Host: The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
Name : [in Japanese]
Date : October 08, 2016 - October 10, 2016
Laughing response plays an important role in supporting human interaction and communication, and enhances empathy by sharing laughter each other. Therefore, in order to develop communication systems which enhance empathy, it is desired to design the media representation using the pupil response which is related to affective responses such as pleasure-unpleasure. Focusing on the pupil response, we developed a pupil response system for inducing empathy by laughing response using hemispherical displays. The system generates both pupil response and laughing response on the basis of speech input. In addition, the responses can bring favorable impressions to talkers. In this paper, we carry out the communication experiment and evaluate the developed system to comfirm the effects of the system. The results demonstrate that the dilated pupil response with laughing response is effective for enhancing empathy.
