[visionlist] workshop on Views of the Uncanny Valley

[Frank Pollick]

Hi,

As part of the 2005 IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid 
Robots this December 5-7 in Tsukuba, Japan there will be a workshop 
organised by Christian Keysers, Karl MacDorman and Frank Pollick that 
brings together researchers in neuroscience, perception, cognition and 
robotics to examine the phenomenon known as the uncanny valley.

A list of the speakers and brief abstracts can be found at:

http://www.theuncannyvalley.org/

and details of the parent conference at:

http://www.humanoidrobots.org/humanoids2005/

The term "uncanny valley" or "bukimi no tani" in Japanese was coined 35 
years ago by Dr. Masahiro Mori, and it stands  today as one of the most 
commonly known design considerations  of humanoid robots and synthetic 
characters. It states that as a robot or synthetic character approaches 
that of a human there will be a dramatic decrease in its acceptability 
to observers.  The goal of the workshop will be to examine how the  
perception of human and robot motions are transformed into an 
appreciation of the events being observed.  In addition,  we will try 
to direct our findings to a discussion of potential  theoretical bases 
of human-humanoid interaction and to obtaining  a method for accurate 
navigation around the uncanny valley.

Best

Frank
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