Expanding the Uncanny Valley
on 20 Jul 2007
In 2005, Japanese roboticist Masahiro Mori issued a brief article, On Uncanny Valley, which proposes an amendment to his original graph of familiarity vs. appearance (human likeness). He adds “something more attractive and amiable than human beings in the further right-hand side of the valley.” I’ve created this figure as a sketch of this expanded notion of Mori’s valley.
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July 20 2007
Is this the article?
http://www.androidscience.com/theuncannyvalley/proceedings2005/MoriMasahiro22August2005.html
I wonder if the same could be determined for other exaggerated portrayals of human characteristics like venus figures. There’s an article that appeared a while ago in the SL media, maybe NWN, about how the avatars that seem most convincingly real, the most human and lifelike to us are not the most photorealistic but the ones with some exaggerated features. In photorealistic avatars we notice much more easily all the ways it doesn’t look like a human. But if a few features are hyper-humanlike in their resemblance then we can buy into it much more easily.
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