让聊天机器人更像人,能激发人类帮助它的意愿。
Exploring the Effects of Chatbot Anthropomorphism and Human Empathy on Human Prosocial Behavior Toward Chatbots
- 通过赋予机器人人类身份和情感表达,提升人们对它的共情。
- 共情在机器人拟人化与助人行为间起关键中介作用。
- 适合研究人机交互、情感计算与社会心理学的读者。
聊天机器人日益融入日常生活并被广泛用于辅助人类。近期研究关注反向行为:人类帮助聊天机器人,因其能带来更好的机器人性能、人类福祉及协作成果。然而,影响人类帮助聊天机器人的因素仍不明确。本文基于计算机是社交行动者(CASA)框架,探究聊天机器人拟人化(包括人类身份、情感表达和非语言表达)如何影响人类对机器人的共情及其后续亲社会行为与意图。我们开展一项在线实验(N=244),在协作图像标注任务中,聊天机器人出错后向参与者解释原因,随后测量其亲社会行为与意图。结果表明,聊天机器人的类人身份与情感表达显著提升了参与者的亲社会行为与意图,共情在其中起中介作用。定性分析进一步识别出两种动机:对聊天机器人的共情以及将其视为类人存在。研究结果对理解并促进人类对聊天机器人的亲社会行为具有重要意义。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Chatbots are increasingly integrated into people's lives and are widely used to help people. Recently, there has also been growing interest in the reverse direction-humans help chatbots-due to a wide range of benefits including better chatbot performance, human well-being, and collaborative outcomes. However, little research has explored the factors that motivate people to help chatbots. To address this gap, we draw on the Computers Are Social Actors (CASA) framework to examine how chatbot anthropomorphism-including human-like identity, emotional expression, and non-verbal expression-influences human empathy toward chatbots and their subsequent prosocial behaviors and intentions. We also explore people's own interpretations of their prosocial behaviors toward chatbots. We conducted an online experiment (N = 244) in which chatbots made mistakes in a collaborative image labeling task and explained the reasons to participants. We then measured participants' prosocial behaviors and intentions toward the chatbots. Our findings revealed that human identity and emotional expression of chatbots increased participants' prosocial behavior and intention toward chatbots, with empathy mediating these effects. Qualitative analysis further identified two motivations for participants' prosocial behaviors: empathy for the chatbot and perceiving the chatbot as human-like. We discuss the implications of these results for understanding and promoting human prosocial behaviors toward chatbots.
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