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A Mismatch in the Human Realism of Face and Voice Produces an Uncanny Valley

i-Perception, 2011
The uncanny valley has become synonymous with the uneasy feeling of viewing an animated character or robot that looks imperfectly human. Although previous uncanny valley experiments have focused on relations among a character's visual elements, the ...
Wade J Mitchell, Kevin A Szerszen, Amy Shirong Lu, Paul W Schermerhorn, Matthias Scheutz, Karl F MacDorman   +5 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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Deviation from typical organic voices best explains a vocal uncanny valley

Computers 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

Multimodal 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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Investigating the uncanny valley for prosthetic hands [PDF]

Prosthetics & Orthotics International, 2018
In 1970, Mori hypothesised the existence of an 'uncanny valley', whereby stimuli falling short of being fully human are found to be creepy or eerie.To investigate how eerie people find different prosthetic hands and whether perceptions of eeriness can be accounted for by categorical ambiguity.Students participated in computerised experiments during ...
Poliakoff, Ellen, O’Kane, Sophie, Carefoot, Olivia, Kyberd, J, Gowen, Emma   +4 more
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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

Computers 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, Taku Imaizumi, Natsuki Nishikawa, Hirokazu Kumazaki, Kazuhiro Ueda   +4 more
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‘Too Close to Eat?’ Exploring Consumer Responses to Edible Packaging Through the Lens of Food Neophobia and Construal Level Theory

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The rapid growth of packaging waste has recently intensified the search for sustainable alternatives. Edible packaging, developed from biodegradable materials safe for consumption, represents a promising innovation that combines environmental responsibility with food preservation.
Donata Tania Vergura, Cristina Zerbini, Settimio Ziccarelli   +2 more
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Artificial Intelligence & Popular Music: SKYGGE, Flow Machines, and the Audio Uncanny Valley

Arts, 2019
This article presents an overview of the first AI-human collaborated album, Hello World, by SKYGGE, which utilizes Sony’s Flow Machines technologies.
Melissa Avdeeff
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From Confusion to Clarity: A Multi‐Stage Process Framework for Understanding Consumer Confusion

Journal of Consumer Behaviour, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper reconceptualizes consumer confusion as a multi‐stage temporal process rather than a static outcome, addressing theoretical fragmentation in existing antecedent‐consequence models. By integrating cognitive appraisal, contextual amplification, and adaptive coping within a unified framework, we explain how confusion unfolds rather than
Fatih Celik, Erdogan Koc
wiley   +1 more source

Exploring humanlikeness and the uncanny valley with furhat

Proceedings of the 22nd ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, 2022
In this paper we explore gender, perceived humanlikeness, animacy, intelligence and likeability of a female and male Furhat robot, and test for uncanny valley effects. We found no gender differences for neither user nor Furhats in perceived humanlikness or likeability, but female users rated the Furhats higher on animacy and intelligence.
Ågren, Isabella, Silvervarg, Annika
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