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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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Overcoming the uncanny valley: Displays of emotions reduce the uncanniness of humanlike robots [PDF]

, 2016
In this paper we show empirically that highly humanlike robots make thoughts of death more accessible, leading to perceptions of uncanniness and eeriness of such robots. Rather than reducing the humanlikeness of robots, our research suggests the addition
ACM, Bremner, P, Koschate, M, Levine, M, Potter, R   +4 more
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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, Kevin A Szerszen, Amy Shirong Lu, Paul W Schermerhorn, Matthias Scheutz, Karl F MacDorman   +5 more
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Walking in the uncanny valley: importance of the attractiveness on the acceptance of a robot as a working partner [PDF]

, 2015
The Uncanny valley theory, which tells us that almost-human characteristics in a robot or a device could cause uneasiness in human observers, is an important research theme in the Human Robot Interaction (HRI) field.
Matthieu eDestephe, Martim eBrandao, Tatsuhiro eKishi, Massimiliano eZecca, Kenji eHashimoto, Atsuo eTakanishi, Atsuo eTakanishi   +6 more
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A Bayesian explanation of the 'Uncanny Valley' effect and related psychological phenomena [PDF]

, 2012
There are a number of psychological phenomena in which dramatic emotional responses are evoked by seemingly innocuous perceptual stimuli. A well known example is the ‘uncanny valley’ effect whereby a near human-looking artifact can trigger feelings of ...
AM Liberman, AP Saygin, C Misselhorn, J Seyama, JC Thompson, JH Langlois, K MacDorman, KF MacDorman, L Bruckert, LA Warwick-Evans, M Mori, NH Feldman, PG Grieve, PK Kuhl, Willem Bles, WJ Mitchell   +15 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, 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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