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ABSTRACT Firms often seek to replace human agents (HAs) with automated agents (AAs) for customer service, but customers still tend to react more negatively to AAs than to HAs. This meta‐analysis examines agent‐related perceptions (i.e., humanlikeness, warmth, and competence), which represent the key upstream customer reactions shaping downstream ...
Sandra Miederer +3 more
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Empathy with Inanimate Objects and the Uncanny Valley
The term “uncanny valley” goes back to an article of the Japanese roboticist Masahiro Mori (Mori 1970, 2005). He put forward the hypothesis that humanlike objects like certain kinds of robots elicit emotional responses similar to real humans ...
Misselhorn, Catrin, Catrin Misselhorn
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Abstract Adopting physical expressions of emotion has feedback effects on individuals' mood and behaviour; for example, adopting the expansive and contractive body language of dominance and submission can affect individuals' feelings of power. However, postural feedback paradigms almost exclusively use deliberate, active posture manipulations, which ...
Soren Wainio‐Theberge, Jorge Armony
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The Uncanny Valley Hypothesis in Relation to the Synthetic Speech
Cílem této práce je posoudit vztah hypotézy "uncanny valley" k uměle vytvořené řeči. K těmto účelům je uvedeno stručné představení současných řečových technologií.
Tisarová, Daniela
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The uncanny valley hypothesis and the model’s prediction.
The solid blue line indicates the uncanny valley effect. The red dashed line shows the model’s prediction for children with ASD.
Yuki Ueyama (798152)
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The Paradoxes of Ultra-realism. The Uncanny Valley Hypothesis Reconsidered
This contribution reconstructs the case of the so-called uncanny valley, or precisely the dimension of eerie feeling that overcomes us before the robot when it too closely resembles the human. He explores its origins in the reflection of robotics and the most current studies with a neuroscientific and neuroaesthetic approach.
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Using photo editing to understand the impact of species aesthetics on support for conservation
Many threatened species suffer from a lack of conservation attention compared to others. Prioritisation of funding, research and conservation efforts seem to be driven by reasons beyond conservation need.
Meghan Shaw +4 more
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In this thesis, I posit a conception of a specific subset of the Uncanny Valley of the Mind sensation that I call Uncanny Logic. A notion that was inspired by a passage in Adam Greenfield’s book Radical Technologies: The Design of Everyday Life detailing the experiences of discomfort by the spectators who witnessed the Go matches between Google ...
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