Paper Info
Title
Nonverbal Humor As A New Dimension Of Hri
Abstract
While humor is an important aspect of human interaction, this topic has been largely neglected in the field of robotic research. Apart from single text-based humor production systems, non-verbal humor based on gestures, facial expressions, or whole body movements has not been the target of HRI-research so far. In this paper, we present our results on the effects of nonverbal humor displayed by a service robot. Participants were served by a conventional and a "funny" robot in our experiment. The humorous robot exerted four different kinds of nonverbal humor during the interaction process whereas the conventional robot simply delivered the requested objects. The users' ratings demonstrate the positive effect of humor on the evaluation of different characteristics of the robot, as well as on the perceived interaction quality. To our knowledge, the study described here is the first to investigate the effect of behavioral humor produced by a robot.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1109/ROMAN.2009.5326230
RO-MAN 2009: THE 18TH IEEE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON ROBOT AND HUMAN INTERACTIVE COMMUNICATION, VOLS 1 AND 2
Keywords
Field
DocType
production,facial expression,human robot interaction,production system,data mining,facial expressions,human interaction
Computer vision,Computer science,Gesture,Simulation,Nonverbal communication,Human interaction,Facial expression,Artificial intelligence,Robot,Grippers,Human–robot interaction,Service robot
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
7
0.65
2
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Cornelia Wendt1162.43
Guy Berg2151.69