The effects of human personality on human-agent interactions

Currently more and more agents are involved in human routine activities and a mixed human-agent society is thus formed by the humans and the agents involved. The relationship between humans and agents in this mixed society is subtle and it is vital to explore the influence that agents bring into the society. In this paper, we try to investigate a few questions: will humans act differently towards a person and an agent? Do humans’ personality types influence their decisions? To figure out these questions, we use the Keirsey Temperament Sorter-II (KTS-II), which is related to Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) to test human subjects’ personality types. Then the cake-cutting game and the ultimatum game are played by the human subjects and the agents. Though the ultimatum game was used in preceding works to study human behavior, only human subjects were used and KTS-II was not used. We expect that humans will treat a person and an agent differently and personality types will influence humans’ decision.