Laughter is a social signal capable of facilitating interaction in groups of people: it communicates interest, helps to improve creativity, and facilitates sociability. This article focuses on: endowing virtual characters with computational models of laughter synthesis, based on an expressivity-copying paradigm; evaluating how the physically co-presence of the laughing character impacts on the user's perception of an audio stimulus and mood. We adopt music as a means to stimulate laughter. Results show that the character presence influences the user's perception of music and mood. Expressivity-copying has an influence on the user's perception of music, but does not have any significant impact on mood.

Implementing and evaluating a laughing virtual character / Mancini, Maurizio; Biancardi, Beatrice; Pecune, Florian; Varni, Giovanna; Ding, Yu; Pelachaud, Catherine; Volpe, Gualtiero; Camurri, Antonio. - In: ACM TRANSACTIONS ON INTERNET TECHNOLOGY. - ISSN 1533-5399. - 17:(2017), pp. 1-22. [10.1145/2998571]

Implementing and evaluating a laughing virtual character

Mancini, Maurizio;Volpe, Gualtiero;
2017

Abstract

Laughter is a social signal capable of facilitating interaction in groups of people: it communicates interest, helps to improve creativity, and facilitates sociability. This article focuses on: endowing virtual characters with computational models of laughter synthesis, based on an expressivity-copying paradigm; evaluating how the physically co-presence of the laughing character impacts on the user's perception of an audio stimulus and mood. We adopt music as a means to stimulate laughter. Results show that the character presence influences the user's perception of music and mood. Expressivity-copying has an influence on the user's perception of music, but does not have any significant impact on mood.
2017
Evaluation; Hci; Laughter; System; Virtual character; Computer Networks and Communications
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Implementing and evaluating a laughing virtual character / Mancini, Maurizio; Biancardi, Beatrice; Pecune, Florian; Varni, Giovanna; Ding, Yu; Pelachaud, Catherine; Volpe, Gualtiero; Camurri, Antonio. - In: ACM TRANSACTIONS ON INTERNET TECHNOLOGY. - ISSN 1533-5399. - 17:(2017), pp. 1-22. [10.1145/2998571]
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