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Social Situated Agents in Virtual, Real and Mixed Reality Environments

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Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA 2005)

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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.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland

    M. Dragone, T. Holz & G. M. P. O’Hare

  2. Institut Eurécom, 2229 Route des Crêtes, BP 193, F 06904, Sophia-Antipolis, France

    B. R. Duffy

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  1. Department of Informatics, University of Piraeus, Piraeus, Greece

    Themis Panayiotopoulos

  2. Institute for Creative Technologies, University of Southern California, 13274 Fiji Way, 90292, Marina Del Rey, CA, USA

    Jonathan Gratch

  3. School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Heriot Watt University, EH14 4AS, Edinburgh, Scotland

    Ruth Aylett

  4. BT plc, Adastral Park, Ipswich, IP5 3RE, UK

    Daniel Ballin

  5. School of Computing Science, Culture Lab, Newcastle University, NE1 7RU, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

    Patrick Olivier

  6. University of Applied Sciences Augsburg, Friedberger Str. 2a, 86161, Augsburg, Germany

    Thomas Rist

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Dragone, M., Holz, T., Duffy, B.R., O’Hare, G.M.P. (2005). Social Situated Agents in Virtual, Real and Mixed Reality Environments. In: Panayiotopoulos, T., Gratch, J., Aylett, R., Ballin, D., Olivier, P., Rist, T. (eds) Intelligent Virtual Agents. IVA 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3661. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11550617_15

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