Uncanny Valley - The significance of the uncanny - Article Index

Encyclopedia - 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 ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 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...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 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...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 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...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 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....   » Read the article