptively. In S. O'Nuallain, P. McKevitt & E. MacAogain (Eds.), Readings in computation, content and consciousness. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Technical Reports MacDorman, K. F. (1997). Symbol grounding: Learning categorical and sensorimotor predictions for coordination in autonomous robots. Technical Report No. 423. Computer Laboratory, Cambridge (e-mail librarian@cl.cam.ac.uk). Posters MacDorman, K. F. (2004). What gunfilling inh says about the nature of representation in the brain. Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Emergent Mechanisms of Communication in the Brain. March 2004. Awaji Yumebutai, Japan. Marubayashi, N, & MacDorman, K. F. (2004). Inquiry into the mechanism of symbol emergence based on affect and its robotic implementation. Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Emergent Mechanisms of Communication in the Brain. March 2004. Awaji Yumebutai, Japan. Courses Recently Taught

Neuroscience Fundamentals for Machine Intelligence (Fall 2004, with Minoru Asada) Machine Learning for the Development of Intelligent Machines (Spring 2004) Machine Learning with Robotics Applications (Fall 1997, 1998, 1999) Artificial Intelligence for the World Wide Web (Spring 1998, 1999, 2000) Neural Networks, Self-Organization, and Artificial Intelligence (Spring 1999, 2000)

Grants

4/2004 - 3/2007 US$450,000 (48,000,000 yen, 4 researchers, Principal Investigator: Hiroshi Ishiguro) Basic Research (Kiban A), Japanese Ministry of Education 1/2001 - 12/2003 US$440,000 (Principal Investigator: Karl F. MacDorman) Scientific Research & Experimental Development, Government of Canada 4/1998 - 4/2003 US$100,000 Robot Brain Project, Japan Science and Technology Corp. 4/2000 - 4/2002 US$45,000 Encouragement of Scientists (Shourei Kenkyu), Japanese Ministry of Education 7/1997 - 8/2000 US$30,000 Government Grant (Kouhi), Japanese Ministry of Education

Research Supervised

Max Mandelbaum, Research Assistant, 7/2004 - 6/2005 Junpeng Gong, M.Eng., 2006 (Expected) Daisuke Matsui, B.Eng., 2005 Tetsuya Manabe, Ph.D., 1999, Learning Control Algorithms in the Frequency Domain and Their Industrial Applications Yoji Miyazaki, M.S., 2000 Koji Tatani, M.S., 2001, B.S., 1999 Masanao Koeda, B.S., 2000

Honors

1992 - 1995 Scholar, American Friends of Cambridge University 1992 - 1995 Awardee, Overseas Research Student Award 1992 - 1995 Awardee, Cambridge Overseas Trust 1991 Honorable Mention, National Science Foundation 1999 Marquis Who's Who in the World (16th ed.) 1999 Dictionary of International Biography (28th ed.)

Learned Societies

1991 - Fellow, Cambridge Philosophical Society 2000 - Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers 2000 - Member, IEEE Computer Society 2000 - Member, IEEE Communications Society 2005 - Member, Association for Computing Machinery 1995 - 2002 Member, Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour 1995 - 2002 Member, Institute of Electrical Engineers 1996 - 2000 Research Fellow, Toho Institute, Tokyo 1997 - 2000 Member, Robotics Society of Japan 1997 - 2002 Member, Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness 1997 - 1999 Member, Organizer, Future Robotics Symposia 1997 - 2000 Founder, Organizer, Kansai Open Colloquium on Cognitive Robotics 2000 - 2003 Member, Sociointelligenisis Symposia 1987 - 1988 Member, University of California Society of Electrical Engineers 1992 - 1995 Member, Cambridge University Cognitive Science Society

Professional Service

1996 - Associate, Reviewer, Behavioral and Brain Sciences 1997 Reviewer, AI & Society 1999 Reviewer, Connection Science 1999 Reviewer, New Generation Computing 2002 Reviewer, Program Committee, The Second International Workshop on Epigenetic Robotics 2003 Reviewer, The International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2004 Reviewer, Neural Computation 2005 Program Committee, International Conference on Development and Learning 2005 Program Committee, Robotics: Science and Systems Conference 2005 Organizer, CogSci 2005 Workshop: Toward Social Mechanisms of Android Science

 

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