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Uncanny Valley: Encyclopedia - Uncanny Valley
The Uncanny Valley is a principle of robotics concerning the emotional response of humans to robots and other non-human entities. It was ...
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Flintshire: Encyclopedia Ii - Flintshire - Principal Area
The current administrative area of Flintshire - now known as a unitary authority - came into existence in 1996, when the former administr...
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Uncanny Valley: Encyclopedia Ii - Uncanny Valley - The Uncanny Valley In Film
Although originally resulting from experimental data and applied only to robotics, the principle has been applied to computer animation c...
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Uncanny Valley: Encyclopedia Ii - Uncanny Valley - The Significance Of The Uncanny
In the familiarity graph above, a healthy person is at the top of the second peak. And when we die, we fall into the trough of the uncann...
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Uncanny Valley: Encyclopedia Ii - Uncanny Valley - Effects Of Movement
For creatures, including robots, movement is generally a sign of life. As shown in the figure above, adding movement changes the shape of...
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Flintshire: Encyclopedia Ii - Flintshire - Traditional Flintshire
The historic county did not have the same boundaries as administrative Flintshire; in particular it had a large exclave called Maelor Sae...
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Uncanny Valley: Encyclopedia Ii - Uncanny Valley - Valley Of Familiarity
There are mathematical functions of the form y = f(x) for which the value of y increases (or decreases) continuously with the value of x....
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