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No joking aside: using humor to establish sociality in HRI

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HRI '14: Proceedings of the 2014 ACM/IEEE international conference on Human-robot interaction

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https://doi.org/10.1145/2559636.2559813

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This paper shows how humor can be used as an interaction pattern to help establish sociality in human-robot interaction. Drawing illustratively from our published research on people interacting with ATR's humanoid robot Robovie, we highlight four forms of humor that we successfully implemented: wit and the ice-breaker, corny joke, subtle humor, and dry humor and self-deprecation.

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