Harry Griffin, UCLIC, ILHAIRE – The Science of Laughter
The ILHAIRE project (www.ilhaire.eu) brings together Psychology and Human-Computer Interaction to investigate how we can incorporate laughter into our interactions with computer-generated characters. Capturing different types of genuine, spontaneous laughs was an essential first step in modelling how laughter can be integrated naturally into conversations with artificial agents. Encouraging laughter in an experimental setting with lots of video, audio and body-movement recording equipment was a challenge. As you can hear from the clip of our participants playing Pictionary, a playful task combined with an exhilarating sense of urgency seemed to work! www.uclic.ucl.ac.uk/
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