Movellan

“When we 'transplanted' the strategies that infants use in smile games, into the robot, these strategies had the predicted effect,” Movellan said, who himself used to watch his three-month-old baby Marina smile and wonder if she was trying to ...

“If you've ever interacted with babies, you suspect that they're up to something when they're smiling,” said Javier Movellan, co-author of the study from Machine Perception Laboratory at the University of California. “They're not just smiling randomly ...

The Union-Tribune's piece compared babies to comedians in this regard — exerting small effort to bring joy — and Javier Movellan, UC San Diego psychologist and lead researcher, said it's all based on babies knowing what they want. "I used to wonder ...

'If you've ever interacted with babies, you suspect that they're up to something when they're smiling. 'They're not just smiling randomly,' said Javier Movellan, a research scientist in the Machine Perception Laboratory at the University of California ...

When cognitive scientist Dr. Javier Movellan watched his three-month-old baby Marina smile, he wondered if she was trying to communicate with him. “I felt very strongly that this was happening but in the back of my mind I wondered whether I was just ...

"If you've ever interacted with babies, you suspect that they're up to something when they're smiling. They're not just smiling randomly," study author, Javier Movellan, also a research scientist in the Machine Perception Laboratory at the University ...