The uncanny advantage of using androids in cognitive and social science research

By Karl Frederic MacDorman, Hiroshi Ishiguro. 2006

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Does Japan really have robot mania? Comparing attitudes by implicit and explicit measures (2008, background): “…enough to pass on its genes to the next generation and ensure its success, we are led to a biological explanation of negative feelings toward robots that must hold regardless of culture (e.g., the issues surrounding mate selection or pathogen avoidance discussed in MacDorman and Ishiguro 2006).”
The Uncanny Valley: Existence and Explanations (2015, methodology): “These interpretations vary from “familiarity” (MacDorman, 2006, p. 26; MacDorman & Ishiguro, 2006, p. 299; Mori, 1970/2005, p. 33; Tinwell et al., 2011, p. 741) to “impression of pleasantness” (Seyama & Nagayama, 2007, p. 337), “acceptability” (Green et al., 2008, p. 2459; Hanson, Olney, Pereira, &…”
Too real for comfort? Uncanny responses to computer generated faces (2009, background): “Hence, it is unsurprising that an uncanny android can elicit the same psychological defenses as subliminal reminders of death (MacDorman & Ishiguro, 2006).”
Categorization difficulty is associated with negative evaluation in the “uncanny valley” phenomenon (2013, background): “Likewise, an observer may associate disassembled or incomplete human-like agents with scenes of a battlefield containing wounded human bodies after conflict (MacDorman & Ishiguro, 2006).”
Service robot implementation: a theoretical framework and research agenda (2019, background): “Walters, Syrdal, Dauten-hahn,TeBoekhorst,andKoay(2008,p.164)proposethreecategories,accordingtothelevelof anthropomorphism (Gong & Nass, 2007; MacDorman & Ishiguro, 2006): (1) mechanoids, which are relatively machine-like in appearance with no overtly human-like features; (2) humanoids that are ‘…”
Avoiding the uncanny valley: robot appearance, personality and consistency of behavior in an attention-seeking home scenario for a robot companion (2008, methodology): “…of robot appearance for Mechanoid and Humanoid robots used in this article are based on the definitions for animated agents' appearances adopted by Gong & Nass (2007), and for Android robots from MacDorman & Ishiguro (2006): Mechanoid -a robot which is relatively machine-like in appearance.”
How Humans Teach Agents - A New Experimental Perspective (2012, background): “Given the different strengths of human and computational agents, we expect both to play an important role in future behavioral studies, a view shared by some in the human-robot interaction community [6, 9, 22].”
Revisiting the uncanny valley theory: Developing and validating an alternative to the Godspeed indices (2010, background): “An attractiveness index is included, because physical attractiveness is an important dimension in explanations of the uncanny valley based on evolved perceptual and cognitive mechanisms for mate selection and pathogen avoidance (MacDorman & Ishiguro, 2006; MacDorman et al., 2009).”
Interactions With Robots: The Truths We Reveal About Ourselves (2017, background): “Some evidence supports the existence of the uncanny valley, with a demonstrated drop in familiarity and a rise in eeriness in the middle of a series of images morphed from a robot face to a human (MacDorman & Ishiguro 2006).”
Feeling robots and human zombies: mind perception and the uncanny valley. (2012, background): “Some suggest humanlike robots may be unnerving because they remind people of death (MacDorman & Ishiguro, 2006), while others suggest that the unnervingness of humanlike robots may stem from abnormal facial features (Seyama & Nagayama, 2007).”
Individual differences predict sensitivity to the uncanny valley (2015, background): “…sensations could be caused by uncertainty about the category to which an entity belongs and especially by uncertainty about whether the entity is living or nonliving, human or nonhuman (MacDorman & Ishiguro, 2006), or sentient or insentient (Gray & Wegner, 2012; Waytz, Gray, Epley, & Wegner, 2010).”
The thing that should not be: predictive coding and the uncanny valley in perceiving human and humanoid robot actions (2011, background): “Contribution to the understanding of the uncanny valley The uncanny valley has many potential dimensions (MacDorman and Ishiguro, 2006; Ho and MacDorman, 2010; Pollick, 2009).”
Socially intelligent robots: dimensions of human–robot interaction (2007, neutral): “Here, robots were ‘artiﬁcial people’, machines that could be mistaken for humans (thus more closely related to present-day work on androids; MacDorman & Ishiguro 2006).”