Human Perception of Laughter from Context-Free Whole Body Motion Dynamic Stimuli

Laughter is a ubiquitous social signal in human interactions yet it remains understudied from a scientific point of view. The need to understand laughter and its role in human interactions has become more pressing as the ability to create conversational agents capable of interacting with humans has...

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Main Authors: McKeown, Gary, Curran, William, Kane, Denise, Mccahon, Rebecca, Griffin, Harry J., McLoughlin, Ciaran, Bianchi-Berthouze, Nadia
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Animation
Atmospheric measurements
body movement
Context
Correlation
laughter
laughter perception
motion capture
Particle measurements
Pathology
personality
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Summary:Laughter is a ubiquitous social signal in human interactions yet it remains understudied from a scientific point of view. The need to understand laughter and its role in human interactions has become more pressing as the ability to create conversational agents capable of interacting with humans has come closer to a reality. This paper reports on three aspects of the human perception of laughter when context has been removed and only the body information from the laughter episode remains. We report on ability to categorise the laugh type and the sex of the laugher, the relationship between personality factors with laughter categorisation and perception, and finally the importance of intensity in the perception and categorisation of laughter.
ISSN:2156-8103
2156-8111
DOI:10.1109/ACII.2013.57