[
    {
        "id": "osp-18362",
        "type": "article-journal",
        "title": "Infant simulator with an embodied caregiver: Generating infant-perspective touch and vision during social interaction",
        "author": [
            {
                "family": "Vaculinova",
                "given": "Noemi"
            },
            {
                "family": "Hoffmann",
                "given": "Matej"
            }
        ],
        "URL": "https://omanscience.com/en/articles/infant-simulator-with-an-embodied-caregiver-generating-infant-perspective-touch-and-vision-during-social-interaction",
        "language": "en",
        "issued": {
            "date-parts": [
                [
                    2026
                ]
            ]
        },
        "abstract": "Early development unfolds in caregiver-infant dyads, where infants' sensorimotor streams are shaped by physical contact and face-to-face interaction. Yet developmental robotics simulators commonly model infants in isolation, limiting the study of caregiver-mediated experience. We present a caregiver-enabled extension of the Multi-Modal Infant Model (MIMo) in MuJoCo that turns MIMo into a controllable platform for replaying dyadic interaction and generating dense infant-perspective observations. The system provides (i) an articulated caregiver model compatible with MIMo morphologies, parameterized from anthropometrics and optionally resized to a recorded caregiver; (ii) a workflow to replay naturalistic caregiver-infant holding and soothing interactions; and (iii) logging and visualizing the infant's first-person multimodal experience (we show touch and vision). We showcase the tool on touch by introducing origin-aware contact logging that disambiguates self-, caregiver-, and environment-generated contact and supports aggregation into touch-rate statistics comparable to manual coding. While we showcase tactile analysis, the platform is intended more broadly as a generator of multimodal dyadic datasets (touch and egocentric vision) for modeling the development of social interaction."
    }
]