Association Between Self-Perceived General Human-Likeness During Walking and Walking Speed in Stroke Patients: A Preliminary Study [PDF]
Rehabilitation Process and 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.
Kazuki Hayashida +5 more
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Robot Authority in Human-Robot Teaming: Effects of Human-Likeness and Physical Embodiment on Compliance [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 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 ...
Kerstin S. Haring +7 more
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I Am Looking for Your Mind: Pupil Dilation Predicts Individual Differences in Sensitivity to Hints of Human-Likeness in Robot Behavior [PDF]
Frontiers in Robotics and 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
Serena Marchesi +7 more
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Uncanny Valley in Conversation? Effects of Internal and External Human-Likeness on Intimacy and Trust [PDF]
Behavioral SciencesConversational 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 ...
Jungwoo Jang, Jae-gil Lee, Hayeon Song
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Calm beats cute: designing aesthetic-functional congruence in human-robot interaction for breathing companion robots [PDF]
Frontiers in CognitionIntroductionWhich 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?
Ilona Buchem +3 more
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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]
i-Perception, 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 ...
Stephanie Lay +3 more
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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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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
Alexander Diel +4 more
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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.
Julija Vaitonytė +3 more
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