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No “uncanny valley” effect in science-telling AI avatars For science communication, realistic avatars may foster more trustworthiness than cartoon-like ones, says a new paper in JCOM ...

Until now, research on the "uncanny valley" phenomenon has focused mainly on robots' appearance. But their study, published in the International Journal of Social Robotics, suggests that behavior ...

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However, Baake emphasizes that while no uncanny valley effect was found here, future studies should test a broader range of realism levels to investigate whether an intermediate uncanny valley ...

Scientists now believe they’ve figured out what causes the uncanny valley response. Researchers at the University of California, San Diego, used an MRI to scan the brains of 20 people as they ...

Researchers found that AI-generated food images, particularly imperfect ones, evoke an uncanny valley effect, making them appear eerie and less pleasant, especially among people with food neophobia.

Until now, research on the “uncanny valley” phenomenon has focused mainly on robots’ appearance. But their study, published in the International Journal of Social Robotics, suggests that ...