Gold Intention Recognition Lab

Department of Computer Science
Wellesley College
Contact: kgold@wellesley.edu

Papers I recommend for my most recent research on particular topics are in boldface.

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

• K. Gold and B. Scassellati (2009). Using Probabilistic Reasoning Over Time to Self-Recognize. Robotics and Autonomous Systems (RAS) 57(4), p. 384-392.
• K. Gold, M. Doniec, C. Crick, and B. Scassellati (2009). Robotic Vocabulary Building Using Extension Inference and Implicit Contrast. Artificial Intelligence (AIJ) 173(1), p. 145-166.
• K. Gold and B. Scassellati (2006). Learning acceptable windows of contingency. Connection Science 18(2), p. 217-228.

Peer-Reviewed Conference Papers

• K. Gold (2010) Designer-Driven Intention Recognition in an Action-Adventure Game Using Fast Forward Bayesian Models. To be presented at FLAIRS 2010.
• A. Piplica, A. Olivier, A. Petrosino, and K. Gold (2010). "Learning to Identify and Track Imaginary Objects Implied by Gestures." To be presented at FLAIRS 2010 (camera-ready version forthcoming).
• K. Gold (2009). An Information Pipeline Model of Human-Robot Interaction. Proceedings of the 4th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction (HRI-09), La Jolla, CA.
• E. Kim, K. Gold, and B. Scassellati (2008). What Prosody Tells Infants to Believe. Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL-08), Monterey, CA.
• K. Gold, M. Doniec, and B. Scassellati (2007). Learning Grounded Semantics With Word Trees: Prepositions and Pronouns. Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL-07), London, UK. *Best Paper Award*
• K. Gold and B. Scassellati (2007). A robot that uses existing vocabulary to infer non-visual word meanings from observation. Proceedings of the Twenty-Second Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-07), Vancouver, BC, Canada.
• K. Gold and B. Scassellati (2007). A Bayesian robot that distinguishes "self" from "other." Proceedings of the 29th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci2007), Nashville, Tennessee.
• K. Gold, I. Fasel, N. Freier, and C. Torrey (2007). Young researchers' views on the current and future state of HRI. Proceedings of the 2nd Annual Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI-07), Arlington, Virginia.
• K. Gold and B. Scassellati (2006). Deictic pronoun learning and mirror self-identification. Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Epigenetic Robotics (EpiRob-06), Paris, France, p. 49-54.
• K. Gold and B. Scassellati (2006). Audio speech segmentation without language-specific knowledge. Proceedings of the 28th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci2006), Vancouver, Canada.
• K. Gold and B. Scassellati (2006). Grounded pronoun learning and pronoun reversal. 5th International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL-06), Bloomington, Indiana, 2006.
• K. Gold and B. Scassellati (2006). Using context and sensory data to learn first and second person pronouns. Proceedings of the 1st Annual Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI-06), Salt Lake City, Utah, p. 110-117.
• P. Michel, K. Gold, and B. Scassellati (2004). Motion-based robotic self-recognition. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS-04). Sendai, Japan.

Dissertation

• K. Gold (2008). Using Sentence Context and Implicit Contrast to Learn Sensor-Grounded Meanings for Relational and Deictic Words: The TWIG System. Yale University, May 2008.

Trade Magazine Articles

• B. Scassellati, C. Crick, K. Gold, E. Kim, F. Shic, and G. Sun (2006). Social development. Computational Intelligence Magazine (IEEE) 1(3), p. 41-47.

Workshop Papers

• K. Gold. (2006) Why robotic ethical claims will outpace their understanding. Artificial Life X Ethical Robots Workshop. Bloomington, Indiana.
• K. Gold and B. Scassellati (2005). Learning about the self and others through contingency. 2005 AAAI Spring Symposium on Developmental Robotics. Stanford, California.