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State of the art unimodal dialogue agents lack some core aspects of peer-to-peer communication—the nonverbal and visual cues that are a fundamental aspect of human interaction. To facilitate true peer-to-peer communication with a computer, we present Diana, a situated multimodal agent who exists in a mixed-reality environment with a human interlocutor, is situation- and context-aware, and responds to the human's language, gesture, and affect to complete collaborative tasks.