Paper Info
Title
Monetary-Incentive Competition Between Humans and Robots - Experimental Results.
Abstract
In a controlled experiment, participants (n = 60) competed in a monotonous task with an autonomous robot for real monetary incentives. For each participant, we manipulated the robot's performance and the monetary incentive level across ten rounds. In each round, a participant's performance compared to the robot's would affect their odds in a lottery for the monetary prize. Standard economic theory predicts that people's effort will increase with prize value. Furthermore, recent work in behavioral economics predicts that there will also be a discouragement effect, with stronger robot performance discouraging human effort, and that this effect will increase with prize. We were not able to detect a meaningful effect of monetary prize, but we found a small discouragement effect, with human effort decreasing with increased robot performance, significant at the p < 0.005 level. Using per-round subjective indicators, we also found a positive effect of robot performance on its perceived competence, a negative effect on the participants' liking of the robot, and a negative effect on the participants' own competence, all at p < 0.0001. These findings shed light on how people may exert work effort and perceive robotic competitors in a human-robot workforce, and could have implications on labor supply decisions and the design of compensation schemes in the workplace.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/HRI.2019.8673201
HRI
Keywords
Field
DocType
Human-Robot Competition,Reference-Dependent Preferences,Loss Aversion,Perceived Competence
Loss aversion,Incentive,Task analysis,Computer science,Microeconomics,Lottery,Human–computer interaction,Behavioral economics,Odds,Autonomous robot,Robot
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2167-2121
978-1-5386-8555-6
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Alap Kshirsagar111.36
Bnaya Dreyfuss200.34
Guy Ishai300.34
Ori Heffetz400.34
Guy Hoffman570662.08