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Frontiers in Psychology, 2015 Stimuli that resemble humans, but are not perfectly human-like, are disliked compared to distinctly human and nonhuman stimuli. Accounts of this Uncanny Valley effect often focus on how changes in human resemblance can evoke different emotional responses.
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Macaque Gaze Responses to the Primatar: A Virtual Macaque Head for Social Cognition Research
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 Following the expanding use and applications of virtual reality in everyday life, realistic virtual stimuli are of increasing interest in cognitive studies.
Vanessa A. D. Wilson +15 more
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Frontiers in Virtual Reality, 2021 Care for chronic disease requires patient adherence to treatment advice. Nonadherence worsens health outcomes and increases healthcare costs. When healthcare professionals are in short supply, a virtual physician could serve as a persuasive technology to
Zhengyan Dai, Karl F. MacDorman
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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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Asynchrony enhances uncanniness in human, android, and virtual dynamic facial expressions
BMC Research Notes, 2023 Objective Uncanniness plays a vital role in interactions with humans and artificial agents. Previous studies have shown that uncanniness is caused by a higher sensitivity to deviation or atypicality in specialized categories, such as faces or facial ...
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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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Attitude Towards Humanoid Robots and the Uncanny Valley Hypothesis
Foundations of Computing and Decision Sciences, 2019 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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Evaluating the Uncanny Valley Effect in Dark Colored Skin Virtual Humans
2023 36th SIBGRAPI Conference on Graphics, Patterns and Images (SIBGRAPI), 2023 With the rapid advancement of technology, the design of virtual humans has led to a very realistic user experience, such as in movies, video games, and simulations. As a result, virtual humans are becoming increasingly similar to real humans. However, following the Uncanny Valley (UV) theory, users tend to feel discomfort when watching entities with ...
Victor Flávio de Andrade Araujo +2 more
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Computers in Human Behavior ReportsRecently, there have been growing expectations and attempts to use robots in the therapeutic treatment of individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD).
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Categorization-based stranger avoidance does not explain the uncanny valley effect [PDF]
Cognition, 2017 The uncanny valley hypothesis predicts that an entity appearing almost human risks eliciting cold, eerie feelings in viewers. Categorization-based stranger avoidance theory identifies the cause of this feeling as categorizing the entity into a novel category.
MacDorman, Karl F. +1 more
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