Empathy with inanimate objects and the uncanny valley

Minds and Machines

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 345-359

  Misselhorn, Catrin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Androids; Empathy; Imaginative perception; Uncanny valley

Indexed keywords

DEGREE OF SIMILARITY; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; PHILOSOPHICAL EXPLANATIONS; UNCANNY VALLEY;

HELIUM; PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS; ROBOTS;

LANDFORMS;

EID: 71149112782     PISSN: 09246495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11023-009-9158-2     Document Type: Article

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