Confronting barriers to human-robot cooperation: balancing efficiency and risk in machine behavior
Summary: Many technical and psychological challenges make it difficult to design machines that effectively cooperate with people. To better understand these challenges, we conducted a series of studies investigating human-human, robot-robot, and human-robot cooperation in a strategically rich resour...
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| author | Tim Whiting Alvika Gautam Jacob Tye Michael Simmons Jordan Henstrom Mayada Oudah Jacob W. Crandall |
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| description | Summary: Many technical and psychological challenges make it difficult to design machines that effectively cooperate with people. To better understand these challenges, we conducted a series of studies investigating human-human, robot-robot, and human-robot cooperation in a strategically rich resource-sharing scenario, which required players to balance efficiency, fairness, and risk. In these studies, both human-human and robot-robot dyads typically learned efficient and risky cooperative solutions when they could communicate. In the absence of communication, robot dyads still often learned the same efficient solution, but human dyads achieved a less efficient (less risky) form of cooperation. This difference in how people and machines treat risk appeared to discourage human-robot cooperation, as human-robot dyads frequently failed to cooperate without communication. These results indicate that machine behavior should better align with human behavior, promoting efficiency while simultaneously considering human tendencies toward risk and fairness. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-b50a372e8a4c44eb827f86ff7f3e64eb2022-12-21T23:15:01ZengElsevieriScience2589-00422021-01-01241101963Confronting barriers to human-robot cooperation: balancing efficiency and risk in machine behaviorTim Whiting0Alvika Gautam1Jacob Tye2Michael Simmons3Jordan Henstrom4Mayada Oudah5Jacob W. Crandall6Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602, USABrigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602, USABrigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602, USABrigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602, USAOregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USANew York University Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, UAEBrigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602, USA; Corresponding authorSummary: Many technical and psychological challenges make it difficult to design machines that effectively cooperate with people. To better understand these challenges, we conducted a series of studies investigating human-human, robot-robot, and human-robot cooperation in a strategically rich resource-sharing scenario, which required players to balance efficiency, fairness, and risk. In these studies, both human-human and robot-robot dyads typically learned efficient and risky cooperative solutions when they could communicate. In the absence of communication, robot dyads still often learned the same efficient solution, but human dyads achieved a less efficient (less risky) form of cooperation. This difference in how people and machines treat risk appeared to discourage human-robot cooperation, as human-robot dyads frequently failed to cooperate without communication. These results indicate that machine behavior should better align with human behavior, promoting efficiency while simultaneously considering human tendencies toward risk and fairness.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589004220311603Human-Computer InteractionSocial SciencesPsychology |
| spellingShingle | Tim Whiting Alvika Gautam Jacob Tye Michael Simmons Jordan Henstrom Mayada Oudah Jacob W. Crandall Confronting barriers to human-robot cooperation: balancing efficiency and risk in machine behavior iScience Human-Computer Interaction Social Sciences Psychology |
| title | Confronting barriers to human-robot cooperation: balancing efficiency and risk in machine behavior |
| title_full | Confronting barriers to human-robot cooperation: balancing efficiency and risk in machine behavior |
| title_fullStr | Confronting barriers to human-robot cooperation: balancing efficiency and risk in machine behavior |
| title_full_unstemmed | Confronting barriers to human-robot cooperation: balancing efficiency and risk in machine behavior |
| title_short | Confronting barriers to human-robot cooperation: balancing efficiency and risk in machine behavior |
| title_sort | confronting barriers to human robot cooperation balancing efficiency and risk in machine behavior |
| topic | Human-Computer Interaction Social Sciences Psychology |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589004220311603 |
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