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The Dead Walk

, 2016
Monsters have always enjoyed a significant presence in the human imagination, and religion was instrumental in replacing the physical horror they engendered with that of a moral threat.
Mendoza, Marlene, Phillips, Bill
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On the Matter of Robot Minds [PDF]

The view that phenomenally conscious robots are on the horizon often rests on a certain philosophical view about consciousness, one we call “nomological behaviorism.” The view entails that, as a matter of nomological necessity, if a robot had exactly ...
McLaughlin, Brian P., Rose, David
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Avatars vs. Actors: Comparison Shows Little Difference in Role-Play Simulations for Psychology Students Authors

International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Role-playing using avatars has been demonstrated as effective, but it has not been compared to role-playing with a live actor. In this study, undergraduate psychology students (N=93) conducted a clinical interview in a role-play with an avatar or live ...
Melinda Russell-Stamp, Jean R. Norman , Kennedy Parker   +2 more
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Virtual faces evoke only a weak uncanny valley effect: An empirical investigation with controlled virtual face images

Perception, 2018
The uncanny valley (UV) hypothesis suggests that increasingly human-like robots or virtual characters elicit more familiarity in their observers (positive affinity) with the exception of near-human characters that elicit strong feelings of eeriness (negative affinity).
de Gelder, Beatrice, Takala, Tapio, Kätsyri, Jari   +3 more
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Uncanny Valley Effect in the Animation Character Design - focusing on Avoiding or Utilizing the Uncanny Valley Effect [PDF]

Cartoon and Animation Studies, 2016
LI Ding, Hyoun-Sun Moon
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Blurring Two Conceptions of Subjective Experience: Folk versus Philosophical Phenomenality [PDF]

, 2014
Philosophers and psychologists have experimentally explored various aspects of people\u27s understandings of subjective experience based on their responses to questions about whether robots “see red” or “feel frustrated,” but the intelligibility of such ...
Peressini, Anthony F
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The Santa Clara, 2019-05-09 [PDF]

, 2019
https://scholarcommons.scu.edu/tsc/1094/thumbnail ...
Santa Clara University
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More Realistic, More Better? How Anthropomorphic Images of Virtual Influencers Impact the Purchase Intentions of Consumers

Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research
A growing number of enterprises are using virtual influencers on livestreaming e-commerce platforms to extend the duration for which live streamers stay online.
Siyu Pan, Zhouyao Qin, Yiwei Zhang
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Republican Monsters: The Cultural Construction of American Positivist Criminology, 1767-1920 [PDF]

, 2019
This dissertation examines the history of and cultural influences on positivist criminology in the United States. From Benjamin Rush to the present day, the U.S.
Burton, Chase Smith
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AESTHETIC APPEAL OF ROBOTIC LIMB INTERACTIONS AND EFFECTS ON DESIGN AND FUNCTION

Journal of Industrial Design and Engineering Graphics
Prosthetic devices play an important role in rehabilitation of people with limb reduction. Although their functionality is getting closer to their human counterpart, there are some aspects regarding visual appeal that need more development.
Florin-Felix RADUICA, Ionel SIMION, Ana Maria Mihaela RUGESCU, Ioana-Catalina ENACHE, Elena IONITA   +4 more
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