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Walking in the Uncanny Valley: Importance of the Attractiveness on the Acceptance of a Robot as a Working Partner [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2015 The Uncanny valley theory, which tells us that almost-human characteristics in a robot or a device could cause uneasiness in human observers, is an important research theme in the Human Robot Interaction (HRI) field.
Matthieu eDestephe +6 more
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Exploring expressed concerns and uncanny feeling in patients with shortness of breath calling out-of-hours primary care [PDF]
BMC Primary CareBackground Patients contacting out-of-hours primary care (OHS-PC) with shortness of breath (SOB) are often concerned. Sometimes, they also have an uncanny feeling; existential anxiety that something is wrong in their body.
Michelle Spek +9 more
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The uncanny valley effect and immune activation in virtual reality [PDF]
Scientific ReportsThe uncanny valley effect describes a phenomenon where humanoid, almost lifelike virtual agents evoke feelings of discomfort in the observers. The Pathogen Avoidance Hypothesis proposes that these feelings are based on a cognitive mechanism that ...
Esther K. Diekhof +4 more
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Is The Uncanny Valley An Uncanny Cliff? [PDF]
RO-MAN 2007 - The 16th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, 2007 The uncanny valley theory proposed by Mori in 1970 has been a hot topic in human robot interaction research, in particular since the development of increasingly human-like androids and computer graphics. In this paper we describe an empirical study that attempts to plot Mori's hypothesized curve.
Bartneck, C. +3 more
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Penny Dreadful’s Queer Orientalism: The Translations of Ferdinand Lyle
Humanities, 2020 Cultural expressions of Orientalism, the Gothic, and the queer are rarely studied together, though they share uncanny features including spectrality, doubling, and the return of the repressed.
Jamil Mustafa
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Umjetnost Riječi, 2023 This essay introduces the concept “xenoflesh” with reference to three recent celebrated novels that are concerned with the consumption of meat: Joseph D’Lacey’s Meat (2008), J. M. Coetzee’s Elizabeth Costello (2003), and Han Kang’s The Vegetarian (2007).
Simon Ryle
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“The act of reading is a bodily experience”: an Interview with Mia Gallagher [PDF]
Estudios Irlandeses, 2021 With Shift Mia Gallagher put together a collection of short stories which have been in the making for about thirty years. As many stories had been published separately in journals, they were given an overhaul to fit the new context: narrative ...
Hedwig Schwall
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Spectacles of shame: Ryan Murphy as curator of queer cultural memory [PDF]
Zbornik Radova Filozofskog Fakulteta u Prištini, 2017 In the anthology Queer Shame, edited by David M. Halperin and Valerie Traub, 'the personal and the social shame attached to eroticism' is taken to task in relation to the larger contemporary discourse surrounding gay pride (understood in terms of ...
Stepić Nikola N.
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Text Matters, 2022 The recent exhibition of Patricia Piccinini’s art called That’s Us (Toruń, CSW) largely represents the Australian artist’s visions and fascinations known from earlier exhibitions.
Edyta Lorek-Jezińska
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The Burial of Ambivalence in Edgar Allan Poe’s The Cask of Amontillado
Litera: Dil, Edebiyat ve Kültür Araştırmaları Dergisi, 2022 In Edgar Allan Poe’s short story The Cask of Amontillado, Fortunato’s captivity by Montresor in the middle of a carnival with no explanation amazes readers and leaves many unanswered questions in readers’ minds, thereby leading to reductionist ...
Merve Günday, Nurten Birlik
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