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The uncanny valley effect is a heterogeneous group of phenomena. Phenomena considered as exhibiting the uncanny valley effect can be diverse, involve different sense modalities, and have multiple, possibly overlapping causes. People's cultural heritage may have a considerable influence on how androids are perceived with respect to the uncanny ...
Jentsch in 1908. Ernst Anton Jentsch (1867-1919) was a German psychiatrist.He authored works on psychology and pathology and is best known for his essay On the Psychology of the Uncanny (1906). [1]
The uncanny valley is the region of negative emotional response towards robots that seem "almost human". Movement amplifies the emotional response. This concept is closely related to Julia Kristeva 's concept of abjection , where one reacts adversely to something forcefully cast out of the symbolic order .
In her chapter "Deux sex machina: Loving robot sex workers and the allure of an insincere kiss", she proposes incorporating a temporal component to Mori's Uncanny Valley hypothesis to account for individual changes in feelings of familiarity after repeated exposure to humanoid robots, as well as larger cultural shifts of acceptance toward ...
The Media Equation is a general communication theory that claims people tend to assign human characteristics to computers and other media, and treat them as if they were real social actors. [1] The effects of this phenomenon on people experiencing these media are often profound, leading them to behave and to respond to these experiences in ...
Uncanny valley is a hypothesis that human replicas that appear almost, but not exactly, like real human beings elicit feelings of eeriness and revulsion among some observers. Uncanny valley may also refer to:
The "Frankenstein complex" is similar in many respects to Masahiro Mori's uncanny valley hypothesis. The name, "Frankenstein complex", is derived from the name of Victor Frankenstein in the 1818 novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley. In Shelley's story, Frankenstein created an intelligent, somewhat superhuman being, but ...
Shifting balance theory aims to explain how this may be possible. The shifting balance theory is a theory of evolution proposed in 1932 by Sewall Wright , suggesting that adaptive evolution may proceed most quickly when a population divides into subpopulations with restricted gene flow .