Human-robot cooperation in prisoner dilemma games people behave more reciprocally than prosocially toward robots

Te Yi Hsieh, Bishakha Chaudhury, Emily S. Cross

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    Abstract

    This study investigated human-robot cooperation in the context of prisoner's dilemma games and examined the extent to which people's willingness to cooperate with a robot would vary according to the incentives provided by a game context. We manipulated the payoff matrices of human-robot prisoner's dilemma games and predicted that people would cooperate more often in the situation where cooperating with the robot was a relatively more rewarding option. Our results showed that, in the early rounds of the game, participants made significantly more cooperative decisions, when the game structure providing more incentives for cooperation. However, their subsequent game decisions were dominantly driven by Cozmo's previous game choices and the incentive structure was no longer a predictive factor to their decisions. The findings suggest that people have a strong reciprocal tendency to social robots in economic games and this tendency might even surpass the influence of the reward value of their decisions.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationHRI 2020
    Subtitle of host publicationCompanion of the 2020 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction
    Place of PublicationNew York, NY
    PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery (ACM)
    Pages257-259
    Number of pages3
    ISBN (Electronic)9781450370578
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - Mar 2020
    Event15th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction, HRI 2020 - Cambridge, United Kingdom
    Duration: 23 Mar 202026 Mar 2020

    Publication series

    NameACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction
    ISSN (Electronic)2167-2148

    Conference

    Conference15th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction, HRI 2020
    Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
    CityCambridge
    Period23/03/2026/03/20

    Keywords

    • Human-robot interaction
    • cooperation
    • prisoner’s dilemma games
    • social decision-making

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