Inna Mikhailova, Werner von Seelen, Christian Goerick, "Usage of General Developmental Principles for Adaptation of Reactive Behavior", Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Epigenetic Robotics: Modeling Cognitive Development in Robotic Systems, pp. 63-70, 2006.

We propose a design of a self-motivational system which would be suitable for both adaptation and development scenarios. The core features of our design are: the usage of general rewards and building up on a reactive system. As a test case for our design we use the human-robot interaction via shared attention. We show that with addition of a general-purpose self-motivational mechanism the system can aquire a behavior for distinguishing between objects presented by a human and those that just happen to be close to the robot.