“Go to the Children”: Rethinking Intelligent Agent Design and Programming in a Developmental Learning Perspective

In this paper we propose to rethink the development of intelligent agents based on cognitive architectures as a developmental learning process, inspired by theories of learning in children and cognitive development. The idea is targeted to explore architectures, methods and tools to systematically develop intelligent agents capable of integrating both practical knowledge and skills designed by developers and knowledge and skills acquired by interacting in properly designed learning environments.