believable embodied agents requires an awareness of context and the capability to communicate with speech and gestures. We are concerned with developing such agents for use as sales assistants in a virtual marketplace. We employ a communication model which takes a public perspective on the meaning of communicative acts to enhance the agent's social awareness. Additionally the agent draws private inferences to build a model of the user. The agent uses a BDI model to reason about its contextual information and plan communicative acts. The speech and gestures generated by the agent are integrated using a script language. We contend that the integration of these components will help us to achieve contextual embodied agents.
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