The influence of a virtual companion on amusement when watching funny films

Hofmann, Jennifer; Platt, Tracey; Ruch, Willibald; Niewiadomski, Radosław; Urbain, Jérôme

doi:10.1007/s11031-014-9461-y

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“…The results of several studies have shown that trait cheerfulness predicts how much individuals profit from humor interventions (e.g., Hofmann et al 2015;Papousek and Schulter 2008). Therefore, it might be considered that trait cheerful individuals respond differently compared to non-trait cheerful individuals when being confronted with a humor intervention.…”

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Training the sense of humor with the 7 Humor Habits Program and satisfaction with life

Ruch

Hofmann

Rusch

et al. 2018

Humor

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The current study tested the 7 Humor Habits Program after McGhee (1996, Health, healing, and the amuse system (2. edition): Humor as survival training. Dubuque, IA: Kendall/Hunt Publishing; 2010, Humor as survival training for a stressed-out world: The 7 Humor Habits Program. Bloomington, IN: Author House) in two groups receiving the eight-week training (group sessions; one group additionally completing “Home Play” exercises and one group without Home Play) compared to two control groups (a placebo humor group and a waiting control group). The total sample of 110 adults completed measures on the sense of humor, the temperamental basis of the sense of humor, and life satisfaction at three time points: directly before and after the training time, as well as at a two-month follow up. Additionally, peer-ratings on the sense of humor were collected. At each session, the humor-related mood (state cheerfulness, seriousness, and bad mood) was assessed before and after the session. Results show that the sense of humor is malleable, noticeable to the trained individuals as well as to peers (but not in the placebo humor group). The sessions increased cheerful mood and decreased seriousness. Life satisfaction generally increased from the pre-training phase to the post-training phase. To conclude, humor can be trained but more work on consolidation strategies are needed in future studies and intervention designs.

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Training the sense of humor with the 7 Humor Habits Program and satisfaction with life

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Hofmann

Rusch

et al. 2018

Humor

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“…This would lead to increased naturalness, as well as impacts on people. Positive mood changes induced by conversational systems equipped with laughter have been demonstrated within ILHAIRE and by others in media consumption setups [131,79,46,35], "affective" installations [77,117,92], and experiments are also covering games with a virtual conversational agent [65]. More specifically, in Niewiadomski et al [79], Hofmann et al [46], When a virtual agent was interactively responding to laughter, the level of contagion associated with spontaneous laughter as well as exhilaration was experienced by the users (Niewiadomski et al [79], Hofmann et al [46]).…”

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confidence: 92%

Laughter Research: A Review of the ILHAIRE Project

Dupont

Çakmak

Curran

et al. 2016

Toward Robotic Socially Believable Behaving Systems - Volume I

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“…In this case, mutual dependencies and closeness are built between a virtual companion and the user. Last, a past research conducted by Hofmann et al [27] approved that "the presence of a virtual companion (compared to being alone)" led to a higher level of cheerfulness for individuals watching a comedy film. As a result, applying a virtual character properly in an interactive scenario, which functions as both a guide and a companion, may reduce the users' feeling of loneliness and enhance their level of enjoyment.…”

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Effects of Character Guide in Immersive Virtual Reality Stories

Qing-lin

Ragan

2019

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Bringing cinematic experiences from traditional film screens into Virtual Reality (VR) has become an increasingly popular form of entertainment in recent years. VR provides viewers unprecedented film experience that allows them to freely explore around the environment and even interact with virtual props and characters. For the audience, this kind of experience raises their sense of presence in a different world, and may even stimulate their full immersion in story scenarios. However, different from traditional film-making, where the audience is completely passive in following along director's decisions of storytelling, more freedom in VR might cause viewers to get lost on halfway watching a series of events that build up a story. Therefore, striking a balance between user interaction and narrative progression is a big challenge for filmmakers. To assist in organizing the research space, we presented a media review and the resulting framework to characterize the primary differences among different variations of film, media, games, and VR storytelling. The evaluation in particular provided us with knowledge that were closely associated with story-progression strategies and gaze redirection methods for interactive content in the commercial domain. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I would like to thank my committee chair, Dr. Eric Ragan, for his continuous guidance and support throughout the course of my thesis research. I am beyond grateful for the time he spent working with me, his patience and advice. I also appreciate my committee co-chair, Dr. Ann McNamara, and my committee member, Dr. Jing Du, for guiding me through and showing me different perspectives during my thesis work. Thanks also go to my friends and the department faculty and staff for making my time at Texas A&M University a valuable experience. Finally, thanks to my family back in China for their love, encouragement and support.

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The influence of a virtual companion on amusement when watching funny films

Cited by 32 publications

References 41 publications

Training the sense of humor with the 7 Humor Habits Program and satisfaction with life

Training the sense of humor with the 7 Humor Habits Program and satisfaction with life

Laughter Research: A Review of the ILHAIRE Project

Effects of Character Guide in Immersive Virtual Reality Stories

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