Laugh-aware virtual agent and its impact on user amusement

Authors:
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
Affiliations:
Telecom ParisTech, 75014 Paris, France;Universitat Zurich, 8050 Zurich, Switzerland;Universite de Mons, 7000 Mons, Belgium;Universitat Zurich, 8050 Zurich, Switzerland;Universitat Augsburg, 86159 Augsburg, Germany;Supelec, 57340 Metz, France;Universite de Mons, Mons, Belgium;Telecom ParisTech, 75014 Paris, France;Universitat Augsburg, 86159 Augsburg, Germany;Universite de Mons, 7000 Mons, Belgium;Supelec, 57340 Metz, France;Universitat Augsburg, 86159 Augsburg, Germany;QUB, Belfast, Gt Britain;Supelec, 57340 Metz, France;Universitat Zurich, 8050 Zurich, Switzerland
Venue:
Proceedings of the 2013 international conference on Autonomous agents and multi-agent systems
Year:
2013

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Abstract

In this paper we present a complete interactive system enabled 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 subjective 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 positive humor-related affect and emotional contagion.