Social situated agents in virtual, real and mixed reality environments

This paper details a framework for explicit deliberative control of socially and physically situated agents in virtual, real and mixed reality environments. The objective is to blur the traditional boundaries between the real and the virtual and provide a standardized methodology for intelligent agent control specifically designed for social interaction. The architecture presented in this paper embraces the fusion between deliberative social reasoning mechanisms and explicit tangible behavioural mechanisms for human-agent social interaction.