Chikamatsu, Mori, and the uncanny valley [PDF]
i-PerceptionIn 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
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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 [PDF]
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 +2 more
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Evaluating the replicability of the uncanny valley effect [PDF]
Heliyon, 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
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Monkey visual attention does not fall into the uncanny valley [PDF]
Scientific 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
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The uncanny valley effect in typically developing children and its absence in children with autism spectrum disorders. [PDF]
PLoS 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
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A review of level-1 visual perspective-taking: potential relationship with the uncanny valley effect [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyCalculating others' visual perspective automatically is a pivotal ability in human social communications. In the dot-perspective task, the ability is shown as a consistency effect: adults respond more slowly to judge the number of discs that they can see
Cong Fan, Cong Fan, Weiqi He, Weiqi He
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Editorial: The Uncanny Valley Hypothesis and beyond [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2017 Marcus Cheetham +2 more
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Pupillary Responses to Robotic and Human Emotions: The Uncanny Valley and Media Equation Confirmed [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 Physiological responses during human–robots interaction are useful alternatives to subjective measures of uncanny feelings for nearly humanlike robots (uncanny valley) and comparable emotional responses between humans and robots (media equation). However,
Anne Reuten +2 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 +6 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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