arXiv:2606.09832cs.HCcs.AI2026-06

设计AI代理身份可影响人机协作效果,提出新框架指导多智能体系统设计。

Agentic Social Affordance Framework (ASAF): Agent Identity Design as a Collaboration Interface in Multi-Agent Systems

论文配图:Agentic Social Affordance Framework (ASAF): Agent Identity Design as a Collaboration Interface in Multi-Agent Systems
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  • 将代理身份作为协作接口,通过三机制塑造用户认知与行为
  • 提出四层身份信号保真度谱和认知风格调节变量,明确应用边界
  • 适用于需人机协同的复杂系统,如自动驾驶、智能客服等场景

随着AI系统从单智能体演进为多智能体架构,一个关键设计维度被忽视:个体智能体的社会身份如何影响人类在协作中的行为。本文提出代理社会可供性框架(ASAF),将社会可供性理论扩展至多智能体AI系统。我们主张,代理身份设计充当协作界面——决定用户如何感知与互动,从而影响人机协作结果。ASAF以社会可供性层与工程编排层的分析可分离性为假设框架,而非可验证的独立性主张。框架包含三个机制:身份信号、行为预置与协作治理,并通过四层身份信号保真度谱和个体差异调节变量(拟人化与工具化认知风格)界定其边界条件。该框架相对于供能理论(Hutchby, 2001)、CASA范式(Gambino et al., 2020)及经典多智能体系统研究(Wooldridge & Jennings, 1995)实现了方向逆转:传统多智能体系统用角色、规范与协调约束自主代理,而ASAF则运用相同组织语言来结构化仍处于环路中的人类操作者认知与监管。社会可供性设计应被视为首要设计责任,工程编排无法替代。本文还提出实证验证路径,包括刻画社会可供性与工程编排层之间交互作用的因子设计。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

As AI systems evolve from single agents to multi-agent architectures, a critical design dimension has been overlooked: how the social identity of individual agents shapes human behavior within the collaboration. This paper introduces the Agentic Social Affordance Framework (ASAF), a theoretical framework extending Social Affordance theory to multi-agent AI systems. We propose that agent identity design functions as a collaboration interface--structuring how users perceive and engage with each agent, and thereby influencing Human-Agent collaboration outcomes. ASAF adopts the analytical separability of the social affordance layer and the engineering orchestration layer as a framing assumption--an organizing distinction that structures design analysis--rather than a testable claim about effect-independence. ASAF comprises three mechanisms: Identity Signaling, Behavioral Priming, and Collaborative Governance, and specifies their boundary conditions through a four-tier Identity Signal Fidelity Spectrum and an individual-difference moderating variable (anthropomorphizing vs. instrumentalizing cognitive style). We situate ASAF relative to affordance theory (Hutchby, 2001), the CASA paradigm (Gambino et al., 2020), and classical multi-agent systems research (Wooldridge & Jennings, 1995), identifying a directional reversal: where classical MAS used roles, norms, and coordination to constrain autonomous agents, ASAF applies the same organizational vocabulary to structure the cognition and oversight of human operators who remain in the loop. ASAF positions social affordance design as a first-class design responsibility that engineering orchestration cannot subsume. We outline directions for empirical validation, including a factorial design characterizing the empirical interaction surface between the social affordance and engineering orchestration layers.

多智能体人机协作身份设计

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