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Showing 1 to 20 of 97 for “"The uncanny"”.
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The Uncanny Valley Effect
The Uncanny Valley Effect (UVE) first emerged as a warning against 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 …
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The 'Uncanny' and The Android
The character of the android is found widely in film and literature. While she appears across the entire spectrum of genres, she most often makes her appearance in the uncanny text. This appearance is nearly always accompanied by some variation of the vision motif. Despite wide spread interest in …
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Exploring Fear and Freud's The Uncanny
Fear is one of the oldest and most basic of human emotions. In this thesis, I will explore the topic of fear in relation to literature, both a staple of the horror genre as well as a device in literary works, as well as in my own writings. In addition, I will use Sigmund Freud's theory of the …
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The Uncanny Other: Edgar Allan Poe’s America
The Uncanny Other: Edgar Allan Poe’s America undertakes revisionist readings of Poe’s canonical and lesser-known texts with reference to standard psychoanalytic works on the (mainly Freudian) unheimlich, to re-examine them in transatlantic- and reception-studies frameworks. The thesis argues that …
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Projecting the uncanny : the intersection of visuality and architecture
This thesis explores architectural drawings and representations appropriate to describe forms and spaces in zero and artificial gravity. Its focus is on the physical forces associated with life and motion in a rotating environment and the formal and geometric architectural response to those forces. …
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Towards the Uncanny Object: Creating Interactive Craft with Smart Materials
The increasing prevalence of digital fabrication technologies and the emergence of a novel materiality in contemporary craft practice have created the need to redefine the critical context of digital jewellery and wearable futures. Previous research in this area, such as that presented by Sarah …
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An Investigation into the uncanny: character design, behaviour and context.
Whilst there has been a substantial amount of research into the uncanny valley, defining research that contextualises a character as they would normally be viewed remains an unexplored area. Often previous research focused solely on realistic render styles giving characters an unfair basis that …
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Noise, artifact and the uncanny in large scale digital photographic practice.
This dissertation explores the question: why, when encountering the products of many new technologies delivering information via a new media, do I often experience a feeling of disquiet or estrangement? I use the example of laser-photographic printing to explore the issue through a program of …
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Beyond reason: revising the place of literature in theories of the uncanny
The psychoanalytic fixation in seeking to validate 'the real' has long overlooked various key components in theories of the uncanny as they relate to literature. The goal of the present study is to reaffirm the roles of uncertainty, ambiguity, and the purposeful lack of closure in the experience of …
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Life in the Uncanny Valley: Workplace Issues for Knowledge Workers on the Autism Spectrum
… autism spectrum disorders have been published. The definition of “high-functioning autism” used in these papers may need to be reconsidered, as a segment of the population may be more skilled than has been historically thought. A percentage of people on the autism spectrum work in a high-paying …
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On development and perception of theomorphic robots: the uncanny valley effect to Artificial Intelligence (AI)
This thesis presents the development and evaluation of a theomorphic robot, the Korean Pensive Buddha Robot, a life-sized, articulated robotic statue modelled after the Korean National Treasure No. 83, the Pensive Bodhisattva. The project integrates three-dimensional (3D) printing, servomotor …
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Reading "The uncanny X-Men" : gender, race, and the mutant metaphor in a popular narrative
The first superhero comic book was published in 1938 and since that time the genre has become a staple of American popular culture. While superhero stories have been adapted into every popular storytelling medium, the genre is most closely associated with the comic book industry. This dissertation …
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The Uncanny Valley: An Empirical Study on Human Perceptions of AI-Generated Text and Images
This thesis explores how the uncanny valley phenomenon—historically tied to near-human robots—applies to text-based AI interactions and AI-generated images. While the concept has been predominantly studied in the context of robotics, the advent of generative AI reveals that text and visuals that …
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The persuasiveness of humanlike computer interfaces varies more through narrative characterization than through the uncanny valley
… in human communication, it may also bias the processing of information from avatars, computer-animated characters, and other computer interfaces with faces. Although the most persuasive of these interfaces are often the most humanlike, they incur the greatest risk of falling into the …
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The Alchemist of the Surreal and the Uncanny Valley: Jan Švankmajer, the puppet and eerie animation
… Švankmajer, a militant Surrealist and member of the Czech Surrealist group, whose work is influenced by the Czechoslovakian culture and tradition, employs the notion of the uncanny in his films in mixing and contrasting ways and animating the inanimate is a central element. Freud’s The Uncanny, …
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Depictions of space and place in contemporary ghost novels: Fostering the uncanny and reflecting social identities and relationships
This thesis explores depictions of space and place in contemporary ghost novels, relating this to two of my own novels, The Toll House (2022) and Hear Him Calling (2024). In particular, I ask the following questions: How can depictions of space and place foster a sense of the uncanny in …
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Between Homes: Examining the notion of the uncanny in art practice and its relationship to post-colonial identity and contemporary society in Taiwan
My research focuses on the notion of 'not being at home' in relation to identity issues, post-colonial society and art practice, focusing in particular on Taiwan. I explore Sigmund Freud's theory of the 'uncanny' (unheimlich) and argue that in contemporary society, experiencing the 'uncanny' is …
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Shakespeare on Zoom, Fandom, and the Uncanny Humor of Imperfections and Plurality: A Comparative Study of The Show Must Go Online and Zoom Shakespeare Productions
<p>This thesis surveys the phenomena of Shakespeare performance on Zoom (‘Shakespeare on Zoom’) that have emerged during the current Covid pandemic in order to illuminate a complex intersection of lockdown culture, fandom, and new media’s techno-social archive, including its affective resonances. …
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The Social Uncanny Valley
The Uncanny Valley effect refers 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 …
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An Uncanny Perspective: Sculptures by Martin Puryear
<p>An Uncanny Perspective: Sculptures by Martin Puryear will demonstrate how Puryear (b.1941) both aesthetically and conceptually evokes narratives found in Sigmund Freud’s (1856-1939) theories of the uncanny, specifically signifiers of darkness, unfamiliarity and secrecy. This employment of the …
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