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

International 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, Grimshaw, Mark, Abdel Nabi, Deborah   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Remaking place relations for social‐ecological restoration: Reflections on placemaking in South Africa

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Ecological restoration is an ongoing relational process involving interconnected reciprocal social and biophysical interactions that shift and change over time and space. Conceptual literature proposes that placemaking can deepen and enhance the understanding and implementation of social‐ecological restoration processes as part of broader ...
Ancois de Villiers, Karen J. Esler, Jessica Cockburn, Marja Spierenburg   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

A non-humanoid robot in the "uncanny valley": experimental analysis of the reaction to behavioral contingency in 2-3 year old children. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2009
Infants' sensitivity to social or behavioral contingency has been examined in the field of developmental psychology and behavioral sciences, mainly using a double video paradigm or a still face paradigm.
Kentaro Yamamoto, Saori Tanaka, Hiromi Kobayashi, Hideki Kozima, Kazuhide Hashiya   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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

Clinical features of mental imagery in substance use disorders: A mixed‐methods analysis

Addiction, EarlyView.
Abstract Aims To characterise the frequency, features and content of craving‐related mental imagery among people seeking treatment for substance use disorders (SUDs); examine within‐session change in self‐reported craving following imagery elicitation; and explore perceived links with autobiographical memory, behavioural, cognitive and emotional ...
Gemma Scott, Tim Meynen, Francesca Small, Luke Mitcheson, Elizabeth Appiah‐Kusi, William Barber, Colette Hirsch, John Marsden   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Monsters of finance

American Ethnologist, EarlyView.
Abstract An anthropology of horror can serve as a vernacular critique of financial speculation. Drawing on fieldwork in San Pedro, Paraguay, I track horror across three registers: pombero tricksters; plata yvyguy (buried money) as a founding myth of postwar finance; and obligations binding sesame farmers to monsters, patrones, and creditors.
Caroline E. Schuster
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

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
doaj   +1 more source

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

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
doaj   +1 more source