Sending an Avatar to Do a Human's Job: Compliance with Authority Persists Despite the Uncanny Valley | Zendy

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Sending an Avatar to Do a Human's Job: Compliance with Authority Persists Despite the Uncanny Valley

Author(s) -

Himalaya Patel,

Karl F. MacDorman

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

presence virtual and augmented reality

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.196

H-Index - 90

eISSN - 1531-3263

pISSN - 1054-7460

DOI - 10.1162/pres_a_00212

Subject(s) - uncanny valley , depiction , uncanny , avatar , dilemma , animation , psychology , social psychology , humiliation , affect (linguistics) , sympathy , great rift , empathy , compliance (psychology) , quality (philosophy) , computer science , art , human–computer interaction , visual arts , psychoanalysis , computer graphics (images) , philosophy , physics , communication , epistemology , astronomy , neuroscience , perception

Just as physical appearance affects social influence in human communication, it may also affect the processing of advice conveyed through avatars, computer-animated characters, and other human-like interfaces. Although the most persuasive computer interfaces are often the most human-like, they have been predicted to incur the greatest risk of falling into the uncanny valley, the loss of empathy at...

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