Interaction management between social agents and human

In this paper we address the problem of managing social interactions between a human user and a set of social agents in structured environments. These agents have to regulate a measurable characteristic of the user. Our study focuses mainly therapeutic, caring for elderly people and assessment applications. The agent concept considered in this study is suitable for multi-robot systems (physical, service, mobile or not), but also to virtual agents (avatars) in a virtual reality (VR) application. The proposed approach has been adapted for an application of social phobia treatment using virtual reality. Thus, we conducted a case study to show the effectiveness of our contribution.