The Uncanny Valley

The Uncanny Valley, what can I say. I never knew what this was until one of the lectures the other week but it makes perfect sense. The Uncanny valley tells us that when specific things hold human characteristics it causes a response of revulsion by the human observers. The chart below shows how a humans likness towards an object changes as the object becomes more human.

The chart shows that when the human likeness of an object becomes more familiar to us we become more cautious. At the bottom of the chart is a zombie and a prosthetic hand. These are below a corpse because these lifelike objects move, therefore we are more aware of them.

The video below is about six minutes long, but shows how the Uncanny Valley is related to video games and the effects it has on the player. This puts the Uncanny Valley into perspective, a must watch to anyone not sure, well anyone really 

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