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Between the anthropomorphization of machines and the technomorphization of man
Journal of Modern Science, 2023 Objectives In this text, we are interested in two opposing processes inherent in functioning in the technological reality. The first of them is the anthropomorphization of machines, hence we problematize its causes and social consequences, on the other ...
Magdalena Szpunar
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Eerie Prostheses and Kinky Strap-Ons: Mori’s uncanny valley and ableist ideology
Body, Space & Technology Journal, 2014 In his paper ‘The Uncanny Valley’ (1970), Masahiro Mori advises designers to avoid high degrees of human likeness in prosthetic body parts in order not to evoke uncanniness.
Daniël Ploeger
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Frontiers 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
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2015 The uncanny valley hypothesis, proposed already in the 1970s, suggests that almost but not fully humanlike artificial characters will trigger a profound sense of unease.
Jari eKätsyri +3 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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Robot occupations affect the categorization border between human and robot faces
Scientific Reports, 2023 The Uncanny Valley hypothesis implies that people perceive a subjective border between human and robot faces. The robot–human border refers to the level of human-like features that distinguishes humans from robots.
Junyi Shen, Guyue Tang, Shinichi Koyama
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A Mismatch in the Human Realism of Face and Voice Produces an Uncanny Valley
i-Perception, 2011 The uncanny valley has become synonymous with the uneasy feeling of viewing an animated character or robot that looks imperfectly human. Although previous uncanny valley experiments have focused on relations among a character's visual elements, the ...
Wade J Mitchell +5 more
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A reappraisal of the Uncanny Valley: Categorical perception or frequency-based sensitization?
Frontiers in Psychology, 2015 The uncanny valley (UCV) hypothesis describes a non-linear relationship between perceived human-likeness and affective response. The uncanny valley refers to an intermediate level of human-likeness that is associated with strong negative affect.
Tyler John Burleigh +1 more
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Anglophonia, 2020 Sociolinguistic studies (Eckert: 2000; Labov: 1966; 1972) have shown that some allophones can carry social meaning. The use of a given allophone can indeed inform about the age, gender, or social class of a speaker.
Pierre Habasque
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Avoidance of Novelty Contributes to the Uncanny Valley
Frontiers in Psychology, 2017 A hypothesis suggests that objects with a high degree of visual similarity to real humans trigger negative impressions (i.e., the uncanny valley).
Kyoshiro Sasaki +4 more
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