Local CoSy Collaborators

We have close relationships with researchers in the School of Psychology, and also expect to work with researchers interested in animal cognition in the School of Biosciences, as well as colleagues in other places. The following members of the School of Computer Science are likely to be involved at various stages during the project. This is a tentative list and others are likely to be added. We expect to collaborate with researchers in the School of Psychology also.

• Russell Beale
  Interested in agency, the impact on society, potential impacts on cognitive models. Usability issues.
• John A. Bullinaria
  Mainly interested in evolving things: architectures, motor/sensor control systems, efficient learning algorithms, sensor usage, etc.
• William Henry Edmondson
  Interested in general cognitive modelling in relation to perception/action/language (including speech and sign-language)
  See http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~whe/seqimp.pdf
• Sheila Glasbey
  Language, Architectures, Reasoning about time and causation.
• Alex Kacelnik
  Head of the Behavioural Ecology Research Group, Oxford University. They investigate the biology of decision-making with the tools of evolutionary biology and experimental psychology. Alex was one of the invited speakers at the Cosy-organised Tutorial at IJCAI-05
• Mark Lee
  Language (including social interaction) and architecture (including self-understanding, as required for social interaction)
• Manfred Kerber
  Architecture (including self-understanding), Representations, Planning
• Yoshiyuki Matsumura
  based at Shinshu University, Japan, and a visiting researcher in Birmingham. Stable grasping strategies, evolutionary robotics.
• Mark Dermot Ryan
  Architecture (including self-understanding), Representations, Learning
• Matthias Scheutz
  at the University of Notre Dame is not really local, but he has worked here in Birmingham and expects to collaborate on this project. Some of his work on robotics is reported here: http://www.nd.edu/%7Eairolab/.
• Guan-zheng Tan
  School of Information Science & Engineering Central South University, The People's Republic of China. Visiting The School of Computer Science, from October 2004 for about a year. Rearch interests include Biped Robots, Industrial Robots, Evolutionary Robots, and Intelligent Artificial Legs.
• David Young
  Senior Lecturer in Artificial Intelligence, Department of Informatics, The University of Sussex. Interested in computational and biological aspects of vision, in particular: vision for the control of action; visual motion and the pickup and interpretation of optic flow; the representation of images in low-level biological and computer vision; applications of computer vision, for example, to road traffic monitoring; applications of neural networks in low-level vision; the integration of different types of visual information.
  Developed and maintains the Popvision package used here as part of Poplog.