This chapter addresses embodied social interaction in lifelike agents.
Embodiment is discussed from both arti cial intelligence and psychology viewpoints.
Di erent degrees of embodiment in biological, virtual and robotic agents are discussed, given the example of a bottomup, behavior-oriented, dynamic control of virtual robots. We then discuss the issue of sociality which di ers in di erent academic communities with respect to which roles are attributed to genes, memes, and the individual embodied agent. Embodiment and interaction in socially intelligent life-like agents. Springer Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Volume 1562, 1999. 33 A taxonomy for autonomous agent - Franklin, Graesser et al.