Agentic Social Affordance Framework (ASAF): Agent Identity Design as a Collaboration Interface in Multi-Agent Systems

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2606.09832v1
• Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2026 13:52:36 GMT
• Title: Agentic Social Affordance Framework (ASAF): Agent Identity Design as a Collaboration Interface in Multi-Agent Systems
• Abstract summary: This paper introduces the Agentic Social Affordance Framework (ASAF), a theoretical framework that extends Social Affordance theory into the context of multi-agent AI systems.<n>We propose that agent identity design functions not merely as a user interface convention, but as a collaboration interface -- structuring how users perceive, approach, and engage with each agent.
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• Abstract: As AI systems evolve from single conversational agents to complex multi-agent architectures, a critical design dimension has been overlooked: how the social identity of individual agents shapes human behavior within the collaboration. This paper introduces the Agentic Social Affordance Framework (ASAF), a theoretical framework that extends Social Affordance theory into the context of multi-agent AI systems. We propose that agent identity design functions not merely as a user interface convention, but as a collaboration interface -- structuring how users perceive, approach, and engage with each agent, and thereby influencing the quality of Human-Agent collaboration outcomes. Specifically, the social affordance layer constitutes an independent design dimension orthogonal to engineering orchestration: the two represent distinct decision spaces that cannot be derived from each other. ASAF comprises three mechanisms: Identity Signaling, Behavioral Priming, and Collaborative Governance, and specifies their boundary conditions through a four-tier Identity Signal Fidelity Spectrum and an individual-difference moderating variable (anthropomorphizing vs.\ instrumentalizing cognitive style). We situate ASAF in relation to existing affordance theory and the CASA paradigm, delineating where ASAF's multi-agent, topology-level predictions exceed the explanatory scope of dyadic frameworks. We discuss implications for multi-agent system design and outline directions for future empirical validation, including a factorial design for testing design-space orthogonality.

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