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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 Care
Background 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, Dorien L. Zwart, Esther de Groot, Michelle R. Timmerman, Maarten van Smeden, Daphne C. A. Erkelens, Anna S. M. Dobbe, Mathé Delissen, Frans H. Rutten, Roderick P. Venekamp   +9 more
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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, Martim eBrandao, Tatsuhiro eKishi, Massimiliano eZecca, Kenji eHashimoto, Atsuo eTakanishi, Atsuo eTakanishi   +6 more
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A review of empirical evidence on different uncanny valley hypotheses: support for perceptual mismatch as one road to the valley of eeriness

Frontiers in Psychology, 2015
The uncanny valley hypothesis, proposed already in the 1970s, suggests that almost but not fully humanlike artificial characters will trigger a profound sense of unease.
Tapio Takala, Jari Kätsyri, Klaus Förger   +2 more
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The uncanny valley effect and immune activation in virtual reality [PDF]

Scientific Reports
The 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, Svenja Kastner, Donna Deinert, Monika Foerster, Frank Steinicke   +4 more
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Uncanny Meat

Caliban: French Journal of English Studies, 2016
Cet essai tente de mettre en œuvre un concept auquel je donne le nom de "viande étrange" afin de développer un cadre positif et franchement matérialiste pour la (re)lecture de certaines relations inter-espèces. Afin de développer ce concept, cet essai se
James R. Goebel
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Uncanny [PDF]

Postdigital Science and Education, 2020
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Jandrić, Petar, Kuzmanić, Ana
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Poetics of the Uncanny: A Post-Phenomenological Critique of D. H. Lawrence and Somerset Maugham’s Short Fiction

NUML Journal of Critical Inquiry, 2021
Taking issue with Sigmund Freud’s premise on the subject, this essay seeks alternately to inquire into, challenge, and broaden our understanding of the uncanny.
Umar Shehzad
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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., Kanda, T., Ishiguro, H., Hagita, N.   +3 more
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At the Edge of Presence and Absence in an Uncanny Valley: On Rimini Protokoll’s Unheimliches Tal / Uncanny Valley

Studien zur Deutschen Sprache und Literatur, 2023
Conventional Western theatre is based on the Aristotelian notion of presence. Contemporary theatre, however, proposes an aesthetic of absence. Its orientation differs from the notion of presence found in text-centred Western theatre. This aesthetic model,
Melike Saba Akım
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An Overview of Deep Learning Based Methods for Unsupervised and Semi-Supervised Anomaly Detection in Videos

Journal of Imaging, 2018
Videos represent the primary source of information for surveillance applications. Video material is often available in large quantities but in most cases it contains little or no annotation for supervised learning.
B. Ravi Kiran, Dilip Mathew Thomas, Ranjith Parakkal   +2 more
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