Blog for IFDM210 at the University of New Mexico

Class syllabus can be found here.

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

The Uncanny Valley

"The uncanny valley is a hypothesis that when robots and other facsimiles of humans look and act almost like actual humans, it causes a response of revulsion among human observers. The "valley" in question is a dip in a proposed graph of the positivity of human reaction as a function of a robot's lifelikeness."

This post is in reference to a comment in class about the "corpse effect". Here is a clip demonstrating how to achieve the corpse effect using photoshop:

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