Human emotion and the uncanny valley: A GLM, MDS, and Isomap analysis of robot video ratings

HRI 2008 - Proceedings of the 3rd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction: Living with Robots

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 169-176

  Ho, Chin Chang ^a   MacDorman, Karl F ^a   Pramono, Z A D Dwi ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Android science; Data visualization; Emotion; Uncanny valley

Indexed keywords

ANIMATED CHARACTERS; FACTOR ANALYSIS; GENERALIZED LINEAR MODEL; HUMAN EMOTION; ISOMAP ANALYSIS; ISOMETRIC MAPPING; KEY FACTORS; MULTI-DIMENSIONAL SCALING; OLDER PEOPLE; SCIENCE-DATA; UNCANNY VALLEY;

DATA VISUALIZATION; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; LANDFORMS; MAN MACHINE SYSTEMS; VISUALIZATION;

HUMAN ROBOT INTERACTION;

EID: 77649266683     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1349822.1349845     Document Type: Conference Paper

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