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HRI 2007 is just a few days away, and I'm still short on content here! At least there are a few blog entries and the paper database so far. I hope to draft a few other students from the Young Researcher's Workshop to help blog the conference and maybe start some discussion over in the forum.

I've been thinking about my previous entry a bit, and while I still think it's an interesting idea, the motivation for it seems a bit lacking. Maybe I'll change my mind on that while traveling on Wednesday, but there doesn't seem to be-- relatively, anyway-- that much interesting periodic motion in the world for the robot to focus on. That said, it's something to play with to hone my matlab skills.

Meanwhile, I've finished all but the last 20 pages of Mindblindness. I've found it an extremely compelling read, and I'm feeling more certain that my research should focus on predictive models for cognitive state. It seems like a relatively understudied area in HRI, but an extremely useful one. Some of the states for which there are positive results are "confused", "thinking", and "deciding", would be very useful in interactions.

Looks like it's time for me to take some classes over in PNP, the Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology research group here at Wash U.

As a side note, I really need to figure out what sort of shortcuts can be used in editing Drupal entries...