Designing and Living in Mirror Worlds

The impressive development of technologies is making more and more thin the separation between the physical and the digital matter, reality and virtuality. In this paper we dis- cuss the vision of mirror worlds (MW), as agent-based sys- tems that live on this edge. Besides being an interesting blueprint for designing future smart environment systems, we believe that MW provides an innovative conceptual frame- work for investigating inter-disciplinary aspects - from cog- nition to interaction, cooperation, governance - concerning human-agent mixed-reality systems. In this paper we sketch some key points of MW and propose an inter-disciplinary road map for their investigation.