A laughing-driven pupil response system for inducing empathy

Abstract

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 response such as pleasure-unpleasure. In this paper, we aim to enhance empathy during human and robot interaction and communication, and develop a pupil response system for inducing empathy by laughing response using hemispherical display. In addition, we evaluate the pupil response with the laughing response by using the developed system. The results demonstrate that the dilated pupil response with laughing response is effective for enhancing empathy.