Data Mining for Social Robotics

• Preface.- Introduction.- Part I: Time Series Mining.- Mining Time-Series Data.- Change Point Discovery.- Motif Discovery.- Causality Analysis.- Part II: Autonomously Social Robots.- Introduction to Social Robotics.- Imitation and Social Robotics.- Theoretical Foundations.- The Embodied Interactive Control Architecture.- Interacting Naturally.- Interaction Learning through Imitation.- Fluid Imitation.- Learning through Demonstration.- Conclusion.- Index.

“This comprehensive work focuses on human-robot interaction (HRI) using data mining and time series analysis. … In general, this book includes rich knowledge in social robot study using data mining tools. … It’s a nice book for graduate students and practitioners to dive deeper into HRI. Personally, this book led me to rethink the learning processes and interaction manners of humans, which is a rather interesting journey.” (Feng Yu, Computing Reviews, March, 2017)