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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   +1 more source

Individual Differences in the Effects of Life Events on Personality Trait Change

open access: yesJournal of Personality, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective To date, effects of life events on personality trait change have been unsystematic, tenuous, and difficult to replicate. We focus on individual differences in change processes following life events, which have been neglected in previous studies.
Lara Oeltjen, Christian Kandler
wiley   +1 more source

Perceptual discrimination difficulty and familiarity in the Uncanny Valley: More like a ‘Happy Valley’.

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2014
The Uncanny Valley Hypothesis (UVH) predicts that enhanced difficulty perceptually discriminating between categorically ambiguous human and humanlike characters (e.g., highly realistic robot) evokes negatively valenced (i.e., uncanny) experience.
Marcus eCheetham   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Statistical Learning of Facial Expressions Improves Realism of Animated Avatar Faces

open access: yesFrontiers in Virtual Reality, 2021
A high realism of avatars is beneficial for virtual reality experiences such as avatar-mediated communication and embodiment. Previous work, however, suggested that the usage of realistic virtual faces can lead to unexpected and undesired effects ...
C. Martin Grewe   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

From Odors to Colors: Sensory Perception in Neurodiverse Mexican Youth

open access: yesTopics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Previous work has shown that humans make consistent associations between odor and color. However, neurodiverse individuals, especially those with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), perceive and interpret sensory information differently from their neurotypical peers.
Patricia Zavaleta‐Ramírez   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

ANIMALS IN ANIMATION: DEEPENED ANALYSIS ON ANTHROPOMORPHIZATION AND THE UNCANNY VALLEY : A continuation and improvement upon previous study of realistic 3D animal anthropomorphization triggering the uncanny valley effect

open access: yes, 2023
This study investigates the relationship between the uncanny valley effect and perceived facial expressions in anthropomorphized virtual animals. This thesis builds upon previous research by the author in the hopes of addressing previously identified ...
Frick, Gustav
core   +1 more source

Humanoid interfaces in artificial intelligence-based language learning devices: Possible ‘Uncanny Valley’ effects?

open access: yesActa Psychologica
The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into educational tools is transforming learning environments by enabling personalized experiences. This study explores the effectiveness of AI-based educational interfaces, comparing humanoid avatar tutors ...
Costanza Scaffidi Abbate   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Do Early Career Researchers Consider AI as an Opportunity or a Threat? A Pathfinding Study

open access: yesLearned Publishing, Volume 39, Issue 3, July 2026.
ABSTRACT The article presents the latest (2025) iteration of the Harbingers longitudinal project on early career researchers (ECRs), artificial intelligence (AI) and scholarly communications. In conversation with a purposive and diverse sample of more than 60 ECRs in six countries and numerous subjects, we present an evaluation of a pressing issue ...
David Nicholas   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Uncanny Valley Effect

open access: yes, 2015
The Uncanny Valley Effect (UVE) first emerged as a warning against making industrial robots appear so highly human-like that they could unsettle the real humans around them. It proposed a specific pattern of negative emotional responses to entities that were almost but not quite human, and has been proposed as the reason why some entities such as dolls,
openaire   +2 more sources

The effect of onset asynchrony in audio-visual speech and the Uncanny Valley in virtual characters [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Journal of Mechanisms and Robotic Systems, 2015
This study investigates if the Uncanny Valley phenomenon is increased for realistic, human-like characters with an asynchrony of lip movement during speech. An experiment was conducted in which 113 participants rated, a human and a realistic, talking-head, human-like, virtual character over a range of onset asynchronies for both perceived familiarity ...
Tinwell, Angela   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources

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