Design and Implementation of Socially Intelligent Agents providing Emotional and Cognitive Support

We propose a software platform for applications based on socially intelligent agents （SIAs） . SIAs are software agents which manifest social intelligence. Although there are many types of social intelligence we focus on two types social intelligence for providing emotional support and social intelligence for pro‑ viding cognitive support. By applying these types of social intelligence our SIAs are able to simulate human social behavior. We demonstrate how we created the SIAs and describe the conceptual architec‑ ture of our software platform. We also show the mechanism for generating the agents' social behavior which makes our software platform unique. According to the media equation theory we expect SIAs to benefit users. To examine the effects of SIAs we designed and implemented two applications. We provide explanation about how SIAs function in these applications and discuss further implications of social intelli‑ gence.

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