Exploring the Design Space of Robot Appearance and Behavior in an Attention-Seeking Living Room Scenario for a Robot Companion [PDF]
, 2007 This material is presented to ensure timely dissemination of scholarly and technical work. Copyright and all rights therein are retained by authors or by other copyright holders.
Dautenhahn, K. +4 more
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Uncanny spaces for higher education: teaching and learning in virtual worlds [PDF]
, 2008 This paper brings together the theory of the uncanny as it emerges in cultural theory, with an understanding of the uncanniness and troublesomeness seen to be inherent in certain understandings of teaching and learning in higher education.
Bayne, Sian
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Eerie Prostheses and Kinky Strap-Ons: Mori’s uncanny valley and ableist ideology
Body, 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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Faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, able to rule by sense of smell! Superhuman Kingship in the Prophetic Books [PDF]
, 2016 An exploration of the Hebrew Bible's prophetic literature vis-à-vis Science Fiction and Science Fiction ...
Frauke Uhlenbruch, Ian Wilson
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Auditory traits of "own voice".
PLoS 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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A motion system for social and animated robots [PDF]
, 2014 This paper presents an innovative motion system that is used to control the motions and animations of a social robot. The social robot Probo is used to study Human-Robot Interactions (HRI), with a special focus on Robot Assisted Therapy (RAT).
goris, Kristof +4 more
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, 2022 Veränderungen wie der Klimawandel oder der Verlust von Artenvielfalt führen uns deutlich vor Augen, dass wir unsere Handlungsroutinen grundlegend verändern müssen. Die Herausforderung dieser Transformationsprozesse liegt für den Einzelnen wie auch für Gemeinschaften und etablierte Organisationsstrukturen in der Überwindung von Komfort-Zonen im ...
Schwabe, Stefan +6 more
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Uncanny Valley Project, una intervención ciberfeminista en la X Bienal Centroamericana
Liminar: 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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Companion robots: the hallucinatory danger of human-robot interactions [PDF]
, 2018 The advent of the so-called Companion Robots is raising many ethical concerns among scholars and in the public opinion. Focusing mainly on robots caring for the elderly, in this paper we analyze these concerns to distinguish which are directly ascribable
Coeckelbergh M., Dreyfus H., Shibata T.
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Deviation from typical organic voices best explains a vocal uncanny valley
Computers in Human Behavior ReportsThe 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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