The uncanny valley of haptics [PDF]
, 2018 During teleoperation and virtual reality experiences, enhanced haptic feedback incongruent with other sensory cues can reduce subjective realism, producing an uncanny valley of ...
Berger, Christopher C. +3 more
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A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Attitudes Toward Robots among a Japanese and U.S. University Faculty using Implicit and Explicit Measures [PDF]
, 2009 Japan has more robots than any other country, and robots play a role in many areas of Japanese society, including manufacturing, healthcare, and entertainment.
Vasudevan, Sandosh K.
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Early Emergence of Spontaneous Trait Content in Children's Unconstrained Impressions of Faces
Developmental Science, Volume 29, Issue 2, March 2026.ABSTRACT We investigated children's spontaneous impressions of faces; a question critical for understanding the developmental trajectory of facial stereotypes. Adults and children aged 4 to 10 from the UK (children: n = 59, adults: n = 61) and the US (children: n = 189, adults: n = 180) described what they thought when viewing each of the four child's ...
Sophia M. Thierry +4 more
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Quantifying the Human Likeness of a Humanoid Robot [PDF]
, 2018 In research of human-robot interactions, human likeness (HL) of robots is frequently used as an individual, vague parameter to describe how a robot is perceived by a human. However, such a simplification of HL is often not sufficient given the complexity
Boesch, Patrick +3 more
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The Paradoxes of Ultra-realism. The Uncanny Valley Hypothesis Reconsidered
, 2022 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
People and NatureMany 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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Synthetic worlds, synthetic strategies: attaining creativity in the metaverse [PDF]
, 2009 This text will attempt to delineate the underlying theoretical premises and the definition of the output of an immersive learning approach pertaining to the visual arts to be implemented in online, three dimensional synthetic worlds.
Ayiter, Elif
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IMPACT: The Journal of the Center for Interdisciplinary Teaching and Learning. Volume 1, Issue 1, Summer 2012 [PDF]
, 2002 Impact: The Journal of the Center for Interdisciplinary Teaching & Learning is a peer-reviewed, biannual online journal that publishes scholarly and creative non-fiction essays about the theory, practice and assessment of interdisciplinary education ...
Dubois, Patrick
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Too real for comfort? Uncanny responses to computer generated faces [PDF]
, 2014 As virtual humans approach photorealistic perfection, they risk making real humans uncomfortable. This intriguing phenomenon, known as the uncanny valley, is well known but not well understood.
Green, Robert D. +3 more
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, 2021 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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