Are virtual humans uncanny? : varying speech, appearance and motion to better understand the acceptability of synthetic humans

Takaaki Kuratate; Kathryn Ayers; Jeesun Kim; Marcia Riley; Denis Burnham

Are virtual humans uncanny? : varying speech, appearance and motion to better understand the acceptability of synthetic humans

Takaaki Kuratate, Kathryn Ayers, Jeesun Kim, Marcia Riley, Denis Burnham

MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour & Development

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Abstract

In this experiment we examine the uncanny valley effect as a guide, albeit incomplete, to designing engaging humanlike interfaces. In this effect falling just short of perfection in creating synthetic humans elicits a pronounced negative reaction and here this is explored with talking head animations focusing on naturalness in speech, appearance and face motion. We implemented a set of techniques to manipulate naturalness for each of these aspects, and present the results of our study evaluating these stimuli. Outcomes of this method provide insights for the choice of the degree of realism or naturalness required for various talking heads.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Audio-Visual Speech Processing (AVSP 2009), Norwich, UK, 10-13 September 2009
Publisher	University of East Anglia
Pages	65-69
Number of pages	5
ISBN (Print)	9780956345202
Publication status	Published - 2009
Event	International Conference on Audio-Visual Speech Processing - Duration: 1 Jan 2011 → …

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Kuratate, T, Ayers, K, Kim, J, Riley, M & Burnham, D 2009, Are virtual humans uncanny? : varying speech, appearance and motion to better understand the acceptability of synthetic humans. in Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Audio-Visual Speech Processing (AVSP 2009), Norwich, UK, 10-13 September 2009. University of East Anglia, pp. 65-69, International Conference on Audio-Visual Speech Processing, 1/01/11.

Are virtual humans uncanny? : varying speech, appearance and motion to better understand the acceptability of synthetic humans. / Kuratate, Takaaki; Ayers, Kathryn; Kim, Jeesun et al.
Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Audio-Visual Speech Processing (AVSP 2009), Norwich, UK, 10-13 September 2009. University of East Anglia, 2009. p. 65-69.

Research output: Chapter in Book / Conference Paper › Conference Paper › peer-review

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