TY - GEN
T1 - How automated agents treat humans and other automated agents in situations of inequity
T2 - 7th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS 2008
AU - Katz, Ron
AU - Kraus, Sarit
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - This paper explores the question of how agent designers perceive and treat their agent's opponents. In particular, it examines the influence of the opponent's identity (human vs. automated agent) in negotiations. We empirically demonstrate that when people interact spontaneously they treat human opponents differently than automated agents in the context of equity and fairness considerations. However, these difference vanish when people design and implement agents that will interact on their behalf. Nevertheless, the commitment of the agents to honor agreements with people is higher than their commitment to other agents. In the experiments, which comprised 147 computer science students, we used the Colored Trails game as the negotiation environment. We suggest possible explanations for the relationships among online players, agent designers, human opponents and automated opponents.
AB - This paper explores the question of how agent designers perceive and treat their agent's opponents. In particular, it examines the influence of the opponent's identity (human vs. automated agent) in negotiations. We empirically demonstrate that when people interact spontaneously they treat human opponents differently than automated agents in the context of equity and fairness considerations. However, these difference vanish when people design and implement agents that will interact on their behalf. Nevertheless, the commitment of the agents to honor agreements with people is higher than their commitment to other agents. In the experiments, which comprised 147 computer science students, we used the Colored Trails game as the negotiation environment. We suggest possible explanations for the relationships among online players, agent designers, human opponents and automated opponents.
KW - Automated negotiators
KW - Human-agent interaction
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AN - SCOPUS:84899908248
SN - 9781605604701
T3 - Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS
SP - 1461
EP - 1464
BT - 7th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS 2008
PB - International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (IFAAMAS)
Y2 - 12 May 2008 through 16 May 2008
ER -