Password Swordsfish: Verbal Humour in the Interface

Humour will be a necessity in future interfaces, especially in the area at the cross-roads of entertainment and education, the so called ‘edutainment’. Some consideration on the state of the art in natural language processing and on computational humour prospects are presented, as well as some ideas for the introduction of certain types of computational humour in seductive interfaces. In doing that, reference is made to some of the sparkling exchanges of the Marx Brother