Navigating a social world with robot partners: A quantitative cartography of the Uncanny Valley

Cognition

Volumn 146, Issue , 2016, Pages 22-32

  Mathur, Maya B ^a   Reichling, David B ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Facial appearance; Game theory; Human robot interaction; Social decision making; Social interaction; Trust

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONFUSION (UNCERTAINTY); DECISION MAKING; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FACIES; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN ROBOT SOCIAL INTERACTION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROBOTICS; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; TRUST; FACIAL RECOGNITION; GAME; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY;

ADULT; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FACIAL RECOGNITION; FEMALE; GAME THEORY; HUMANS; MALE; ROBOTICS; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; TRUST;

EID: 84942154696     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: 18737838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2015.09.008     Document Type: Article

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