The Relationship Between Laughter and Computers

In the depths of pandemic, when we're working through screens, you just laugh a bit less partly because the lack of synchrony. I think it's particularly bad for laughter because laughter is a social behavior. Even though you could be having a very positive interaction with somebody in a face-to-face computer-based environment, even if you are both laughing at the same time, it's unlikely that you can hear it or have a sense of it really feeling shared.