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Measuring the Uncanny Valley Effect [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Journal of Social Robotics, 2016
Using a hypothetical graph, Masahiro Mori proposed in 1970 the relation between the human likeness of robots and other anthropomorphic characters and an observer’s affective or emotional appraisal of them. The relation is positive apart from a U-shaped region known as the uncanny valley.
Chin-Chang Ho, Karl F. MacDorman
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Meta-Analysis of the Uncanny Valley

open access: yes, 2023
This preregistration is for a meta-analysis of the uncanny valley. Our work explores the 1) impact of uncanny valley perceptions on affect, behavior, cognition, and opinion; 2) effect sizes of the theorized causes of the uncanny valley; and 3) mediation
William Weisman, Jorge Peña
core   +1 more source

The Social Uncanny Valley

open access: yes, 2023
The Uncanny Valley effect refers to the observation that robots who are highly human-like elicit negative responses from observers. Based on this observation, we examine human responses to AI-generated objects which are very similar to those made by ...
Wu, Di
core   +2 more sources

Walking in the Uncanny Valley: Importance of the Attractiveness on the Acceptance of a Robot as a Working Partner

open access: yesFrontiers 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
doaj   +1 more source

Understanding the Uncanny: Both Atypical Features and Category Ambiguity Provoke Aversion toward Humanlike Robots

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2017
Robots intended for social contexts are often designed with explicit humanlike attributes in order to facilitate their reception by (and communication with) people.
Megan K. Strait   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Stimulus-category competition, inhibition and affective devaluation: A novel account of the Uncanny Valley

open access: yesFrontiers 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.
Anne E. Ferrey   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Macaque Gaze Responses to the Primatar: A Virtual Macaque Head for Social Cognition Research

open access: yesFrontiers 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
doaj   +1 more source

Creepy, but Persuasive: In a Virtual Consultation, Physician Bedside Manner, Rather than the Uncanny Valley, Predicts Adherence

open access: yesFrontiers 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
doaj   +1 more source

Auditory traits of "own voice".

open access: yesPLoS 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
doaj   +1 more source

uncanny valley

open access: yes, 2018
The data of "The uncanny valley effect in typically developing children and its absence in children with autism spectrum ...
Betty
core   +2 more sources

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