Can looking at a hand make your skin crawl? Peering into the uncanny valley for hands

Perception

Volumn 42, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 998-1000

  Poliakoff, Ellen ^a   Beach, Natalie ^a   Best, Rebecca ^a   Howard, Toby ^a   Gowen, Emma ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Hands; Humanness; Prosthetics; Social; Uncanny valley

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887184375     PISSN: 03010066     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/p7569     Document Type: Article

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