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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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.
Anne E. Ferrey +2 more
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Faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, able to rule by sense of smell! Superhuman Kingship in the Prophetic Books [PDF]
, 2016 An exploration of the Hebrew Bible's prophetic literature vis-à-vis Science Fiction and Science Fiction ...
Frauke Uhlenbruch, Ian Wilson
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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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EEG theta and Mu oscillations during perception of human and robot actions. [PDF]
, 2013 The perception of others' actions supports important skills such as communication, intention understanding, and empathy. Are mechanisms of action processing in the human brain specifically tuned to process biological agents?
Ishiguro, Hiroshi +4 more
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Companion robots: the hallucinatory danger of human-robot interactions [PDF]
, 2018 The advent of the so-called Companion Robots is raising many ethical concerns among scholars and in the public opinion. Focusing mainly on robots caring for the elderly, in this paper we analyze these concerns to distinguish which are directly ascribable
Coeckelbergh M., Dreyfus H., Shibata T.
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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 ...
Alexander Diel +3 more
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Virtual environments and autism: a developmental psychopathological approach [PDF]
, 2013 Individuals with autism spectrum disorders supposedly have an affinity with ICT, making it an ideally suited media for this population. Virtual environments (VEs) – both two dimensional and immersive – represent a particular kind of ICT that might be of ...
Rajendran, G
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In good company? : Perception of movement synchrony of a non-anthropomorphic robot [PDF]
, 2015 Copyright: © 2015 Lehmann et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source
Dautenhahn, K. +4 more
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Virtual Human: A Comprehensive Survey on Academic and Applications
IEEE Access, 2023 As a creative method for virtual human individuals based on multiple fusion technologies such as artificial intelligence, computer graphics, and speech synthesis, virtual human technology has developed rapidly since its birth, and continuous discussions ...
Lipeng Cui, Jiarui Liu
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