Organizing Committee:

Tomoyuki Yamamoto (Osaka University) and Friederike Eyssel (Bielefeld University)

List of Participants:

Osaka University:

Minoru Asada, Takashi Fujikado, Masayuki Hirata, Takashi Ikeda, Hiroshi Ishiguro, Hiroko Kamide, Tora Koyama, Takashi Mashimo, Daisuke Matsuyoshi, Yukie Nagai, Aya Nakae, Kenichi Narioka, Mariko Osaka, Michihiro Shimada, Tomoyuki Yamamoto

Bielefeld University:

Anita Adamczyk, Elisabetta Chicca, Friederike Eyssel, Thomas Hermann, Helge Ritter, Ulrich Rückert, Jochen Steil

Japanese and German delegation in Osaka, March 2012:

Workshop Programm:

Monday March 19, 2012

Room B (3F), Icho Kaikan

9:00-9:15	Minoru Asada, Osaka University	Welcome address
9:15-9:45	Osaka: Yukie Nagai Bielefeld: Helge Ritter	Recent updates on CITEC and Global COE
9:45-11:00	Self introduction
11:00-11:30	Break / group picture
	Session 1 (Chair: Takashi Ikeda)
11:30-12:00	Talk 1: Friederike Eyssel	“Of Humans and Robots: From Social Psychology to Robotics (..and back!)”
12:00-12:30	Talk 2: Hiroko Kamide	“Psychological approach to evaluate humanoid”
12:30-13:30	Lunch	Sky Restaurant, University Hospital
13:30-15:50	Chair: Aya Nakae	Lab Tour (Hospital and Medical bldg.)
16:00-17:00	Keynote 1: Takashi Fujikado	“Developing next-generation artificial retina – Sensory BMI”
17:00-18:00	Chair: Thomas Hermann Keynote 2: Ulrich Rückert	“Cognitronics: Resource-efficient Architectures for Cognitive Systems”
18:00-20:00	Speech by Hiroshi Ishiguro and Helge Ritter	Reception + Poster

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Room B (3F), Icho Kaikan

	Session 2 (Chair: Elisabetta Chicca)
9:30-10:00	Talk 3: Daisuke Matsuyoshi	“Visual memory and overloading”
10:00-10:30	Talk 4: Jochen Steil	“Neural Learning to compose complex movements”
10:30-10:50	Break
	Session 3 (Chair: Aya Nakae)
10:50-11:20	Talk 5: Michihiro Shimada	“Use of a social robot to promote children's collaborative-learning”
11:20-11:50	Talk 6: Thomas Hermann	“Closed-Loop Interactions: Multimodal interfaces for supporting human activity and cooperation”
11:50-13:30	Lunch
	Lab Tours
13:30-15:30	Chair: Yukie Nagai	Lab Tour for Asada Lab., Asada Lab (ERATO), Hosoda Lab.
15:30-16:00	Move to Toyonaka Campus
16:00-17:00	Chair: Tomoyuki Yamamoto	Ishiguro Lab. and Arai Lab.

Wednesday March 21, 2012

Chuo Public Hall (AM) and Osaka Univ. Nakanoshima Center (PM)

9:20	Venue Open	Special Room (3F)
	Session 4 (Chair: Jochen Steil)
9:30-10:00	Talk 7: Masayuki Hirata	“A Fully-implantable Wireless System for Human Brain-Machine Interfaces usingBrain Surface Electrodes: W-HERBS”
10:00-10:30	Talk 8: Elisabetta Chicca	“Neuromorphic VLSI Spiking Neural Networks”
10:30-10:45	Break
	Session 5 (Chair: Yukie Nagai)
10:45-11:15	Ulrich Rückert and Friederike Eyssel	Progress report on German-Japan externship proposal
11:15-11:45	Discussion
12:00-13:30	Lunch	Move to Osaka Univ., Nakanoshima Center
13:30-14:00	Grouping for collaborative research
14:00-15:30	Discussion by group
15:30-17:00	Discussion
17:00-17:30	Workshop summary
18:00-unspecified	Farewell dinner	Nakanoshima Center