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uncanny valley of mind: a standalone construct

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Human-computer interaction

discomfort caused not by humanlike looks but by a digital agent that seems to have humanlike emotions and thoughts.

In human-computer interaction, uncanny valley of mind refers to discomfort caused not by humanlike looks but by a digital agent that seems to have humanlike emotions and thoughts. This meaning comes from Stein (2017) in Cognition.[1]

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Stein, J., & Ohler, P. (2017). Venturing into the uncanny valley of mind: The influence of mind attribution on the acceptance of human-like characters in a virtual reality setting. Cognition, 160, 43-50. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2016.12.010

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