Laughin'Cam: Active camera system to induce natural smiles

Ryohei Fushimi; Shogo Fukushima; Takeshi Naemura

doi:10.1145/2702613.2732721

Laughin'Cam: Active camera system to induce natural smiles

Ryohei Fushimi, Shogo Fukushima, Takeshi Naemura

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Abstract

When taking a photo, such verbal prompts as "cheese", or "smile", are often used by photographers to get natural smiles from their subjects. However, since the obtained smiles usually look forced or resemble a grimace, capturing a natural smile is difficult. We propose an active camera system called "Laughin'Cam", that obtains natural-looking portraits by eliciting spontaneous smiles by presenting the sound of laughter. The proposed system utilizes an emotional contagion effect, which is the tendency of emotional behavior to spread from person to person. We conducted an evaluation experiment with our proposed system using computer vision and also performed a subjective experiment. Our results suggested that our system could efficiently induce naturally-looking and spontaneous smiles.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CHI 2015 - Extended Abstracts Publication of the 33rd Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Subtitle of host publication	Crossings
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	1959-1964
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450331463
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2702613.2732721
Publication status	Published - Apr 18 2015
Externally published	Yes
Event	33rd Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2015 - Seoul, Korea, Republic of Duration: Apr 18 2015 → Apr 23 2015

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Name	Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings
Volume	18

Conference

Conference	33rd Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2015
Country/Territory	Korea, Republic of
City	Seoul
Period	4/18/15 → 4/23/15

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Software
Human-Computer Interaction
Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design

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Fushimi, R., Fukushima, S., & Naemura, T. (2015). Laughin'Cam: Active camera system to induce natural smiles. In CHI 2015 - Extended Abstracts Publication of the 33rd Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Crossings (pp. 1959-1964). (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings; Vol. 18). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/2702613.2732721

Laughin'Cam : Active camera system to induce natural smiles. / Fushimi, Ryohei; Fukushima, Shogo; Naemura, Takeshi.

CHI 2015 - Extended Abstracts Publication of the 33rd Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Crossings. Association for Computing Machinery, 2015. p. 1959-1964 (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings; Vol. 18).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Fushimi, R, Fukushima, S & Naemura, T 2015, Laughin'Cam: Active camera system to induce natural smiles. in CHI 2015 - Extended Abstracts Publication of the 33rd Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Crossings. Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings, vol. 18, Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 1959-1964, 33rd Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2015, Seoul, Korea, Republic of, 4/18/15. https://doi.org/10.1145/2702613.2732721

Fushimi R, Fukushima S, Naemura T. Laughin'Cam: Active camera system to induce natural smiles. In CHI 2015 - Extended Abstracts Publication of the 33rd Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Crossings. Association for Computing Machinery. 2015. p. 1959-1964. (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings). doi: 10.1145/2702613.2732721

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