Designing EEPO: An Emissary Educator Playmate Oracle XR Conversation Agent for Children

This paper presents an extended reality (XR) embodied conversational agent, as a social-emotional companion for parents and children within the home context. It has focused on the role of technology including Artificial Intelligence (AI) and XR on holistic child development and well-being, parenting, and the beautiful relational space in between children and parents, here termed Augmented Sociology. Based on the EEPO (Emissary Educator Playmate Oracle) theoretical child technology interaction framework, this work presents an early EEPO prototype, toward an XR social-emotional development companion agent for children and support agent for parents.