I Am Looking for Your Mind: Pupil Dilation Predicts Individual Differences in Sensitivity to Hints of Human-Likeness in Robot Behavior. [PDF]
Front Robot AI, 2021 The presence of artificial agents in our everyday lives is continuously increasing. Hence, the question of how human social cognition mechanisms are activated in interactions with artificial agents, such as humanoid robots, is frequently being asked. One
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Association Between Self-Perceived General Human-Likeness During Walking and Walking Speed in Stroke Patients: A Preliminary Study. [PDF]
Rehabil Process Outcome, 2022 The difference between the walking speeds of stroke patients and the general population may influence the self-perception of patients, who perceive their walk as lacking general human-likeness.
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Robot Authority in Human-Robot Teaming: Effects of Human-Likeness and Physical Embodiment on Compliance. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2021 The anticipated social capabilities of robots may allow them to serve in authority roles as part of human-machine teams. To date, it is unclear if, and to what extent, human team members will comply with requests from their robotic teammates, and how ...
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Uncanny Valley in Conversation? Effects of Internal and External Human-Likeness on Intimacy and Trust. [PDF]
Behav Sci (Basel)Conversational agents built on large language models increasingly converse like humans, expressing emotions and disclosing their own experiences. Human-likeness, however, has been studied largely as a matter of appearance—how human an agent looks ...
Jang J, Lee JG, Song H.
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Calm beats cute: designing aesthetic-functional congruence in human-robot interaction for breathing companion robots [PDF]
Front CognitIntroductionWhich robot would you trust to guide you through a breathing exercise, a cute cartoon-like humanoid, a soft animal companion, a clinical mechanical device, or a serene meditative figure?
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The Ethical Significance of Human Likeness in Robotics and AI
Ethics in Progress, 2019 A defining goal of research in AI and robotics is to build technical artefacts as substitutes, assistants or enhancements of human action and decision-making.
Peter Remmers
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Circling Around the Uncanny Valley: Design Principles for Research Into the Relation Between Human Likeness and Eeriness. [PDF]
Iperception, 2016 The uncanny valley effect (UVE) is a negative emotional response experienced when encountering entities that appear almost human. Research on the UVE typically investigates individual, or collections of, near human entities but may be prone to ...
Lay S, Brace N, Pike G, Pollick F.
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The inversion effect on the cubic humanness-uncanniness relation in humanlike agents
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 The uncanny valley describes the typically nonlinear relation between the esthetic appeal of artificial entities and their human likeness. The effect has been attributed to specialized (configural) processing that increases sensitivity to deviations from
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St. Maxim the Confessor’s Doctrine of the Image and Likeness to God in Man: Aspect of Synergia [PDF]
Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Серия I. Богословие, философия, 2017 St. Maximus the Confessor makes a distinction between “image” and “likeness” to God in man. The “image of God” pertains to human nature in general, whereas the “likeness to God” is a realisation and fulfillment of this “image” in each particular ...
Malkov Petr
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Realism of the face lies in skin and eyes: Evidence from virtual and human agents
Computers in Human Behavior Reports, 2021 Despite advancements in computer graphics and artificial intelligence, it remains unclear which aspects of intelligent virtual agents (IVAs) make them identifiable as human-like agents.
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