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The Uncanny Valley Hypothesis and Beyond [PDF]
, 2018 A field of theory and research is evolving around the question highlighted in the Uncanny Valley Hypothesis: How does high realism in anthropomorphic design influence human experience and behaviour? The Uncanny Valley Hypothesis posits that a very humanlike character or object (e.g., robot, prosthetic limb, doll) can evoke a negative affective (i.e ...
Marcus Cheetham
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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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Examining Applicability of Uncanny Valley Hypothesis: A Large-Scale Study. [PDF]
, 2023 Despite a growing interest in applying the uncanny valley hypothesis (UVH) in IS studies, there is a paucity of knowledge on the applicability of UVH and its strength. By summarizing a set of attitudinal variables popularized in the extant IS literature on AI robots, this study examined the strength and applicability of UVH on a large, objectively ...
Tuunainen Virpi Kristiina +2 more
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An Investigation into the uncanny: character design, behaviour and context. [PDF]
Whilst there has been a substantial amount of research into the uncanny valley, defining research that contextualises a character as they would normally be viewed remains an unexplored area.
Tharib, S
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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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Uncanny but not confusing: Multisite study of perceptual category confusion in the Uncanny Valley [PDF]
, 2019 \u3cp\u3eAndroid robots that resemble humans closely, but not perfectly, can provoke negative feelings of dislike and eeriness in humans (the “Uncanny Valley” effect). We investigated whether category confusion between the perceptual categories of “robot”
Ruijten, Peter A.M.; id_orcid +36 more
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The Moral Uncanny Valley [PDF]
Masahito Mori hypothesised that robots that look somewhat but not quite enough like humans are likely to arouse a sense of unease and discomfort. This hugely influential design hypothesis about robot appearance has been dubbed the ‘Uncanny Valley.’ I ...
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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 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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