MONITORING INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS THROUGH GAMES WITH SOCIAL DILEMMA

Roman Gorbunov, Emilia Barakova, Rene Ahn, Matthias Rauterberg

2011

Abstract

In this paper we introduce a method to monitor interpersonal relations through a game with a social dilemma. In the game players can interact with each other through negotiations and by exchanges of resources. To enable the monitoring of interpersonal relations this environment confronts players with specially selected instances of the game, where strategies based on different social factors (like helpfulness or fairness) will enforce different choices in the game. An evolutionary inspired optimization was used to find the games with the special social setting. The special selection of the games helps us to relate the observed actions directly to parameters that model strategies that the players are likely to adopt. Through an estimation of these parameters we are able to observe quantitative differences in the social preferences by different players. Moreover, we demonstrate that players play differently depending on whom they are interacting with. This strongly indicates that the observed playing styles can reveal certain aspects of the relations between players.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Gorbunov R., Barakova E., Ahn R. and Rauterberg M. (2011). MONITORING INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS THROUGH GAMES WITH SOCIAL DILEMMA . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Evolutionary Computation Theory and Applications - Volume 1: ECTA, (IJCCI 2011) ISBN 978-989-8425-83-6, pages 5-12. DOI: 10.5220/0003623400050012

in Bibtex Style

@conference{ecta11,
author={Roman Gorbunov and Emilia Barakova and Rene Ahn and Matthias Rauterberg},
title={MONITORING INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS THROUGH GAMES WITH SOCIAL DILEMMA},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Evolutionary Computation Theory and Applications - Volume 1: ECTA, (IJCCI 2011)},
year={2011},
pages={5-12},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003623400050012},
isbn={978-989-8425-83-6},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Evolutionary Computation Theory and Applications - Volume 1: ECTA, (IJCCI 2011)
TI - MONITORING INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS THROUGH GAMES WITH SOCIAL DILEMMA
SN - 978-989-8425-83-6
AU - Gorbunov R.
AU - Barakova E.
AU - Ahn R.
AU - Rauterberg M.
PY - 2011
SP - 5
EP - 12
DO - 10.5220/0003623400050012