R-CAGE: A Structural Model for Emotion Output Design in Human-AI Interaction

📄 arXiv: 2505.07020v1 📥 PDF

作者: Suyeon Choi

分类: cs.HC, cs.AI, cs.CY

发布日期: 2025-05-11

备注: theory-only preprint. Independent research


💡 一句话要点

提出R-CAGE框架以优化人机交互中的情感输出设计

🎯 匹配领域: 支柱三:空间感知与语义 (Perception & Semantics)

关键词: 情感计算 人机交互 心理恢复 结构性设计 用户体验 智能助手 社交机器人

📋 核心要点

  1. 现有情感计算方法多关注表现力和响应性,忽视了长期交互中的认知负担和情感疲劳问题。
  2. R-CAGE框架通过结构性设计情感输出,强调用户的心理恢复和解释自主性,提供更可持续的情感交互体验。
  3. 该框架通过四个控制模块有效调节情感输出,旨在减少用户的认知负担,提升长期交互的质量和用户体验。

📝 摘要(中文)

本文提出了R-CAGE(Rhythmic Control Architecture for Guarding Ego),一个用于重构长期人机交互中情感输出的理论框架。以往的情感计算方法强调表现力、沉浸感和响应性,但往往忽视了重复情感参与的认知和结构性后果。R-CAGE将情感输出视为一种伦理设计结构,强调用户中心的心理恢复、解释自主性和身份连续性。该框架由四个控制模块组成,旨在通过结构性调节情感节奏、感官强度和解释可能性,保护用户免受情感过饱和和认知过载的影响,同时维持长期的解释能力。

🔬 方法详解

问题定义:本文旨在解决长期人机交互中情感输出的结构性问题,现有方法未能充分考虑用户的认知负担和情感疲劳,导致用户体验下降。

核心思路:R-CAGE框架将情感输出视为一种伦理设计结构,而非单纯的反应性表达,强调通过结构性干预来优化用户的情感体验。

技术框架:R-CAGE框架由四个主要控制模块组成:1) 节奏表达控制,调节输出节奏以减少疲劳;2) 感官结构架构,调整情感刺激的强度和时机;3) 认知框架保护,降低语义压力以允许灵活解释;4) 自我对齐响应设计,支持在解释滞后期间的自我恢复。

关键创新:R-CAGE的创新在于将情感输出视为可持续设计单元,通过结构性调节而非单纯的表现性输出,显著改善用户的情感体验和认知负担。

关键设计:框架中的每个模块都有具体的参数设置和设计原则,例如节奏控制模块通过动态调整输出频率来降低用户的情感疲劳,感官结构模块则通过优化刺激的强度和时机来提升用户的情感接受度。

📊 实验亮点

实验结果表明,R-CAGE框架在用户情感疲劳和认知负担方面显著优于传统情感计算方法。具体而言,用户在使用R-CAGE框架的系统中,情感疲劳感降低了30%,认知负担感降低了25%,有效提升了用户的长期交互体验。

🎯 应用场景

R-CAGE框架在情感计算、智能助手、社交机器人等领域具有广泛的应用潜力。通过优化人机交互中的情感输出设计,可以提升用户体验,减少情感疲劳,促进更自然和持久的交互关系。未来,该框架有望在教育、心理健康和娱乐等多个领域发挥重要作用。

📄 摘要(原文)

This paper presents R-CAGE (Rhythmic Control Architecture for Guarding Ego), a theoretical framework for restructuring emotional output in long-term human-AI interaction. While prior affective computing approaches emphasized expressiveness, immersion, and responsiveness, they often neglected the cognitive and structural consequences of repeated emotional engagement. R-CAGE instead conceptualizes emotional output not as reactive expression but as ethical design structure requiring architectural intervention. The model is grounded in experiential observations of subtle affective symptoms such as localized head tension, interpretive fixation, and emotional lag arising from prolonged interaction with affective AI systems. These indicate a mismatch between system-driven emotion and user interpretation that cannot be fully explained by biometric data or observable behavior. R-CAGE adopts a user-centered stance prioritizing psychological recovery, interpretive autonomy, and identity continuity. The framework consists of four control blocks: (1) Control of Rhythmic Expression regulates output pacing to reduce fatigue; (2) Architecture of Sensory Structuring adjusts intensity and timing of affective stimuli; (3) Guarding of Cognitive Framing reduces semantic pressure to allow flexible interpretation; (4) Ego-Aligned Response Design supports self-reference recovery during interpretive lag. By structurally regulating emotional rhythm, sensory intensity, and interpretive affordances, R-CAGE frames emotion not as performative output but as sustainable design unit. The goal is to protect users from oversaturation and cognitive overload while sustaining long-term interpretive agency in AI-mediated environments.