Android Science and the Uncanny Valley

In addition to sharing his published research online on his website, Karl F. MacDorman has a series of youtube videos from his presentation on the the “uncanny valley” in android science, given at the 2007 NMC Summer Conference , hosted by the Indiana University School of Informatics (June 6, 2007).  Below is part VII of the lecture.  Mind Hacks has a posted a good overview page of these videos if you want to watch them in order.

By Michael Arnzen

Michael Arnzen holds four Bram Stoker Awards and an International Horror Guild Award for his disturbing (and often funny) fiction, poetry and literary experiments. He has been teaching as a Professor of English in the MFA program in Writing Popular Fiction at Seton Hill University since 1999.

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  1. I’m really enjoying your new blog, Mike.

    Have you seen Pixar’s new film, Wall-E? The robots are endowed with personality and photorealistic textures, while the humans look plastic and rubbery — a design scheme that encourages the viewer to empathize with the robot leads, not the human supporting players.

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