Empathy with Inanimate Objects and the Uncanny Valley

Misselhorn, Catrin

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“…Design challenges of distributed embodiment include specifying the means of being in other bodies, of switching between bodies, and the characteristics of those bodies -which could include human (self or not, lifelike or not), robotic, animal (Nagel, 1974), or even inanimate objects (Misselhorn, 2009). It is likely that not all these possibilities will be effective in practice.…”

Section: Our Future Embodiment(s): Challenges and Possibilitiesmentioning

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2 Altered, Expanded and Distributed Embodiment: the Three Stages of Interactive Presence

Waterworth¹,

Waterworth²

2014

Interacting With Presence: HCI and the Sense of Presence in Computer-Mediated Environments

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This conceptual chapter outlines three stages in the development of interactive presence, and outlines some possibilities and challenges raised by each, and by their combination. The first stage, presence via altered embodiment, refers to the way technology allows us to experience the world with modified or enhanced senses. The second stage, via expanded embodiment, refers to technology pushing the envelope of the mental body in which one feels present, out beyond the physical body. Finally, distributed embodiment refers to how the sense of being present in the world can be separated from that of ownership of a particular body, through the development of new approaches to deploying the technologies of virtual realization. We suggest that presence is the yardstick of embodiment from an experiential perspective. If you cannot feel presence, you are not embodied in the world.

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Section: Our Future Embodiment(s): Challenges and Possibilitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

2 Altered, Expanded and Distributed Embodiment: the Three Stages of Interactive Presence

Waterworth¹,

Waterworth²

2014

Interacting With Presence: HCI and the Sense of Presence in Computer-Mediated Environments

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“…The term 'uncanny' is used to express that the relevant objects do not just fail to elicit empathy, they even produce a sensation of eeriness. [3] This trajectory is expressed in the image below. What does this picture tell us, exactly?…”

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“…More refined (and less defensive) investigations regarding the empirical and conceptual basis of the uncanny valley exist as well [3,4,9,11]. For instance, some researchers argue that the valley may well exist, but can eventually be overcome in one of two ways.…”

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“…For instance, Karl MacDorman argues that the uncanny valley "elicits an innate fear of death and culturally supported defenses for coping with death's inevitability" [11] -an explanation that is not wholly uncontested itself [3]. Mori himself argued that the valley emerged when individuals were confronted with life-likeness -with objects (corpses, prosthetic hands) that they assumed were 'alive' at first glance, and at closer look turned out to be lifeless.…”

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“…Other researchers have developed their own hypotheses on the appearance of the uncanny valley. For example, Hanson [7] has argued that the uncanny valley does not arise so much because of confrontation with too little life-likeness, but rather because of a confrontation with too little "physical attractiveness or beauty" [3]. One of the more convincing explanations, to my mind, is the idea that the uncanny valley effect has to do with our human tendency to anthropomorphize non-human and even non-living things, to attribute "a human form, human characteristics, or human behavior to nonhuman things such as robots, computers and animals" [13].…”

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The Uncanny Valley Everywhere? On Privacy Perception and Expectation Management

Berg

2011

IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology

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Abstract. In 1970 Mori introduced the notion of the 'uncanny valley' in robotics, expressing the eeriness humans may suddenly feel when confronted with robots with a very human-like appearance. I will use the model of the uncanny valley to speak about privacy relating to social network sites and emerging technologies. Using examples, I will argue that the uncanny valley effect is already manifesting itself in some social network sites. After that, I will project the uncanny valley into the near future in relation to emerging technologies, and argue that awareness of the uncanny valley effect is of great importance to technology designers, since it may be a factor in humans' acceptance of and willingness to use these technologies. Will the uncanny valley be everywhere in the technological world of tomorrow?

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Uncanny, The

Masschelein¹

2012

The Encyclopedia of the Gothic

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The uncanny is a mild form of anxiety and alienation that arises when something familiar suddenly appears strange. Originating in psychoanalytic discourse, the uncanny was developed as a critical and theoretical concept within genre studies and poststructuralist theory in various disciplines of the humanities. At the end of the twentieth century it became a concept that draws attention to the real yet immaterial presence of what is repressed and forgotten by mainstream culture and scientific discourse.

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Empathy with Inanimate Objects and the Uncanny Valley

Cited by 102 publications

References 25 publications

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2 Altered, Expanded and Distributed Embodiment: the Three Stages of Interactive Presence

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