As AI systems evolve from single conversational agents to complex 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 that extends Social Affordance theory into the context of multi-agent …
IntroductionTo foster effective human-agent interactions, designers must understand how vocal cues influence the perception of agent personality and the role of user-agent alignment in shaping these perceptions. In this work, we examine whether users can perceive extroversion in voice-only artificial agents and how perceived personality relates to user-agent synchrony.MethodsWe conducted an explo…
