Effects of robotic agents' appearances on users' interpretations of the agents' attitudes: Towards an expansion of "uncanny valley" assumption

Proceedings - IEEE International Workshop on Robot and Human Interactive Communication

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 380-385

  Komatsu, Takanori ^a,b   Yamada, Seiji ^a,c  

^a IEEE

^b FUTURE UNIVERSITY HAKODATE   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATICS   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC COMPOUNDS; LAPTOP COMPUTERS; METROPOLITAN AREA NETWORKS; REVERSE OSMOSIS; ROBOTS;

AIBO ROBOT; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; INTERACTIVE COMMUNICATIONS; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; MINDSTORMS; PSYCHOLOGICAL EXPERIMENTS; ROBOTIC AGENTS; SUBTLE EXPRESSIONS; UNCANNY VALLEY;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 48749096270     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROMAN.2007.4415113     Document Type: Conference Paper

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