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Sony CSL authors: Verena Hafner, Frédéric Kaplan
Abstract
In this paper, we introduce the concept of “interpersonal maps”. They realize a representation of one’s own body to include the body of one’s peers. In cases of strong couplings between agents, a “we centric” space can emerge in which the agent’s body structure can be directly mapped onto the structure of an observed body. Based on a set of robotic experiments, we argue that this unified representation can help to elucidate both the formation of a body schema and the body correspondence problem.
Type: inproceedings
Keywords: imitiation, body maps, body correspondence problem, aibo
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@INPROCEEDINGS { hafner:05a, ADDRESS="Herderfordshire, UK", AUTHOR="Hafner, V. and Kaplan, F.", BOOKTITLE="Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Imitation in animals and artifacts", EDITOR="Demiris, Y. and Dautenhahn, K. and Nehaniv, C.", PAGES="48--53", TITLE="Interpersonal maps and the body correspondence problem", YEAR="2005", }