Social interaction between robots, avatars & humans

With the recent development of the field of social robotics and in particular the need to negotiate explicit social interaction and behaviour between both socially capable robots and between robots and humans, this work presents the development of a framework which supports coherent social interaction between real and artificial systems. The social robot architecture is implemented in conjunction with the virtual robotic workbench, a cohesive framework which integrates physical robots, virtual robot avatars and humans in a shared social space.