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Uncanny but not confusing: Multisite study of perceptual category confusion in the Uncanny Valley

, 2022
Android robots that are close, but imperfect, likenesses of humans can provoke negative feelings of dislike and eeriness in humans (“Uncanny Valley” effect).
Alice Geminiani, Peter Ruijten, Balazs Aczel, FRANCESCA LUNARDINI, David Reichling, Brandy Bessette-Symons, Maya Mathur, Alberto Antonietti, Carmel Levitan, Dylan Manfredi, Attila Szuts, Gideon Nave   +11 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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Moral Uncanny Valley

, 2022
Preregistration of Moral Uncanny Valley ...
Jussi Palomäki, Nils Köbis, Michael Laakasuo   +2 more
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Uncanny spaces for higher education: teaching and learning in virtual worlds [PDF]

, 2008
This paper brings together the theory of the uncanny as it emerges in cultural theory, with an understanding of the uncanniness and troublesomeness seen to be inherent in certain understandings of teaching and learning in higher education.
Bayne, Sian, Siân Bayne, Bayne, Sian; id_orcid   +2 more
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Towards the Standardised Set of Stimuli for the Uncanny Valley Phenomenon Studies

, 2022
This project aims at establishing the pre-validated set of 12 static 2D stimuli for the purpose of studying the so-called „uncanny valley ...
Paweł Łupkowski, Dawid Ratajczyk
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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, Jordan Richard Schoenherr   +1 more
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Some sociolinguistic evaluations of performances of the California Vowel Shift: a matched-guise study

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, Kyoshiro Sasaki, Kyoshiro Sasaki, Keiko Ihaya, Yuki Yamada   +4 more
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Teaching NICO How to Grasp: An Empirical Study on Crossmodal Social Interaction as a Key Factor for Robots Learning From Humans

Frontiers in Neurorobotics, 2020
To overcome novel challenges in complex domestic environments, humanoid robots can learn from human teachers. We propose that the capability for social interaction should be a key factor in this teaching process and benefits both the subjective ...
Matthias Kerzel, Theresa Pekarek-Rosin, Erik Strahl, Stefan Heinrich, Stefan Wermter   +4 more
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Those Virtual People all Look the Same to me: Computer-Rendered Faces Elicit a Higher False Alarm Rate Than Real Human Faces in a Recognition Memory Task

Frontiers in Psychology, 2018
Virtual as compared with real human characters can elicit a sense of uneasiness in human observers, characterized by lack of familiarity and even feelings of eeriness (the “uncanny valley” hypothesis).
Jari Kätsyri
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