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The Physical, Emotional, and Autonomous Anthropomorphism of Service Chatbots

Psychology &Marketing, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Prior research on chatbot anthropomorphism has often treated it as a unidimensional construct, producing inconsistent findings regarding how human‐like design cues shape user responses. This study conceptualizes anthropomorphism as a multidimensional higher‐order perception comprising three distinct forms of anthropomorphic attribution ...
Yangjuan Hu, Fulya Acikgoz, Shubin Yu
wiley   +1 more source

From robot to android to humanoid: Does self-referencing influence uncanny valley perceptions of mechanic or anthropomorphic face morphs?

Computers in Human Behavior: Artificial Humans
To examine how the self-referencing effect influences uncanny valley perceptions, this study (N = 188) employed an 11-level mechanic-to-human face morph continuum (ranging from 0% to 100% human-likeness in 10% increments) by 2 (self-face vs.
William D. Weisman, Jorge Peña
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From talking tools to metahumans: social interaction, semiotic skill, and the authority of AI chatbots Des outils parlants aux métahumains : interactions sociales, compétences sémiotiques et autorité des robots conversationnels

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
What does it take to turn a tool into a talking tool and that into an ultimate authority? Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) in its diverse forms, such as large language models (LLMs), is celebrated as a useful tool. But LLM‐based conversational agents, or chatbots, the software applications through which ordinary users are likely to engage ...
Webb Keane
wiley   +1 more source

How anthropomorphic AI features affect music students’ acceptance: a study among Chinese undergraduates

Frontiers in Education
This study investigates how Chinese undergraduate music students’ perceptions of AI-generated content (AIGC) are affected by generative artificial intelligence (GAI).
Jingyuan Tan, Clinton Chidibere Anyanwu, Yaoping Liu, Sri Suryanti, Sri Suryanti   +4 more
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The Big Picture: Religion and Global Comparative History

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
This article considers what a ‘big picture’ approach to global religious history might look like, and in particular the implications of deploying the comparative method across much larger stretches of time and space than historians normally attend to. It will begin by reflecting on the epistemological moods that have hindered this project to date, the ...
Alan Strathern
wiley   +1 more source

Transhumanism Without Transindividuation in the Age Without Epochality: Stiegler, Vice, and Radical Human Enhancement

Bioethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT At its core, transhumanism is utopic and apocalyptic: it tells us we will be saved through an imminent radical change of our being wrought by radical human enhancement (RHE) technologies. We are rushing, its supporters claim, towards a technological utopia so long as assorted techno‐phobes do not stand in the way.
Benjamin N. Parks
wiley   +1 more source

Manipulating posture implicitly through environmental constraints influences mood and risk‐taking behaviour

British Journal of Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Adopting physical expressions of emotion has feedback effects on individuals' mood and behaviour; for example, adopting the expansive and contractive body language of dominance and submission can affect individuals' feelings of power. However, postural feedback paradigms almost exclusively use deliberate, active posture manipulations, which ...
Soren Wainio‐Theberge, Jorge Armony
wiley   +1 more source

Uncanny Valley Effect is Amplified with Multimodal Stimuli and Varies Across Ages

, 2021
“Uncanny Valley Hypothesis” suggests that humanoid objects that materialize human beings virtually but not entirely realistically may elicit uncanny feelings of eeriness and revulsion in observers. While the uncanny valley (UV) has been largely investigated with a focus on the visual aspects of the robot-like designs with young adults, the auditory ...
Emre Yorgancıgil, Burcu A. Urgen, Funda Yildirim   +2 more
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FaceMamba: Geometry‐Aware Mamba for Efficient Speech‐Driven 3D Facial Animation

Computer Graphics Forum, EarlyView.
Abstract Speech‐driven 3D facial animation plays a pivotal role in immersive digital human applications. Recent works have explored Mamba‐based sequence modeling as an efficient alternative to Transformer, but they often suffer from limited cross‐modal alignment and insufficient control over fine‐grained facial deformations.
Yifan Ge, Zhiqiang Ren, Yazhan Zhang, Haofei Wang, Yawen Zhang, Shengli Zhang   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

It Do the Poets in Different Voices

Iperstoria
This paper examines the advent of poetry performed by generative-AI voices. It proposes that these synthetic voices can cast a new light on literary historical understandings of the original performances through their minute differences. In places where
Chris Mustazza
doaj   +1 more source