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Chat-type Manzai application: mobile daily comedy presentations based on automatically generated manzai scenarios

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We have proposed and demonstrate Manzai robots that automatically generate Manzai scenarios. Manzai is a Japanese traditional comedy consisting of two comedians with funny dialogues like stand up comedy. Our Manzai robots are a huge system, but it is not easy for users to watch Manzai every day using our Manzai robots. As described herein, we propose a mobile style of presenting our automatically generated Manzai anytime and anywhere using a web application. We designate the application as a Chat-type Manzai Application. The Chat-type Manzai Application is intended to make people healthier by laughing as they relax and watch the Manzai. However, the Chat-type Manzai Application loses direction. Therefore, we propose a new dialogue component: the Name list component. We used experiments of three types to measure the benefits of our proposed application and component.

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        MoMM '20: Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing & Multimedia
        November 2020
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        1. Manzai
        2. comedy
        3. dialogue genaration
        4. mental health care
        5. scenario
        6. web application

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        • (2024)Evaluation of Prosodic Features Suitable for Conversational Agents Replying with a JokeJournal of Information Processing10.2197/ipsjjip.32.3532(35-40)Online publication date: 2024
        • (2022)A System for Generating Interactive Japanese Traditional Comedy Using Smart SpeakerHCI International 2022 Posters10.1007/978-3-031-06391-6_34(256-261)Online publication date: 16-Jun-2022
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