Showing posts with label uncanny valley. Show all posts
Showing posts with label uncanny valley. Show all posts
Saturday, May 23, 2009
Uncanny Valley of the Super Vixens
The "uncanny valley" is a hypothesis that as a robot is made more humanlike, the emotional response from a human being to the robot will become increasingly positive and empathic, until a point is reached beyond which the response quickly becomes that of strong repulsion. The phenomenon can be explained by the notion that, if an entity is sufficiently non-humanlike, then the humanlike characteristics will tend to stand out and be noticed easily, generating empathy. On the other hand, if the entity is "almost human", then the non-human characteristics will be the ones that stand out, leading to a feeling of "strangeness" in the human viewer.
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