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Is the Uncanny Valley an Uncanny Cliff? [PDF]

open access: yesRO-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.
Norihiro Hagita   +2 more
exaly   +2 more sources

A Review of Empirical Evidence on Different Uncanny Valley Hypotheses: Support for Perceptual Mismatch as One Road to the Valley of Eeriness

open access: yesFrontiers 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.
Jari Kätsyri   +2 more
exaly   +3 more sources

Chikamatsu, Mori, and the uncanny valley

open access: yesi-Perception
In Japan, robotics projects like Geminoid, modeled after Hiroshi Ishiguro, exhibit a fascination with creating human doubles. Yet, warnings against this also thread through Japanese thought, from the Edo-period playwright Chikamatsu Monzaemon (1653–1724)
Karl F. MacDorman
doaj   +3 more sources

Evaluating the replicability of the uncanny valley effect [PDF]

open access: yesHeliyon, 2018
The uncanny valley (UV) effect refers to an eerie feeling of unfamiliarity people get while observing or interacting with robots that resemble humans almost but not quite perfectly.
Jussi Palomäki   +7 more
doaj   +4 more sources

The uncanny valley effect in typically developing children and its absence in children with autism spectrum disorders. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2018
Robots and virtual reality are gaining popularity in the intervention of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). To shed light on children's attitudes towards robots and characters in virtual reality, this study aims to examine whether children ...
Shuyuan Feng   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

At the Edge of Presence and Absence in an Uncanny Valley: On Rimini Protokoll’s Unheimliches Tal / Uncanny Valley

open access: yesStudien 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
doaj   +1 more source

Monkey visual attention does not fall into the uncanny valley

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2022
Very humanlike artificial agents can induce feelings of uneasiness in human perceivers. Stimuli that generate this response are said to occupy “the uncanny valley”. Given inconsistent findings in the literature, whether or not nonhuman animals experience
Sarah B. Carp   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Uncanny valley for interactive social agents: An experimental study

open access: yesVirtual Reality & Intelligent Hardware, 2022
The uncanny valley hypothesis states that users might experience eerie when interacting with almost but not fully human-like artificial characters. The advancements in artificial intelligence, robotics, and computer graphics have led to life-like virtual
Nidhi Mishra   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

The inversion effect on the cubic humanness-uncanniness relation in humanlike agents

open access: yesFrontiers 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
doaj   +1 more source

Editorial: The Uncanny Valley Hypothesis and beyond [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2017
Marcus Cheetham   +2 more
doaj   +5 more sources

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