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ABSTRACT At its core, transhumanism is utopic and apocalyptic: it tells us we will be saved through an imminent radical change of our being wrought by radical human enhancement (RHE) technologies. We are rushing, its supporters claim, towards a technological utopia so long as assorted techno‐phobes do not stand in the way.
Benjamin N. Parks
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Speech Synthesis and Uncanny Valley [PDF]
The paper discusses a hypothesis relating high quality text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis in spoken dialogue systems with the concept of “uncanny valley”. It introduces a “Wizard-of-Oz” experiment with 30 volunteers engaged in conversations with two synthetic voices of different naturalness.
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Abstract Adopting physical expressions of emotion has feedback effects on individuals' mood and behaviour; for example, adopting the expansive and contractive body language of dominance and submission can affect individuals' feelings of power. However, postural feedback paradigms almost exclusively use deliberate, active posture manipulations, which ...
Soren Wainio‐Theberge, Jorge Armony
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Attitude Towards Humanoid Robots and the Uncanny Valley Hypothesis
The main aim of the presented study was to check whether the well-established measures concerning the attitude towards humanoid robots are good predictors for the uncanny valley effect.
Łupkowski Paweł, Gierszewska Marta
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Nesta entrevista, realizada em fevereiro de 2019, nas proximidades dos Ufer Studios em Berlim, Stefan Kaegi afirma seu posicionamento crítico e teórico sobre teatro e comenta, especialmente, duas peças que estrearam recentemente: “Uncanny Valley” (2018 ...
Giorgio Zimann Gislon
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ABSTRACT Objectives Counter‐empathy involves responding to others' assumed emotions incongruently. Research on dispositional counter‐empathy predominantly focuses on specific counter‐empathic constructs without clearly mapping its cardinal dimensions.
Jake R. Siamro, Christian H. Jordan
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Individual Differences in the Effects of Life Events on Personality Trait Change
ABSTRACT Objective To date, effects of life events on personality trait change have been unsystematic, tenuous, and difficult to replicate. We focus on individual differences in change processes following life events, which have been neglected in previous studies.
Lara Oeltjen, Christian Kandler
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Il perturbante artificiale: Livelli di complessità e interfacce possibili fra umano e IA [PDF]
Aim of this paper is to analyse interface’s different levels between humans and artificialintelligence, assuming human being as a cognitive system organized on many levels ofcomplexity.
Aldo Pisano
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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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From Odors to Colors: Sensory Perception in Neurodiverse Mexican Youth
Abstract Previous work has shown that humans make consistent associations between odor and color. However, neurodiverse individuals, especially those with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), perceive and interpret sensory information differently from their neurotypical peers.
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