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A mismatch in the human realism of face and voice produces an uncanny valley

The uncanny valley has become synonymous with the uneasy feeling of viewing an animated character or robot that looks imperfectly human. Although previous uncanny valley experiments have focused on relations among a character's visual elements, the current experiment examines whether a mismatch...

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Autores principales: Mitchell, Wade J, Szerszen, Kevin A, Lu, Amy Shirong, Schermerhorn, Paul W, Scheutz, Matthias, MacDorman, Karl F
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Pion 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3485769/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23145223
http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/i0415
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author Mitchell, Wade J
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Lu, Amy Shirong
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Scheutz, Matthias
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description The uncanny valley has become synonymous with the uneasy feeling of viewing an animated character or robot that looks imperfectly human. Although previous uncanny valley experiments have focused on relations among a character's visual elements, the current experiment examines whether a mismatch in the human realism of a character's face and voice causes it to be evaluated as eerie. The results support this hypothesis.
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spelling pubmed-34857692012-11-09 A mismatch in the human realism of face and voice produces an uncanny valley Mitchell, Wade J Szerszen, Kevin A Lu, Amy Shirong Schermerhorn, Paul W Scheutz, Matthias MacDorman, Karl F Iperception Short and Sweet The uncanny valley has become synonymous with the uneasy feeling of viewing an animated character or robot that looks imperfectly human. Although previous uncanny valley experiments have focused on relations among a character's visual elements, the current experiment examines whether a mismatch in the human realism of a character's face and voice causes it to be evaluated as eerie. The results support this hypothesis. Pion 2011-03-01 /pmc/articles/PMC3485769/ /pubmed/23145223 http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/i0415 Text en Copyright © 2011 W J Mitchell, K A Szerszen, A S Lu, P W Schermerhorn, M Scheutz, K F MacDorman http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ This open-access article is distributed under a Creative Commons Licence, which permits noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction, provided the original author(s) and source are credited and no alterations are made.
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/i0415
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