The effects of cooperative agent behavior on human cooperativeness

ABSTRACT

In this paper we examine the question of how cooperativeness of a software agent affects cooperativeness of a human player. Our data shows that humans behave more cooperatively towards agents that negotiate with them in a cooperative way.

REFERENCES

• 1: Barbara J. Grosz , Sarit Kraus , Shavit Talman , Boaz Stossel , Moti Havlin, The Influence of Social Dependencies on Decision-Making: Initial Investigations with a New Game, Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, p.782-789, July 19-23, 2004, New York, New York [doi>10.1109/AAMAS.2004.264]
• 2: A. van Wissen, J. van Diggelen, and V. Dignum. The effects of cooperative agent behavior on human cooperativeness. BNAIC, 2008.

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.1 MODELS AND PRINCIPLES
      H.1.2 User/Machine Systems
          Subjects: Human factors

Additional Classification:
  I. Computing Methodologies
  I.2 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
        I.2.11 Distributed Artificial Intelligence
            Subjects: Intelligent agents

General Terms:
Human Factors

Keywords:
cooperative behavior, human-agent interaction, social factors