ISCA Archive LW 2020
ISCA Archive LW 2020

Analysis of Laughter in Cohesive Groups

Reshmashree Bangalore Kantharaju, Catherine Pelachaud

Group cohesion describes the tendency of the group members' shared commitment to group tasks and the interpersonal attraction among them. This paper presents a preliminary analysis of occurrence of laughter with respect to group cohesion using a corpus of multi-party interactions. Results indicate that the occurrence of laughter is higher in cohesive segments and a strong positive correlation exists between the perceived level of cohesion and laughter.