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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Human-likeness."”.
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Applied psychology in human-computer interaction: the social impact of a virtual assistant's gender and human-likeness in self-service
This research applies psychological theory to human-computer interaction and the creation of a virtual assistant (VA) for use in self-‐service checkouts (SSCOs). Existing research investigating the impact of interface agents and avatars in virtual shopping, gaming, and teaching environments …
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The Uncanny Valley Effect
… making industrial robots appear so highly human-like that they could unsettle the real humans around them. It proposed a specific pattern of negative emotional responses to entities that were almost but not quite human, and has been proposed as the reason why some entities such as dolls, …
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The Social Uncanny Valley
… to the observation that robots who are highly human-like elicit negative responses from observers. Based on this observation, we examine human responses to AI-generated objects which are very similar to those made by humans. To date, it is unknown whether such products can elicit the Uncanny …
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Multi-Objective Bilevel Bayesian optimization for robot and behavior co-design
… the robot arm placement problem by integrating human-likeness into objectives. To account for human likeness, we construct trajectory-based metrics to evaluate how well the robot arm follows the human motion trajectories extracted from the TUM Kitchen dataset and how similar the robot arm …
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Baby Gym: Bridging the Gap between Reinforcement Learning and Human Infant Locomotor Development
… move is one of the most fundamental milestones humans achieve during their development, through complex interactions between neural control, biomechanics, and the environment. However, not every human learns to locomote the same way: babies exhibit remarkable variance in the stages they undergo …
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Inductive Biases in Learning Hierarchical Abstractions for Bipedal Locomotion
… performance, learning efficiency, stability, and human-likeness metrics derived from human locomotion studies. We quantify the effectiveness of hierarchical abstractions and inductive biases in enhancing locomotion task performance and aligning RL-generated behaviors with human locomotion …
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Acceptance of anthropomorphic technology.
… as the way a person looks and/or behaves affects human-to-human interaction, it may also affect the interaction of humans with avatars, digital characters, and computer interfaces. Anthropomorphic technology is technology that looks or behaves like human beings and is increasingly playing an …
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Learning Effective and Human-like Policies for Strategic, Multi-Agent Games
We consider the task of building effective but human-like policies in multi-agent decision-making problems. Imitation learning (IL) is effective at predicting human actions but may not match the strength of expert humans, while reinforcement learning (RL) and search algorithms lead to strong …
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On development and perception of theomorphic robots: the uncanny valley effect to Artificial Intelligence (AI)
… While initially conceived as a platform for Human–Robot Interaction (HRI) studies, this research adopts a novel methodological shift: rather than directly testing with human participants, the evaluation uses OpenAI’s Contrastive Language–Image Pre-training (CLIP) model to simulate perception …
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Just like me but not exactly: AI, anthropomorphism & the human-technology gap
… towards romanticised visions of intelligence and human-likeness, the increasing dichotomy between its technological and social facets has given rise to tangible evidence of surveillance, inequality and discrimination. This evidence emphasises a pressing need for systems more aligned with human …
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Marketing at the Human-Technology Frontier: Essays on AI Acceptance, Digital Twins, and Brain-Computer Interfaces
… interfaces (BCIs), the boundary between human thought and machine intelligence is becoming more fluid than ever. As these technologies advance, they are quietly reshaping how people think, decide, shop, and interact. Marketing, which has always sought to understand people as consumers, …
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The effect of artificial newscasters on cognitive and emotional responses to televised news
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2023-04-12 without embargo terms