Conversational Agents, Humorous Act Construction, and Social Intelligence

Nijholt, Anton (2005) Conversational Agents, Humorous Act Construction, and Social Intelligence. In: Adaptation in Artificial and Biological Systems, AISB 2005 : Social Intelligence and Interaction in Animals, Robots and Agents, 12-15 April 2005, Hatfield, UK.

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Abstract:	Humans use humour to ease communication problems in human-human interaction and in a similar way humour can be used to solve communication problems that arise with human-computer interaction. We discuss the role of embodied conversational agents in human-computer interaction and we have observations on the generation of humorous acts and on the appropriateness of displaying them by embodied conversational agents in order to smoothen, when necessary, their interactions with a human partner. The humorous acts we consider are generated spontaneously. They are the product of an appraisal of the conversational situation and the possibility to generate a humorous act from the elements that make up this conversational situation, in particular the interaction history of the conversational partners.
Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item
Faculty:	Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science (EEMCS)
Research Group:	Human Media Interaction (HMI)
Link to this item:	http://purl.utwente.nl/publications/65568
Proceedings URL:	http://http://www.aisb.org.uk/publications/convention-proceedings
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