Laugh-aware virtual agent and its impact on user amusement

Radosław Niewiadomski; Jennifer Hofmann; Jérôme Urbain; Tracey Platt; Johannes Wagner; Bilal Piot; Huseyin Cakmak; Sathish Pammi; Tobias Baur; Stephane Dupont; Matthieu Geist; Florian Lingenfelser; Gary McKeown; Olivier Pietquin; Willibald Ruch

Laugh-aware virtual agent and its impact on user amusement

Radosław Niewiadomski, Jennifer Hofmann, Jérôme Urbain, Tracey Platt, Johannes Wagner, Bilal Piot, Huseyin Cakmak, Sathish Pammi, Tobias Baur, Stephane Dupont, Matthieu Geist, Florian Lingenfelser, Gary McKeown, Olivier Pietquin, Willibald Ruch

School of Psychology

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Abstract

In this paper we present a complete interactive system en- abled to detect human laughs and respond appropriately, by integrating the information of the human behavior and the context. Furthermore, the impact of our autonomous laughter-aware agent on the humor experience of the user and interaction between user and agent is evaluated by sub- jective and objective means. Preliminary results show that the laughter-aware agent increases the humor experience (i.e., felt amusement of the user and the funniness rating of the film clip), and creates the notion of a shared social experience, indicating that the agent is useful to elicit posi- tive humor-related affect and emotional contagion.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 2013 international conference on Autonomous agents and multi-agent systems
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	619-626
Number of pages	8
Publication status	Published - 2013

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Niewiadomski, R., Hofmann, J., Urbain, J., Platt, T., Wagner, J., Piot, B., Cakmak, H., Pammi, S., Baur, T., Dupont, S., Geist, M., Lingenfelser, F., McKeown, G., Pietquin, O., & Ruch, W. (2013). Laugh-aware virtual agent and its impact on user amusement. In Proceedings of the 2013 international conference on Autonomous agents and multi-agent systems (pp. 619-626). Association for Computing Machinery.

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Laugh-aware virtual agent and its impact on user amusement

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