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Exploring The Uncanny Valley

  • Home
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    • Phase 1: Imagining a robot in your home
    • Phase 2: Near-human face perception
    • Phase 3: Emotion and the Uncanny Valley
    • Future Directions
    • MSc Research: Is there an uncanny valley?
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    • Media Coverage
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 Publications: Uncanny Valley

Lay, Stephanie; Brace, Nicola; Pike, Graham and Pollick, Frank (2016). Circling Around the Uncanny Valley: Design Principles for Research Into the Relation Between Human Likeness and Eeriness. i-Perception, 7(6) pp. 1–11.

Lay, Stephanie Claire (2015). The Uncanny Valley Effect. PhD thesis. The Open University.

Publications: Educational Research

Ullmann, Thomas; Lay, Stephanie; Cross, Simon; Edwards, Chris; Gaved, Mark; Jones, Edwina; Hidalgo, Rafael; Evans, Gerald; Lowe, Sue; Calder, Kathleen; Clow, Doug; Coughlan, Tim; Herodotou, Christothea; Mangafa, Chrysoula and Rienties, Bart (2018). Scholarly insight Spring 2018: a Data wrangler perspective. Open University UK, Milton Keynes.

Ullmann, Thomas; Lay, Stephanie; Coughlan, Tim; Lister, Katharine; Cross, Simon; Rienties, Bart and Whitelock, Denise (2018). Understanding SEaM student comments from a Big(ger)Data perspective: what are students saying? In: CARLG 2018 Conference 18-19 June 2018 Conference Proceedings p. 39.

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