From Word Play to World Play: Introducing Humor in Human-Computer Interaction

Anton Nijholt

doi:10.1145/3232078.3232239

From Word Play to World Play: Introducing Humor in Human-Computer Interaction

Anton Nijholt

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Abstract

Humor is important in our life, whether it is at home, at work, or in public spaces. Smart technology is increasingly becoming part of our daily life. Can smart technology, sensors and actuators, not only be used to introduce smartness in our environments, but also to introduce amusement? So far understanding of humor has escaped algorithmic approaches. Nevertheless, humor research knowledge is available and is increasing. First philosophers, then psychologists, then linguists and AI researchers made humor topic of their research. The aim of this paper is to introduce humor research to the human-computer interaction community. In particular we look at how our digitally enhanced physical worlds, or smart environments, can facilitate humor creation.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 36th European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics (ECCE'18)
Place of Publication	New York
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Number of pages	8
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-4503-6449-2
ISBN (Print)	9781450364492
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3232078.3232239
Publication status	Published - 5 Sep 2018
Event	36th European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics 2018 - Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands Duration: 5 Sep 2018 → 7 Sep 2018 Conference number: 36 http://profi.cs.uu.nl/ecce2018/

Conference

Conference	36th European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics 2018
Abbreviated title	ECCE 2018
Country	Netherlands
City	Utrecht
Period	5/09/18 → 7/09/18
Internet address	http://profi.cs.uu.nl/ecce2018/

Keywords

Human-robot interaction
Humor
Humor support
Intentional humor
Smart environments
Unintentional humor

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Nijholt, A. (2018). From Word Play to World Play: Introducing Humor in Human-Computer Interaction. In Proceedings of the 36th European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics (ECCE'18) [1] New York: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). https://doi.org/10.1145/3232078.3232239

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