Does Personality Matter in Robot-Moderated Collaboration? Exploring the Personality Role in AR-Enabled Human-to-Human Task

Abstract

While collaborative robots (cobots) are designed to augment industrial workflows, their integration is often hindered by not accounting for the individual personality traits that influence human-to-human collaboration. Although personality is a primary driver of trust and coordination, it remains underexplored in multi-agent settings in which a robot serves as an agent moderating human-to-human collaboration. To investigate this, we designed an augmented reality (AR) interface to facilitate human-to-human collaboration moderated by a cobot. Using a gamified pick-and-place task, we examined how personality influences workers’ behavior and conflict resolution in a shared workspace. Results from a study with 16 participants, split into 8 pairs of workers, indicate that extraversion/introversion, in particular, was associated with differences in interaction strategies and perceptions of workload. Our findings suggest that future AR-enabled multiagent workflows should consider personality variability to better support collaborative settings.

BibTeX

				
					@INPROCEEDINGS{11681766,
  author={Heidrich, Sebastian and Saeedi-Givi, Christine and Liu, John and Bohné, Thomas and Forni, Fulvio and Tadeja, Sławomir},
  booktitle={2026 11th IEEE RAS/EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (BioRob)}, 
  title={Does Personality Matter in Robot-Moderated Collaboration? Exploring the Personality Role in AR-Enabled Human-to-Human Tasks}, 
  year={2026},
  pages={1230-1236},
  doi={10.1109/BioRob66782.2026.11681766}}

				
			
APA Reference

S. Heidrich, C. Saeedi-Givi, J. Liu, T. Bohné, F. Forni and S. Tadeja, “Does Personality Matter in Robot-Moderated Collaboration? Exploring the Personality Role in AR-Enabled Human-to-Human Tasks,” 2026 11th IEEE RAS/EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (BioRob), Edmonton, AB, Canada, 2026, pp. 1230-1236, doi: 10.1109/BioRob66782.2026.11681766.

Cyber-human Lab Contributors

Dr Sławomir Tadeja

Dr Slawomir K. Tadeja is a Postdoctoral Associate with the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Here, he works...

Christine Saeedi-Givi

Christine Saeedi-Givi is a doctoral researcher supervised by Prof. Thomas Bohné and Dr. Slawomir Tadeja. She studies how personalised, AI-supported training can help people...

Prof. Thomas Bohné

Thomas Bohné is the founder and head of the Cyber-Human Lab at the University of Cambridge’s Department of Engineering. He is also leading research...