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Acceptance of Anthropomorphic Technology: A Literature Review

“…Avatars and buddy icons are used to encourage interaction [38,30,24,17]. Researchers experiment with face shape and smile in smart home assistants and robots [4,6,32], and gestures, postures, and facial expressions in interface agents [9,20,26,31,41,43] to determine the effect on social attribution. Agility in robots and/or agents is also used to motivate anthropomorphism.…”

“…Agility in robots and/or agents is also used to motivate anthropomorphism. For example, MacDorman [31] uses body movement in an online doctor-patient consultation context; Mara and Appel [32] use robot head tilts; Yuan and Dennis [56] incorporate jumping, clapping, and waving of hands is seen in online product displays; Shiban et al [47] use hand movements along with face gestures in a humanlike digital tutor; Castro-González Admoni, and Scassellati [7] and Zhang et al [57] use full and smooth body movements in robots. Sometimes, anthropomorphic form is incorporated in the appearance of a social agent.…”

“…Sometimes, anthropomorphic form is incorporated in the appearance of a social agent. For example, researchers design digital agents to appear like doctors [31] health advisors [15] and tour guides [18]. Similarly, researchers embed gender [39,30,10,26,9,47], ethnicity [42,30,9], age [44,9,47], and attractiveness [47,44] to make digital agents appear like human beings.…”

“…Intelligent agents can communicate in a variety of words, message styles, and tones in both verbal and written communication to facilitate the attribution of human-like characteristics to a machine [1, 15,23,28,2,5,9,11,18,41,45,57]. Language is sometimes complemented by the ability to speak and have a voice to enhance anthropomorphic function [31,5,41,1,8,15,44]. The purpose or task expected of the technology is also associated with its function.…”

La Vallée de l’Étrange de Mori Masahiro

“…Même si ce n'est pas tout à fait correct, cette année-là marque sûrement le début de l'investigation scientifique de la vallée de l'étrange, qui n'a fait que s'accélérer depuis. Certains chercheurs ont exploré son implication dans l'interaction homme-robot (Mathur et Reichling, 2016 ;Mitchell et al, 2011) et l'animation 3D (Burleigh et Schoenherr, 2014MacDorman, 2019 ;MacDorman et Chattopadhyay, 2016 ;Seyama et Nagayama, 2007 ;Tinwell et al, 2011), alors que d'autres ont enquêté sur ses origines biologiques (Saygin et al, 2012 ;Urgen et al, 2018) et sociales (MacDorman et Entezari, 2015 ;Tondu et Bardou, 2011). L'hypothèse reste controversée, avec environ deux tiers des études publiées soutenant le phénomène (Kätsyri et al, 2015 ;Lay et al, 2016).…”