The Uncanny Valley Is Wrong

Thnk about the way they move:
- Animations move very expressively.
- Humans are less animated, but they have the fundamental expressive nature that you can understand.
- These "uncanny" animations and robots move strangely or creepily. Is their movement really a mix of animation and humans?

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Time Stamps
00:00 Intro
00:48 Uncanny Valley “basics”
2:08 “Human Likeness” is too broad
4:46 Cherry Picking
7:22 Summary of what’s wrong
8:00 What’s right
8:47 What’s actually going on

Sources
The ambiguity of “human likeness”
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2011.00126/full

Morphs where it gets creepy in the middle
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/241217609_Subjective_Ratings_of_Robot_Video_Clips_for_Human_Likeness_Familiarity_and_Eeriness_An_Exploration_of_the_Uncanny_Valley

Demonstrating the uncanny valley isn’t simply based on likeness
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.472.2518&rep=rep1&type=pdf

Seeing Faces
(patterns on left side of brain were the same for faces and non faces. But the right side of brain was different for faces or non faces. Seems the left side of the brain goes “FACE!” then the right side of the brain goes “OK, let’s work this out”)https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2011.1784
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6290235/
https://jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx?articleid=2651179
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/233387v1.full

The study with all those images
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010027715300640

Original uncanny valley paper
https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/humanoids/the-uncanny-valley

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