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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
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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
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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
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Understanding the Uncanny: Both Atypical Features and Category Ambiguity Provoke Aversion toward Humanlike Robots

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2017
Robots intended for social contexts are often designed with explicit humanlike attributes in order to facilitate their reception by (and communication with) people.
Megan K. Strait   +7 more
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Eerie Prostheses and Kinky Strap-Ons: Mori’s uncanny valley and ableist ideology

open access: yesBody, Space & Technology Journal, 2014
In his paper ‘The Uncanny Valley’ (1970), Masahiro Mori advises designers to avoid high degrees of human likeness in prosthetic body parts in order not to evoke uncanniness.
Daniël Ploeger
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Auditory traits of "own voice".

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2018
People perceive their recorded voice differently from their actively spoken voice. The uncanny valley theory proposes that as an object approaches humanlike characteristics, there is an increase in the sense of familiarity; however, eventually a point is
Marino Kimura, Yuko Yotsumoto
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Uncanny Valley Project, una intervención ciberfeminista en la X Bienal Centroamericana

open access: yesLiminar: Estudios Sociales y Humanísticos, 2017
Se reflexiona sobre la intervención ciberfeminista Uncanny Valley Project en la X Sonora de la Bienal Centroamericana (2016). Se analiza desde una "proximidad crítica, corporal y feminista", bajo la hipótesis del uncanny valley de Masahiro Mori, para ...
Susan Campos Fonseca
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Deviation from typical organic voices best explains a vocal uncanny valley

open access: yesComputers in Human Behavior Reports
The uncanny valley describes the negative evaluation of near humanlike artificial entities. Previous research with synthetic and real voices failed to find an uncanny valley of voices. This may have been due to an incomplete selection of stimuli.
Alexander Diel, Michael Lewis
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Familiar and Strange: Gender, Sex, and Love in the Uncanny Valley

open access: yesMultimodal Technologies and Interaction, 2017
Early robotics research held that increased realism should result in increased positivity of the interactions between people and humanoid robots. However, this turned out to be true only to a certain point, and researchers now recognize that human ...
Cheyenne Laue
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Do individuals with autism spectrum disorder not experience the uncanny valley? A psychological experiment and feature analysis using human and robot faces

open access: yesComputers in Human Behavior Reports
Recently, there have been growing expectations and attempts to use robots in the therapeutic treatment of individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD).
Lu Li   +4 more
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