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Humorized Computational Intelligence towards User-Adapted Systems with a Sense of Humor

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Applications of Evolutionary Computing (EvoWorkshops 2009)

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This paper investigates the role of humor in non-task oriented (topic restriction free) human-computer dialogue, as well as the correlation between humor and emotions elicited by it in users. A joke-telling conversational system, constructed for the needs of this research, was evaluated by the users as better and more human-like than a baseline system without humor. Automatic emotive evaluation with the usage of an emotiveness analysis system showed that the system with humor elicited more emotions than the other one, and most of them (almost 80%) were positive. This shows that the presence of humor makes computers easier to familiarize with and simply makes users feel better. Therefore, humor should be taken into consideration in research on user-friendly applications, as it enhances the interaction between user and system. The results are discussed and our concept of a user-adapted humor-equipped system is presented.

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  1. Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Hokkaido University, Kita 14 Nishi 9, Kita-ku, 060-0814, Sapporo, Japan

    Pawel Dybala, Michal Ptaszynski, Rafal Rzepka & Kenji Araki

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  2. Quinn School of Business, Belfield, University College Dublin, Dublin 4, Ireland

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  3. Department of Computer Engineering, University of Parma, Viale Usberti 181/a, 43100, Parma, Italy

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  4. Dalla Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence (IDSIA), Gallelria 2, 6928, Manno-Lugano, Switzerland

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  5. School of Engineering and Applied Science,Aston Triangle, Aston University, B4 7ET, Birmingham, UK

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  6. Complex Adaptive Systems Group, Instituto Tecnológico de Informática, Ciudad PolitŽcnica de la Innovacin, Edif. 8G Acceso B, 46022, Valencia, Spain

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Dybala, P., Ptaszynski, M., Rzepka, R., Araki, K. (2009). Humorized Computational Intelligence towards User-Adapted Systems with a Sense of Humor. In: Giacobini, M., et al. Applications of Evolutionary Computing. EvoWorkshops 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5484. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-01129-0_51

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