Uncanny valley: A preliminary study on the acceptance of Malaysian urban and rural population toward different types of robotic faces

Tay, Tee Tiong; Low, Raymond; Loke, He Jiang; Chua, Yaw Long; Goh, Yeh Huann

doi:10.1088/1757-899x/344/1/012012

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“…(2012) . Furthermore, this theory introduces an interesting concept to consider in developing humanoid robotic systems ( Betriana et al., 2021 ; Tay et al., 2018 ). Mori has observed that human affinity to robotic systems increases when its human-like features increase until a certain point where people begin to feel strange towards robots that are almost human in physical characteristics and behavior.…”

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Nursing and human-computer interaction in healthcare robots for older people: An integrative review

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Dion

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International Journal of Nursing Studies Advances

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Nursing and human-computer interaction in healthcare robots for older people: An integrative review

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Davidson

Dion

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International Journal of Nursing Studies Advances

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Shape of the Uncanny Valley and Emotional Attitudes Toward Robots Assessed by an Analysis of YouTube Comments

Ratajczyk

2022

Int J of Soc Robotics

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The uncanny valley hypothesis (UVH) suggests that almost, but not fully, humanlike artificial characters elicit a feeling of eeriness or discomfort in observers. This study used Natural Language Processing of YouTube comments to provide ecologically-valid, non-laboratory results about people’s emotional reactions toward robots. It contains analyses of 224,544 comments from 1515 videos showing robots from a wide humanlikeness spectrum. The humanlikeness scores were acquired from the Anthropomorphic roBOT database. The analysis showed that people use words related to eeriness to describe very humanlike robots. Humanlikeness was linearly related to both general sentiment and perceptions of eeriness—-more humanlike robots elicit more negative emotions. One of the subscales of humanlikeness, Facial Features, showed a UVH-like relationship with both sentiment and eeriness. The exploratory analysis demonstrated that the most suitable words for measuring the self-reported uncanny valley effect are: ‘scary’ and ‘creepy’. In contrast to theoretical expectations, the results showed that humanlikeness was not related to either pleasantness or attractiveness. Finally, it was also found that the size of robots influences sentiment toward the robots. According to the analysis, the reason behind this is the perception of smaller robots as more playable (as toys), although the prediction that bigger robots would be perceived as more threatening was not supported.

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An interactive AR textbook prototype conceptual framework assesses elementary school students’ learning experiences and emotions using design-based research (DBR)

Ramli,

Hashim,

Mustafa

2024

AIP Conference Proceedings

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Uncanny valley: A preliminary study on the acceptance of Malaysian urban and rural population toward different types of robotic faces

Cited by 3 publications

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Nursing and human-computer interaction in healthcare robots for older people: An integrative review

Nursing and human-computer interaction in healthcare robots for older people: An integrative review

Shape of the Uncanny Valley and Emotional Attitudes Toward Robots Assessed by an Analysis of YouTube Comments

An interactive AR textbook prototype conceptual framework assesses elementary school students’ learning experiences and emotions using design-based research (DBR)

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