Uncanny valley, robot and autism: Perception of the uncanniness in an emotional gait

Matthieu Destephe; Massimiliano Zecca; Kenji Hashimoto; Atsuo Takanishi

doi:10.1109/ROBIO.2014.7090488

Uncanny valley, robot and autism: Perception of the uncanniness in an emotional gait

Matthieu Destephe, Massimiliano Zecca, Kenji Hashimoto, Atsuo Takanishi

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Abstract

While robots are often used in autism therapy, the Uncanny valley effect was never studied in subjects with Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Since persons with ASD have trouble understanding body language, they react differently to the Uncanny valley. In this paper, we propose to investigate the possible difference in the Uncanny valley's perception of an emotional humanoid robot in subjects with ASD and subjects without ASD. Thirty four adult participants (N = 34, control: 19, ASD: 15; age: 28.5) were asked to watch videos of an emotional humanoid robot and rate its emotions and its gait (Perceived Humanness, Eeriness and Attractiveness). We have found differences between the two groups in their perception of the robot's Perceived Humanness (p

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2014 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, IEEE ROBIO 2014
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages	1152-1157
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Print)	9781479973965
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ROBIO.2014.7090488
Publication status	Published - 2014 Apr 20
Event	2014 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, IEEE ROBIO 2014 - Bali, Indonesia Duration: 2014 Dec 5 → 2014 Dec 10

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Other	2014 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, IEEE ROBIO 2014
Country/Territory	Indonesia
City	Bali
Period	14/12/5 → 14/12/10

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Artificial Intelligence
Human-Computer Interaction

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Uncanny valley, robot and autism: Perception of the uncanniness in an emotional gait. / Destephe, Matthieu; Zecca, Massimiliano; Hashimoto, Kenji et al.
2014 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, IEEE ROBIO 2014. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2014. p. 1152-1157 7090488.

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Destephe, M, Zecca, M, Hashimoto, K & Takanishi, A 2014, Uncanny valley, robot and autism: Perception of the uncanniness in an emotional gait. in 2014 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, IEEE ROBIO 2014., 7090488, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., pp. 1152-1157, 2014 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, IEEE ROBIO 2014, Bali, Indonesia, 14/12/5. https://doi.org/10.1109/ROBIO.2014.7090488

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