@conference{Vanzan.Bedir.Maraev.Lagerstedt.Barthel.Howes_ISHS2025,
author = "Vanessa Vanzan and Talha Bedir and Vladislav Maraev and Erik Lagerstedt and Mathias Barthel and Christine Howes",
abstract = "Laughter in human conversation plays a key role in managing dialogue. In human-human interaction, a joke may lead to laughter and playful exchanges that shape the conversation, with each participant contributing to the dynamic social exchange. In contrast, laughter in interactions with home assistant agents is mostly reactive. We have investigated interactions from four households in which Amazon’s Alexa was introduced, observing that laughter in these ‘in-the-wild’ situations tends to occur in more socially complex situations than those captured by the taxonomies of Mazzocconi et al. (2020); Perkins Booker et al. (2024).",
booktitle = "International Society for Humor Studies Conference",
title = "`{A}lexa, are you prudish?' {L}aughter in {G}erman households with smart speakers",
url = "https://www.christinehowes.com/papers/Vanzan.etal_ISHS2025.pdf",
year = "2025",
}