My robotic doppelgänger - A critical look at the Uncanny Valley

Proceedings - IEEE International Workshop on Robot and Human Interactive Communication

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 269-276

  Bartneck, Christoph ^a   Kanda, Takayuki ^b   Ishiguro, Hiroshi ^b   Hagita, Norihiro ^b  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b ADVANCED TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESCAPE ROUTE; HUMAN ROBOT INTERACTIONS; LIKEABILITY; REALISTIC ROBOTS; TWO DIMENSIONAL SPACES; UNCANNY VALLEY;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; LANDFORMS;

ROBOTS;

EID: 72849151524     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROMAN.2009.5326351     Document Type: Conference Paper

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