Evaluating the replicability of the uncanny valley effect [PDF]
Heliyon, 2018 The uncanny valley (UV) effect refers to an eerie feeling of unfamiliarity people get while observing or interacting with robots that resemble humans almost but not quite perfectly.
Jussi Palomäki +7 more
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A Bayesian explanation of the 'Uncanny Valley' effect and related psychological phenomena. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2012 There are a number of psychological phenomena in which dramatic emotional responses are evoked by seemingly innocuous perceptual stimuli. A well known example is the ‘uncanny valley’ effect whereby a near human-looking artifact can trigger feelings of ...
Moore RK.
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The uncanny valley effect and immune activation in virtual reality [PDF]
Scientific ReportsThe uncanny valley effect describes a phenomenon where humanoid, almost lifelike virtual agents evoke feelings of discomfort in the observers. The Pathogen Avoidance Hypothesis proposes that these feelings are based on a cognitive mechanism that ...
Esther K. Diekhof +4 more
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Neural correlates of the uncanny valley effect for robots and hyper-realistic masks. [PDF]
PLoS ONEViewing artificial objects and images that are designed to appear human can elicit a sense of unease, referred to as the 'uncanny valley' effect. Here we investigate neural correlates of the uncanny valley, using still images of androids (robots designed
Shona Fitzpatrick +6 more
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A stimulus exposure of 50 ms elicits the uncanny valley effect [PDF]
HeliyonThe uncanny valley (UV) effect captures the observation that artificial entities with near-human appearances tend to create feelings of eeriness. Researchers have proposed many hypotheses to explain the UV effect, but the visual processing mechanisms of ...
Jodie Yam, Tingchen Gong, Hong Xu
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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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Walking in the Uncanny Valley: Importance of the Attractiveness on the Acceptance of a Robot as a Working Partner [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2015 The Uncanny valley theory, which tells us that almost-human characteristics in a robot or a device could cause uneasiness in human observers, is an important research theme in the Human Robot Interaction (HRI) field.
Matthieu eDestephe +6 more
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The uncanny valley effect in typically developing children and its absence in children with autism spectrum disorders. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 Robots and virtual reality are gaining popularity in the intervention of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). To shed light on children's attitudes towards robots and characters in virtual reality, this study aims to examine whether children ...
Shuyuan Feng +6 more
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A review of level-1 visual perspective-taking: potential relationship with the uncanny valley effect [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyCalculating others' visual perspective automatically is a pivotal ability in human social communications. In the dot-perspective task, the ability is shown as a consistency effect: adults respond more slowly to judge the number of discs that they can see
Cong Fan, Cong Fan, Weiqi He, Weiqi He
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A Bayesian Model of the Uncanny Valley Effect for Explaining the Effects of Therapeutic Robots in Autism Spectrum Disorder. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 One of the core features of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is impaired reciprocal social interaction, especially in processing emotional information. Social robots are used to encourage children with ASD to take the initiative and to interact with the ...
Yuki Ueyama
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