Danger Avoidance: An Evolutionary Explanation of Uncanny Valley

Biological Theory

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 12-14

  Moosa, Mahdi Muhammad ^a   Ud Dean, S M Minhaz ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DHAKA   (Bangladesh)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Biological Theory; Human Corpse; Mortality Salience; Synthetic Agent; Uncanny Valley

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865066568     PISSN: 15555542     EISSN: 15555550     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/BIOT_a_00016     Document Type: Article

References (21)

1. Bartneck C, Kanda T, Ishiguro H, Hagita N (2007) Is the uncanny valley an uncanny cliff? In: 16th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, RO-MAN 2007, Jeju, Korea, 368–373. Alberta, Canada: IEEE.
2. Dautenhahn K, Woods S, Kaouri C, Walters ML, Koay KL, Werry I (2005) What is a robot companion: Friend, assistant or butler? In: Proceedings of the IROS 2005, IEEE IRS/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, August 2–6, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, 1488–1493. London: Routledge.
3. Field D, Hockey J, Small N (1997) Making sense of difference: Death, gender and ethnicity in modern Britain. In: Death, Gender and Ethnicity (Field D, Hockey J, Small N, eds), 1–28. London: Routledge. DOI: 10.4324/9780203280454
4. MacDorman KF (2005) Mortality salience and the uncanny valley. In: 5th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, 2005, Tsukuba, Japan, 399–405. Tsukuba, Japan: IEEE. DOI: 10.1109/ICHR.2005.1573600
5. MacDorman K, Green R, Ho C, Koch C (2009) Too real for comfort? Uncanny responses to computer-generated faces. Computers in Human Behavior 25: 695–710. DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2008.12.026
6. Minato T, Shimada M, Ishiguro H, Itakura S (2004) Development of an android robot for studying human-robot interaction. In: Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Innovations in Applied Artificial Intelligence, Ottawa, Canada, 424–434. Berlin: Springer.
7. Misslin R (1982) Aspects du déterminisme des réactions de la souris à un objet nouveau. Biology Behaviour 3: 209–214.
8. Misslin R (2003) The defense system of fear: Behavior and neurocircuitry. Neurophysiologie Clinique/Clinical Neurophysiology 33: 55–66. DOI: 10.1016/S0987-7053(03)00009-1
9. Misslin R, Ropartz P (1981) Responses in mice to a novel object. Behaviour 78: 169–177. DOI: 10.1163/156853981X00301
10. Mori M (1970) The uncanny valley. Energy 7(4): 33–35.
11. Nash L (1974) Parturition in a feral baboon (Papio anubis). Primates 15: 279–285. DOI: 10.1007/BF01742289
12. Rhodes G, Yoshikawa S, Clark A, Lee K, McKay R, Akamatsu S (2001) Attractiveness of facial averageness and symmetry in non-western cultures: In search of biologically based standards of beauty. Perception 30: 611–625. DOI: 10.1068/p3123
13. Rozin P, Fallon A (1987) A perspective on disgust. Psychological Review 94: 23–41. DOI: 10.1037/0033-295X.94.1.23
14. Saponetti S, Scattarella F, De Lucia A, Scattarella V (2007) Paleobiology, palaeopathology and necrophobic practices in early iron age burials (IX–VII century BC) in Capo Colonna, Trani, Apulia, Southern Italy—the state of health of a small sample from iron age. Collegium Antropologicum 31: 339–344.
15. Seyama J, Nagayama R (2007) The uncanny valley: Effect of realism on the impression of artificial human faces. Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments 16: 337–351. DOI: 10.1162/pres.16.4.337
16. Simon JP (1995) The State of Humanity. Oxford: Blackwell.
17. Spennemann DHR (2007) Of great apes and robots: Considering the future(s) of cultural heritage. Futures 39: 861–877. DOI: 10.1016/j.futures.2006.12.008
18. Steckenfinger SA, Ghazanfar AA (2009) Monkey visual behavior falls into the uncanny valley. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 106: 18362–18366. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0910063106
19. Visscher PK (1983) The honey bee way of death: Necrophoric behaviour in Apis mellifera colonies. Animal Behaviour 31: 1070–1076. DOI: 10.1016/S0003-3472(83)80014-1
20. Wilson E, Durlach N, Roth L (1958) Chemical releasers of necrophoric behavior in ants. Psyche 65: 108–114. DOI: 10.1155/1958/69391
21. Yao M, Rosenfeld J, Attridge S, Sidhu S, Aksenov V, Rollo C (2009) The ancient chemistry of avoiding risks of predation and disease. Evolutionary Biology 36: 267–281. DOI: 10.1007/s11692-009-9069-4