How Anthropomorphic Attitudes Toward Agents Divide User Behavior, and How Design Should Change
4.20T1 sourcearXiv cs.HC
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Published by arXiv cs.HC (T1 source). The original is at https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.13156.
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SummaryField study (n=257) of a desktop assistant examines whether users who adopt anthropomorphic names behave differently from default-name users. Behavioral codebook analysis shows rank differences in opening style, identity tags, and lexicon. A follow-up judgment study (n=129) validates context-conditional reply design.
Why it mattersConcrete field evidence that an agent's reply strategy should branch on user stance, with specific design rules for relational versus task openings.
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