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| author | He, Zihong Wang, Shuqin Zhou, Songchen Lin, Qinghui Wang, Jialin Liang, Chen Liang, Hai-Ning |
| author_facet | He, Zihong Wang, Shuqin Zhou, Songchen Lin, Qinghui Wang, Jialin Liang, Chen Liang, Hai-Ning |
| contents | Most AI agents remain confined to an instrumental "command-execution" model, resulting in unequal, one-sided interactions. While recent works attempt to build relationships through hidden memory backends, these invisible processes often fail to break the instrumental bias. In this paper, we argue that true relational equality requires agents to have an independent, observable existence. We introduce the \textit{Observable Life Spaces} paradigm, where agents inhabit a continuous virtual environment, engage in daily activities, and form social relationships that users can directly observe. Through a mixed-methods study ($N=24$), we demonstrate that only when agents are endowed with a socialized life space that is visually observable to humans can the perceived equality during interaction be significantly enhanced ($p = 0.015$). Our findings suggest that visually representing an agent's social life space can effectively shift the human-agent dynamic from a purely instrumental relationship to one characterized by perceived equality. |
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| spellingShingle | Would You Like to Visit My World? Cultivating Perceived Equality in Human-Agent Interaction via Observable Social Life Spaces He, Zihong Wang, Shuqin Zhou, Songchen Lin, Qinghui Wang, Jialin Liang, Chen Liang, Hai-Ning Human-Computer Interaction Most AI agents remain confined to an instrumental "command-execution" model, resulting in unequal, one-sided interactions. While recent works attempt to build relationships through hidden memory backends, these invisible processes often fail to break the instrumental bias. In this paper, we argue that true relational equality requires agents to have an independent, observable existence. We introduce the \textit{Observable Life Spaces} paradigm, where agents inhabit a continuous virtual environment, engage in daily activities, and form social relationships that users can directly observe. Through a mixed-methods study ($N=24$), we demonstrate that only when agents are endowed with a socialized life space that is visually observable to humans can the perceived equality during interaction be significantly enhanced ($p = 0.015$). Our findings suggest that visually representing an agent's social life space can effectively shift the human-agent dynamic from a purely instrumental relationship to one characterized by perceived equality. |
| title | Would You Like to Visit My World? Cultivating Perceived Equality in Human-Agent Interaction via Observable Social Life Spaces |
| topic | Human-Computer Interaction |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.21505 |