The Uncanny Valley: does it exist?
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The ‘Uncanny Valley’ refers to a sense of unease and discomfort when people look at increasingly realistic virtual humans. Despite growing academic interest in the Uncanny Valley our understanding is limited and there has been little rigorous questioning to determine if the phenomenon actually exists. The Uncanny Valley questions widely held assumptions about the correlation between realism and believability within a virtual world. There is considerable anecdotal evidence for the uncanny from film, CGI and sculpture, but this does not in itself support the valley model. Four hypothesises are proposed; considering the role of presence, mismatch of cue realism, the contribution of the eyes and cultural habituation. Future research aims are then described in order to experimentally test the Uncanny Valley.
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