Tinghy
Description
AI technologies mediate our interactions every day, yet they lack emotional intelligence, not least because it is hard for AI to develop an emotional understanding close to that of humans.
By operationalizing existing sociological theories and using novel statistical models, we found that 10 distinct relationship types are enough to account for the way more than 200 individuals talked about their relationships. These types are: Trust, Respect, Knowledge transfer, Power, Social Support, Identity, Similarity, Fun, Romance, and Conflict.
The researchers then created a web game on tinghy.org to collect data useful for training AI algorithms to interact the way humans do. The game uses your Twitter profile, shows you randomly selected Twitter contacts, and ask which type of relationships you have with them. In so doing, you can discover what your Twitter relationships are really about.
These findings will help other scientists to create new emphatic AI systems and social-networking companies build products responsive to our emotional needs.
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Publications
- Coloring in the Links: Capturing Social Ties As They Are Perceived. CSCW 2018 PDF