Personality Shaping: A Prescriptive Approach Based on Virtual-Real Human Interaction

The era has been witnessing our entering into a more professional and cooperative society and also a bloom of various digital humans that help us complete more challenging industrial work than ever. As a major human-machine communication channel, virtual-real interaction between digital and real humans is an efficient way to adjust the mismatch between specialized tasks and participants with unsuitable personalities, elevating the overall performance of such human participated systems. This article proposes a new paradigm for temporary personality shaping by prescriptively interacting the human operator/user with his “digital assistant” in cyber space. As a first proposed personality shaping with AI-aided approach, the new paradigm involves digital human modeling with uncertain personality, computational experiments on personality evolution, and prescriptive interaction with user counterpart. By iteratively and repeatedly executing the three steps, the personality of human participants is gradually tailored and prescribed so that he can well undertake specific tasks. Experiments based on online social media data and human-machine shared driving have indicated that our new personality shaping paradigm is feasible and effective in performing representative tasks.