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The uncanny valley effect in embodied conversational agents: a critical systematic review of attractiveness, anthropomorphism, and uncanniness [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyIntroductionThe Uncanny Valley Effect (UVE) describes the discomfort users feel when interacting with Embodied Conversational Agents (ECAs) that display human-like features, often resulting in anxiety, disgust, and avoidance.
Ștefania Cihodaru-Ștefanache +5 more
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Circling Around the Uncanny Valley: Design Principles for Research Into the Relation Between Human Likeness and Eeriness [PDF]
i-Perception, 2016 The uncanny valley effect (UVE) is a negative emotional response experienced when encountering entities that appear almost human. Research on the UVE typically investigates individual, or collections of, near human entities but may be prone to ...
Stephanie Lay +3 more
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Persistence of the Uncanny Valley: the Influence of Repeated Interactions and a Robot's Attitude on Its Perception [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2015 The uncanny valley theory proposed by Mori has been heavily investigated in the recent years by researchers from various fields. However, the videos and images used in these studies did not permit any human interaction with the uncanny objects. Therefore,
Jakub Aleksander Zlotowski +7 more
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The human likeness dimension of the "uncanny valley hypothesis": behavioural and functional MRI findings. [PDF]
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2011 The uncanny valley hypothesis (Mori, 1970) predicts differential experience of negative and positive affect as a function of human likeness. Affective experience of realistic humanlike robots and computer-generated characters (avatars) dominates uncanny ...
Marcus eCheetham +2 more
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Uncanny Autofiction on Stage. About Rimini Protokoll's Uncanny Valley
BetweenThis paper investigates Rimini Protokoll’s interpretation of the Gothic genre in the 2018 play, Uncanny Valley. In this work, the German-speaking theater collective refers to Mashairo Mori’s research on the human reception of humanoid robots to reflect ...
Dora Rusciano
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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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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. +3 more
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Uncanny valley for interactive social agents: An experimental study
Virtual 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
Frontiers 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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Frontiers 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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