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Systems overview of Ono: a DIY reproducible open source social robot [PDF]
, 2013 One of the major obstacles in the study of HRI (human-robot interaction) with social robots is the lack of multiple identical robots that allow testing with large user groups. Often, the price of these robots prohibits using more than a handful. A lot of
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Philosophy & TechnologyAbstract Masahito Mori hypothesised that robots that look somewhat but not quite enough like humans are likely to arouse a sense of unease and discomfort. This hugely influential design hypothesis about robot appearance has been dubbed the ‘Uncanny Valley.’ I argue that there is a more general formulation of this principle that can be ...
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Creepy cats and strange high houses: Support for configural processing in testing predictions of nine uncanny valley theories. [PDF]
J Vis, 2021 Diel A, MacDorman KF.
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On the Matter of Robot Minds [PDF]
The view that phenomenally conscious robots are on the horizon often rests on a certain philosophical view about consciousness, one we call “nomological behaviorism.” The view entails that, as a matter of nomological necessity, if a robot had exactly ...
McLaughlin, Brian P., Rose, David
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What Rises Above the White Noise: the Possibility of Hearing Truth in a Post-truth World [PDF]
, 2017 This installation in a valley in the UK’s Lake District National Park taps into the idea of communication, the problem of apparent fact and post-truth, and which voices are being heard when it comes to standing up for the environment.
Fraser, Harriet, Fraser, Rob
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EXTENDED ESSAY ON EDGAR ALLAN POE’S “DREAM-LAND” BY ANALYZING DICTIONS USING CHATMAN’S “SENSE OF WORDS” APPROACH [PDF]
, 2017 This extended essay is about Edgar Allan Poe\u27s “Dream-Land”. The study was led by the writer\u27s fondness of Poe\u27s haunting beauty in this poem of dream. The purpose of this essay is to describe the beauty of the poem through the meanings of words,
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, 2015 The Uncanny Valley Effect (UVE) first emerged as a warning against making industrial robots appear so highly human-like that they could unsettle the real humans around them. It proposed a specific pattern of negative emotional responses to entities that were almost but not quite human, and has been proposed as the reason why some entities such as dolls,
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Should we be thinking about sex robots? [PDF]
, 2017 The chapter introduces the edited collection Robot Sex: Social and Ethical Implications. It proposes a definition of the term 'sex robot' and examines some current prototype models. It also considers the three main ethical questions one can ask about sex
Danaher, John
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Interact: A Mixed Reality Virtual Survivor for Holocaust Testimonies [PDF]
In this paper we present Interact---a mixed reality virtual survivor for Holocaust education. It was created to preserve the powerful and engaging experience of listening to, and interacting with, Holocaust survivors, allowing future generations of ...
Coward, Sarah, Ma, Minhua, Walker, Chris
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, 2008 The island Syncretia, situated in the metaverse of Second Life is the future home of ground, a metaverse learning environment, dedicated to the enablement of creativity and inspired primarily by ''The Groundcourse'' [1]; Roy Ascott's art educational methodology developed and practiced during the 1960's.
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