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Jon the Robot Goes Hollywood

Published: 01 April 2020 Publication History

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Stand-up comedy performance is one interesting environment in which to evaluate social robot abilities; the natural format and expectations of the art form make it well suited for experimentation. We brought Jon the Robot, our autonomous robotic stand-up comedian, to over 20 performances in Los Angeles and recorded video footage from some of these performances. Our video is an entertaining compilation of this footage in a mock movie trailer format, including light details about the capabilities of the system.

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Kleomenis Katevas, Patrick GT Healey, and Matthew Tobias Harris. 2015. Robot Comedy Lab: experimenting with the social dynamics of live performance. Frontiers in Psychology, Vol. 6 (2015), 1253.
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Heather Knight, Scott Satkin, Varun Ramakrishna, and Santosh Divvala. 2011. A savvy robot standup comic: Online learning through audience tracking. In Workshop paper (TEI'10) .
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John Vilk and Naomi Fitter. 2020 a. Comedians in Cafes Getting Data: Comparing Performances of a Robotic Stand-up Comedian in the Wild. Accepted to the 2020 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI).
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John Vilk and Naomi Fitter. 2020 b. Comedy by Jon the Robot. Demonstration Submitted to the 2020 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI).

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HRI '20: Companion of the 2020 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction
March 2020
702 pages
ISBN:9781450370578
DOI:10.1145/3371382
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  1. human-robot interaction
  2. robot comedy
  3. social robots

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