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Toward Robotic Socially Believable Behaving Systems - Volume I

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Abstract

Laughter is everywhere. So much so that we often do not even notice it. First, laughter has a strong connection with humour. Most of us seek out laughter and people who make us laugh, and it is what we do when we gather together as groups relaxing and having a good time. But laughter also plays an important role in making sure we interact with each other smoothly. It provides social bonding signals that allow our conversations to flow seamlessly between topics; to help us repair conversations that are breaking down; and to end our conversations on a positive note.

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Notes

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    http://www.ilhaire.eu/.

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    Laughter elements correspond to individual bursts of energy, whose succession is characteristic of laughter.

  3. 3.

    http://www.qub.ac.uk/ilhairelaughter.

  4. 4.

    http://www.cantoche.com/.

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We would like to acknowledge all colleagues within the ILHAIRE project, from the following partner organisations: University of Mons (Belgium), Télécom ParisTech / Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (France), University of Augsburg (Germany), Università degli Studi of Genova (Italy), University College London (United Kingdom), Queens̀ University ‘Belfast (United Kingdom), University of Zurich (Switzerland), Supélec (France), Cantoche (France), University of Lille (France). Our thanks go to Laurent Ach, Elisabeth André, Hane Aung, Emeline Bantegnie, Tobias Baur, Nadia Berthouze, Antonio Camurri, Gerard Chollet, Roddy Cowie, Will Curran, Yu Ding, Stéphane Dupont, Thierry Dutoit, Matthieu Geist, Harry Griffin, Jing Huang, Jennifer Hofmann, Florian Lingenfelser, Anh Tu Mai, Maurizio Mancini, Gary McKeown, Benoît Morel, Radoslaw Niewiadomski, Sathish Pammi, Catherine Pelachaud, Olivier Pietquin, Bilal Piot, Tracey Platt, Bingqing Qu, Johannes Wagner, Willibald Ruch, Abhisheck Sharma, Lesley Storey, Jérôme Urbain, Giovanna Varni, Gualtiero Volpe, and their colleagues and co-authors. They all contributed to the initial ideas, to the teambuilding, or to the scientific/research developments within the project. The research leading to these results has received funding from the EU Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007–2013) under grant nbr. 270780 (ILHAIRE project).

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Dupont, S. et al. (2016). Laughter Research: A Review of the ILHAIRE Project. In: Esposito, A., Jain, L. (eds) Toward Robotic Socially Believable Behaving Systems - Volume I . Intelligent Systems Reference Library, vol 105. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31056-5_9

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