scholarly journals The effect of onset asynchrony in audio-visual speech and the Uncanny Valley in virtual characters

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 97 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela Tinwell ◽  
Mark Grimshaw ◽  
Deborah Abdel Nabi
Keyword(s):  
Visual Speech ◽  
Uncanny Valley ◽  
Virtual Characters ◽  
The Uncanny ◽  
Onset Asynchrony

scholarly journals Uncanny Valley in Video Games: An Overview

Homo Ludens ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 135-148
Author(s):  
Dawid Ratajczyk
Keyword(s):  
Video Games ◽  
Negative Emotions ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Humanoid Robots ◽  
Uncanny Valley ◽  
Virtual Characters ◽  
The Uncanny ◽  
Game Industry ◽  
In The Beginning ◽  
The Impact

The uncanny valley is an idea proposed by Masahiro Mori (1970) regarding negative emotions present in contacts with almost humanlike characters. In the beginning, it was considered only in the context of humanoid robots, but this context was broadened by the development of highly realistic animations and video games. Particularly evident are players’ interests in the uncanny valley. Recently there have been a growing number of reports from empirical studies regarding participants’ perception of highly realistic characters. In the paper, a review of publications concerning the uncanny valley hypothesis in video games is presented, as are deliberations about the impact of the uncanny valley on the game industry. According to the results, there is a need to recognise which attributes of virtual characters cause the uncanny valley effect.

Perception of psychopathy and the Uncanny Valley in virtual characters

2013 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 1617-1625 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela Tinwell ◽  
Deborah Abdel Nabi ◽  
John P. Charlton
Keyword(s):  
Uncanny Valley ◽  
Virtual Characters ◽  
The Uncanny

scholarly journals Facial expression of emotion and perception of the Uncanny Valley in virtual characters

2011 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 741-749 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela Tinwell ◽  
Mark Grimshaw ◽  
Debbie Abdel Nabi ◽  
Andrew Williams
Keyword(s):  
Facial Expression ◽  
Uncanny Valley ◽  
Virtual Characters ◽  
Facial Expression Of Emotion ◽  
The Uncanny ◽  
Expression Of Emotion

Trading faces: Complete AI face doubles avoid the uncanny valley

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Welker ◽  
David France ◽  
Alice Henty ◽  
Thalia Wheatley
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Sexual Orientation ◽  
Uncanny Valley ◽  
Torture Survivors ◽  
The Uncanny ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Full Face ◽  
The Impact

Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) enable the creation of videos in which a person appears to say or do things they did not. The impact of these so-called “deepfakes” hinges on their perceived realness. Here we tested different versions of deepfake faces for Welcome to Chechnya, a documentary that used face swaps to protect the privacy of Chechen torture survivors who were persecuted because of their sexual orientation. AI face swaps that replace an entire face with another were perceived as more human-like and less unsettling compared to partial face swaps that left the survivors’ original eyes unaltered. The full-face swap was deemed the least unsettling even in comparison to the original (unaltered) face. When rendered in full, AI face swaps can appear human and avoid aversive responses in the viewer associated with the uncanny valley.

The Uncanny Valley

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessy Rose Goodman
Keyword(s):  
Uncanny Valley ◽  
The Uncanny

Eliza in the uncanny valley: anthropomorphizing consumer robots increases their perceived warmth but decreases liking

2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seo Young Kim ◽  
Bernd H. Schmitt ◽  
Nadia M. Thalmann
Keyword(s):  
Uncanny Valley ◽  
The Uncanny

scholarly journals Sending an Avatar to Do a Human's Job: Compliance with Authority Persists Despite the Uncanny Valley

2015 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Himalaya Patel ◽  
Karl F. MacDorman
Keyword(s):  
Ethical Dilemma ◽  
Sensitive Information ◽  
Uncanny Valley ◽  
Human Communication ◽  
Risk Of Falling ◽  
Computer Interfaces ◽  
The Uncanny ◽  
Authority Figure ◽  
Human Likeness ◽  
Motion Quality

Just as physical appearance affects social influence in human communication, it may also affect the processing of advice conveyed through avatars, computer-animated characters, and other human-like interfaces. Although the most persuasive computer interfaces are often the most human-like, they have been predicted to incur the greatest risk of falling into the uncanny valley, the loss of empathy attributed to characters that appear eerily human. Previous studies compared interfaces on the left side of the uncanny valley, namely, those with low human likeness. To examine interfaces with higher human realism, a between-groups factorial experiment was conducted through the internet with 426 midwestern U.S. undergraduates. This experiment presented a hypothetical ethical dilemma followed by the advice of an authority figure. The authority was manipulated in three ways: depiction (digitally recorded or computer animated), motion quality (smooth or jerky), and advice (disclose or refrain from disclosing sensitive information). Of these, only the advice changed opinion about the ethical dilemma, even though the animated depiction was significantly eerier than the human depiction. These results indicate that compliance with an authority persists even when using an uncannily realistic computer-animated double.

Empirical evaluation of the uncanny valley hypothesis fails to confirm the predicted effect of motion

Cognition ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 130 (3) ◽  
pp. 271-277 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lukasz Piwek ◽  
Lawrie S. McKay ◽  
Frank E. Pollick
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Evaluation ◽  
Uncanny Valley ◽  
The Uncanny

scholarly journals The thing that should not be: predictive coding and the uncanny valley in perceiving human and humanoid robot actions

2011 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 413-422 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ayse Pinar Saygin ◽  
Thierry Chaminade ◽  
Hiroshi Ishiguro ◽  
Jon Driver ◽  
Chris Frith
Keyword(s):  
Humanoid Robot ◽  
Predictive Coding ◽  
Uncanny Valley ◽  
The Uncanny
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