Paper Info
Title
Elements of Humor: How Humans Perceive Verbal and Non-verbal Aspects of Humorous Robot Behavior.
Abstract
We performed a preliminary online survey to explore if verbal and non-verbal robot humor elements influence how humans rate a robot's funniness. The video-based survey comprised four conditions, each showing a short clip of a NAO robot in a receptionist scenario, showing different behavior. Although participants' ratings of the funniness level did not differ significantly between robot behaviors, we interpret this result as an indicator that humor is not made from single elements. Humor is multilayered and often only works when different signals are combined. Creating funny robots will require more detailed research on multimodal behaviors.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1145/3029798.3038337
HRI (Companion)
Keywords
Field
DocType
social HRI, robot humor, user experience
Nao robot,Simulation,Computer science,Nonverbal communication,Human–computer interaction,Behavior-based robotics,Robot
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
2167-2121
2
0.46
References 
Authors
7
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Nicole Mirnig17011.65
Gerald Stollnberger2376.79
Manuel Giuliani323820.89
Manfred Tscheligi42567570.72