An Empirical Study on the Effects of Category and Role of Robot and Human Factors on the Shape of Uncanny Valley 


Vol. 44,  No. 3, pp. 540-553, Mar.  2019
10.7840/kics.2019.44.3.540


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  Abstract

With the evolution of hardware and artificial intelligence, there is growing interest in the development of robots that can interact naturally with humans. In particular, humanoid or pet type robots can increase the likeness of humans or animals and hence acceptance intention. However, incomplete imitation due to the uncanny valley phenomenon is a factor to reduce affinity. Several studies have been made on factors that cause Uncanny Valley. However, there are few studies on whether there are uncanny valleys in pet type robots, whether the type of uncanny valley is changed according to the role of robots, and whether there is a difference in affinity depending on characteristics of users who treat robots. Therefore, the goal of this paper is to confirm whether the category and role of human or pet type robot, and the characteristics of user affects the shape of Uncanny Valley through empirical analysis. Experimental results show that unmanned valley is still found in humanoids, but not in pet type. In addition, we found that the uncanny valley was formed in the functional robot type.

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[IEEE Style]

Y. Jin and O. Kwon, "An Empirical Study on the Effects of Category and Role of Robot and Human Factors on the Shape of Uncanny Valley," The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences, vol. 44, no. 3, pp. 540-553, 2019. DOI: 10.7840/kics.2019.44.3.540.

[ACM Style]

Yoonsun Jin and Ohbyung Kwon. 2019. An Empirical Study on the Effects of Category and Role of Robot and Human Factors on the Shape of Uncanny Valley. The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences, 44, 3, (2019), 540-553. DOI: 10.7840/kics.2019.44.3.540.

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Yoonsun Jin and Ohbyung Kwon, "An Empirical Study on the Effects of Category and Role of Robot and Human Factors on the Shape of Uncanny Valley," The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences, vol. 44, no. 3, pp. 540-553, 3. 2019. (https://doi.org/10.7840/kics.2019.44.3.540)

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