Uncanny valley of androids and its lateral inhibition hypothesis

Proceedings - IEEE International Workshop on Robot and Human Interactive Communication

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 374-379

  Shimada, Michihiro ^a,b   Minato, Takashi ^a   Itakura, Shoji ^c   Ishiguro, Hiroshi ^a,b  

^a JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MACHINE DESIGN; METROPOLITAN AREA NETWORKS; REVERSE OSMOSIS; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS;

COMMUNICATION ROBOTS; EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE; INTERACTIVE COMMUNICATIONS; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; LATERAL INHIBITION; SOCIAL INTERACTIONS; UNCANNY VALLEY;

LANDFORMS;

EID: 48749118509     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROMAN.2007.4415112     Document Type: Conference Paper

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