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Humoroids: conversational agents that induce positive emotions with humor

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Proceedings of The 8th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 2 table of contents

Budapest, Hungary

SESSION: Environments table of contents

Pages 1171-1172

Year of Publication: 2009

ISBN:978-0-9817381-7-8

Authors

Pawel Dybala	Hokkaido University, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Japan
Michal Ptaszynski	Hokkaido University, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Japan
Rafal Rzepka	Hokkaido University, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Japan
Kenji Araki	Hokkaido University, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Japan

Sponsors

: The Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents
Microsoft Research : Microsoft Research
: Whitestein Technologies
: European Office of Aerospace Research and Development, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, United States Air Force Research Laboratory
: Drexel University
: Wiley -- Blackwell Ltd

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International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems Richland, SC

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ABSTRACT

In this paper we propose a definition of "Humoroids" -- a new class of humor-equipped talking agents. We summarize existing research, discuss the concept of Humoroids and introduce our pun-telling agent, which (as shown in an evaluation experiment) induces positive emotion in human interlocutors.

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