CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ================================== The Natural Computing Applications Forum Meeting on Intelligent Neural Robotics NCAF 2009 Date and Location: January 21-22, 2009, Sunderland, UK The forthcoming NCAF meeting will be held in Sunderland on the 21/22nd January, hosted by the Hybrid Intelligent Systems (HIS) group based at the University of Sunderland. This event will be set along the banks of the River Wear at the award winning Sir Tom Cowie Campus at St.Peter’s and a special evening event at Sunderland’s National Glass Centre. Programme summary: • Stefan Wermter - Hybrid Intelligent Systems for Cognitive Robotics • Jindong Liu - Mobile Robot Broadband Sound Localisation using a Biologically Inspired Spiking Neural Network • Matthew Casey - Modelling the Sensory Hierarchy: From Gaze Shifts to Emotions • Heidi Christenson - POPeye: Real-Time, Binaural Sound Source Localisation on an Audio-Visual Robot-Head • Aneesh Chauhan - A Robotic Arm with Language Acquisition Capabilities • Mark Ebden - Decentralized Predictive Sensor Allocation • Harry Erwin - An Approach to Developing a Library of Voltage-Gated Channels • Mark Elshaw - Recurrent Self-Organising Memory Model for Speech Signal and Semantic Feature Association for Emergent Speech Representation • John Murray - Towards Emotional Robots: Interaction Preference between Robot and Human • Mike Knowles - Reinforcement Learning and Perceptual Symbol Systems for supporting Human Robot Interaction • Heidi Christenson - Simultaneous Tracking of Perceiver Movements and Speaker Changes Using Head-Centered, Binaural Data If you would like to participate / register or find out more information on the event, please visit either http://www.his.sunderland.ac.uk/ncaf09/ or http://www.ncaf.org.uk/ best wishes Stefan *************************************** Professor Stefan Wermter Centre for Hybrid Intelligent Systems Department of Computing and Technology, FAS University of Sunderland St Peters Way Sunderland SR6 0DD United Kingdom phone: +44 191 515 3279 fax: +44 191 515 3553 email: stefan.wermter AT sunderland.ac.uk http://www.his.sunderland.ac.uk/~cs0stw/ http://www.his.sunderland.ac.uk/ ****************************************