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Activating Humans with Humor : A Dialogue System That Users Want to Interact with

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Title: Activating Humans with Humor : A Dialogue System That Users Want to Interact with
Authors: Dybala, Pawel Browse this author
Ptaszynski, Michal Browse this author
Rzepka, Rafal Browse this author
Araki, Kenji Browse this author →KAKEN DB
Keywords: Human-Computer Interaction
dialogue
AI and social sciences
psycholinguistics
Issue Date: 1-Dec-2009
Publisher: IEICE - Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers
Journal Title: IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems
Volume: E92D
Issue: 12
Start Page: 2394
End Page: 2401
Publisher DOI: 10.1587/transinf.E92.D.2394
Abstract: The topic of Human Computer Interaction (HCI) has been gathering more and more scientific attention of late. A very important, but often undervalued area in this field is human engagement. That is, a person's commitment to take part in and continue the interaction. In this paper we describe work on a humor-equipped casual conversational system (chatterbot) and investigate the effect of humor on a user's engagement in the conversation. A group of users was made to converse with two systems: one with and one without humor. The chat logs were then analyzed using an emotive analysis system to check user reactions and attitudes towards each system. Results were projected on Russell's two-dimensional emotiveness space to evaluate the positivity/negativity and activation/deactivation of these emotions. This analysis indicated emotions elicited by the humor-equipped system were more positively active and less negatively active than by the system without humor. The implications of results and relation between them and user engagement in the conversation are discussed. We also propose a distinction between positive and negative engagement.
Rights: Copyright © 2009 The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers
Relation: http://search.ieice.org/
Type: article
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2115/43082
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