Self-disclosure decision making based on intimacy and privacy

  • Authors:

  • Jose M. Such;AgustíN Espinosa;Ana GarcíA-Fornes;Carles Sierra

  • Affiliations:

  • Departament de Sistemes Informítics i Computació, Universitat Politècnica de València, Camí de Vera s/n, València, Spain;Departament de Sistemes Informítics i Computació, Universitat Politècnica de València, Camí de Vera s/n, València, Spain;Departament de Sistemes Informítics i Computació, Universitat Politècnica de València, Camí de Vera s/n, València, Spain;Institut d'Investigació en Intel.ligència Artificial, IIIA, Spanish Scientific Research Council, CSIC, Campus UAB, 08193 Bellaterra, Catalonia, Spain

  • Venue:
  • Information Sciences: an International Journal
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Autonomous agents may encapsulate their principals' personal data attributes. These attributes may be disclosed to other agents during agent interactions, producing a loss of privacy. Thus, agents need self-disclosure decision-making mechanisms to autonomously decide whether disclosing personal data attributes to other agents is acceptable or not. Current self-disclosure decision-making mechanisms consider the direct benefit and the privacy loss of disclosing an attribute. However, there are many situations in which the direct benefit of disclosing an attribute is a priori unknown. This is the case in human relationships, where the disclosure of personal data attributes plays a crucial role in their development. In this paper, we present self-disclosure decision-making mechanisms based on psychological findings regarding how humans disclose personal information in the building of their relationships. We experimentally demonstrate that, in most situations, agents following these decision-making mechanisms lose less privacy than agents that do not use them.