Background The uncanny valley hypothesis states that users may experience discomfort when inter-acting with almost human-like artificial characters.Advancements in artificial intelligence,robotics,and computer graphic...Background The uncanny valley hypothesis states that users may experience discomfort when inter-acting with almost human-like artificial characters.Advancements in artificial intelligence,robotics,and computer graphics have led to the development of life-like virtual humans and humanoid robots.Revisiting this hypothesis is necessary to check whether they positively or negatively affect the current population,who are highly accustomed to the latest technologies.Methods In this study,we present a unique evaluation of the uncanny valley hypothesis by allowing participants to interact live with four humanoid robots that have varying levels of human-likeness.Each participant completed a survey questionnaire to evaluate the affinity of each robot.Additionally,we used deep learning methods to quantify the participants’emotional states using multimodal cues,including visual,audio,and text cues,by recording the participant-robot interactions.Results Multi-modal analysis and surveys provided interesting results and insights into the uncanny valley hypothesis.展开更多
Being categorized into New Gothic sets, Maxine Hong Kinston's The Woman Warrior has lots to do with the strange setting. While the concept of"The uncanny"is characterized by both strangeness and doublene...Being categorized into New Gothic sets, Maxine Hong Kinston's The Woman Warrior has lots to do with the strange setting. While the concept of"The uncanny"is characterized by both strangeness and doubleness, to comprehend the uncanniness of The Woman Warrior more deeply, it is necessary to perceive the pervasively entailed doubleness in the story. Through analyzing the recurring images of ghost and silence, which stand for the source of the strangeness, we try to perceive the doubleness in the text from the perspective of the author's Chinese-American identity. We conclude that Kinston fabricates the multilayered uncanniness in the story through the entangled multi-doublness and constructed identity struggle.展开更多
Edgar Allan Poe was an American poet, short fiction writer and critic. He was also a master of the horror tale, and the pa-tron saint of the detective story. Based on the perspective of Freud's"uncanny"t...Edgar Allan Poe was an American poet, short fiction writer and critic. He was also a master of the horror tale, and the pa-tron saint of the detective story. Based on the perspective of Freud's"uncanny"theory,this paper analyzes the creation of the effectof terror and explores the theme of The Black Cat.展开更多
Edgar Allan Poe’s short story “The Man of the Crowd” delineates metropolitan visual experiences that relate to urban scenery and people. The anonymous first-person narrator, preoccupied with the social and psycholo...Edgar Allan Poe’s short story “The Man of the Crowd” delineates metropolitan visual experiences that relate to urban scenery and people. The anonymous first-person narrator, preoccupied with the social and psychological correlations between the city and wandering crowd, interprets his perception of the crowd as an inexhaustible spectacle. As the narrator experiences different phases of spectatorship, he ultimately realizes the inscrutability and impenetrability of the city through his observation of the old man of the crowd. This paper suggests that the narrator’s failure in seeing and reading the old man of the crowd renders an uncanny effect of urban spectatorship.展开更多
基金Supported by the National Research Foundation,Singapore under its International Research Centers in Singapore Funding InitiativeInstitute for Media Innovation,Nanyang Technological University(IMI-NTU)。
文摘Background The uncanny valley hypothesis states that users may experience discomfort when inter-acting with almost human-like artificial characters.Advancements in artificial intelligence,robotics,and computer graphics have led to the development of life-like virtual humans and humanoid robots.Revisiting this hypothesis is necessary to check whether they positively or negatively affect the current population,who are highly accustomed to the latest technologies.Methods In this study,we present a unique evaluation of the uncanny valley hypothesis by allowing participants to interact live with four humanoid robots that have varying levels of human-likeness.Each participant completed a survey questionnaire to evaluate the affinity of each robot.Additionally,we used deep learning methods to quantify the participants’emotional states using multimodal cues,including visual,audio,and text cues,by recording the participant-robot interactions.Results Multi-modal analysis and surveys provided interesting results and insights into the uncanny valley hypothesis.
文摘Being categorized into New Gothic sets, Maxine Hong Kinston's The Woman Warrior has lots to do with the strange setting. While the concept of"The uncanny"is characterized by both strangeness and doubleness, to comprehend the uncanniness of The Woman Warrior more deeply, it is necessary to perceive the pervasively entailed doubleness in the story. Through analyzing the recurring images of ghost and silence, which stand for the source of the strangeness, we try to perceive the doubleness in the text from the perspective of the author's Chinese-American identity. We conclude that Kinston fabricates the multilayered uncanniness in the story through the entangled multi-doublness and constructed identity struggle.
文摘Edgar Allan Poe was an American poet, short fiction writer and critic. He was also a master of the horror tale, and the pa-tron saint of the detective story. Based on the perspective of Freud's"uncanny"theory,this paper analyzes the creation of the effectof terror and explores the theme of The Black Cat.
文摘Edgar Allan Poe’s short story “The Man of the Crowd” delineates metropolitan visual experiences that relate to urban scenery and people. The anonymous first-person narrator, preoccupied with the social and psychological correlations between the city and wandering crowd, interprets his perception of the crowd as an inexhaustible spectacle. As the narrator experiences different phases of spectatorship, he ultimately realizes the inscrutability and impenetrability of the city through his observation of the old man of the crowd. This paper suggests that the narrator’s failure in seeing and reading the old man of the crowd renders an uncanny effect of urban spectatorship.
