A probabilistic model of gaze imitation and shared attention

Neural Networks

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 299-310

  Hoffman, Matthew W ^a   Grimes, David B ^a   Shon, Aaron P ^a   Rao, Rajesh P N ^a  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

Author keywords

Gaze tracking; Human robot interaction; Imitation learning; Shared attention

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILISTIC LOGICS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; ROBOTICS;

GAZE TRACKING; HUMAN-ROBOT INTERACTION; IMITATION LEARNING; SHARED ATTENTION;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BAYES THEOREM; GAZE; IMITATION; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LEARNING; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY SAMPLE; ROBOTICS; VISION;

ATTENTION; BAYES THEOREM; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 33646546015     PISSN: 08936080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neunet.2006.02.008     Document Type: Article

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