@inproceedings{3a572039fdd640de970fe1dd2155583e,
title = "Humor as an Ostensive Challenge that Displays Mind-Reading Ability",
abstract = "Understanding humor in human social interaction is a pre- requisite to the creation of engaging interactions between humans and digital assistants, embodied conversational agents and social robots. As these HCI methods become more prevalent and pervasive, more advanced conversational discourse abilities will be required. However, many models of dialogue and human communication used in computer science remain based upon out-dated understanding of the manner in which humans communicate with one another. This paper addresses these issues in- troducing a view of communication based on Relevance theory and the Analogical Peacock Hypothesis in which humor and humorous interac- tions are viewed as ostensive challenges inviting the receiver of a com- munication to engage in greater levels of cognitive processing and effort to resolve the challenge set by a humorous display. The increased effort is rewarded with positive socio-cognitive effects—a humorous payoff and knowledge of the mind-reading abilities of the humor producer.",
author = "Gary McKeown",
year = "2017",
month = jun,
day = "22",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-319-58697-7_47",
language = "English",
isbn = "9783319586960",
series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)",
publisher = "Springer-Verlag",
pages = "627--639",
editor = "Streitz, {Norbert } and Panos Markopoulos",
booktitle = "Distributed, Ambient and Pervasive Interactions: 5th International Conference, DAPI 2017, Held as Part of HCI International 2017, Vancouver, BC, Canada, July 9–14, 2017, Proceedings",
note = "5th International Conference on Distributed, Ambient and Pervasive Interactions, DAPI 2017 ; Conference date: 09-07-2017 Through 14-07-2017",
}