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any, of the mother a baby may have. There is for example biological evidence of
tuning of the babies sensory systems during pregnancy, and immediately after
birth, to the mother’s odor and voice. Thus, the mother constructs an explicit
coparticipant and the baby acts as if it has a coparticipant.

7. Summary
We argued for and demonstrated an approach to social relationship, appro-
priate for agent-agent and user-agent interaction:

In a social relationship, agents enter into mutually controlled action regimes,
which they maintain voluntarily by mutual perception and by the elaboration
of their individual social plans.

Acknowledgement: This work was supported by the National Science Foundation, Information
Technology and Organizations Program managed by Dr. Les Gasser, and is currently supported
by the Cooperation and Social Systems program managed by Dr. Susan Iacono, Research grant
IIS-9812714, and by the Caltech Neuromorphic Engineering Research Center, NSF Research
Grant EEC-9730980.

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