What Is Uncanny Valley?

Tim burton mostly uses close up when he wants to capture a character’s facial expressions. For example, in Edward Scissorhands when he first met Pag and she was feeling on his face then she starts to put product on his face so his scars will start to go away. I used this scene for an example because she’s used a lot of facial expressions to show him that she can help him and she felt bad because he was all in a huge castle

Fear, a very intense emotion. It can be something you see as a threat or potential danger to you, caused by the subconscious mind. Some people fear clowns, spiders, heights. Others may be irrational things numbers, long words, or being alone. But what about the fear of other humans?

The ability to feel and express empathy is a characteristic that has always distinguished robots from humans. No matter how similar a robot appears to a human, they can not produce genuine human emotions in any given social setting. Philip K. Dick’s novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? as well as the movie inspired by the book, Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner, explores the human-like nature of rogue Nexus-6 androids and the way they attempt to assimilate into society as well as their abilities that distinguish them from humans. Although the prime method of distinguishing androids from humans is detecting their lack of empathy, both the novel and film demonstrate that androids possess an equal, sometimes greater, ability to feel than

Lastly, considering the fact that Jane is not able to imitate motor movements, and based on the results of the risk benefit analysis, implementing another alternative communication system such as PECS will be beneficial. It appears that PECS is an easy procedure, simple to be interpreted by individuals, and requires less clinical skills than other procedures. Also, this procedure could eventually develop speech as it requires interaction in communication within its first phases.

The filmmaker of To Kill a Mockingbird uses specifically camera angles to help develop the characters Harper Lee created in her novel. When filmmakers use close up shots on anyone's face especially with creepy music in the background people instantly tend to feel scared or creeped out. Jem and Scout felt that way when Nathan Radley suddenly came around the tree trunk to patch up the hole where the kids had been gathering little gifts Boo Radley left for them to find. The director had decided to do a close up on Nathan's face during this scene in the film to capture how the children felt at that moment. A more effective way to make people who are watching the film to feel the way the kids did is if during the close up of Nathan's face is if

(continued from box above) Mimicry is when one species has evolved to resemble another organism. Müllerian mimicry is when two or more distasteful species may benefit from a shared warning coloration pattern, such as the monarch and viceroy butterflies who both share the orange and black patterns. Batesian mimicry is when harmless organisms can gain a selective advantage by resembling poisonous species, such as coral snake and a scarlet king snake. Many prey can also deter predators by startle coloration, which means that prey have spots which can resemble large eyes. Aggressive mimicry is when a predator can seem harmless to lure prey within a striking distance. One example of this is the frogfish which uses a dangling lure to attract fish,

According to Merriam Webster’s online dictionary, Anthropomorphism is define as “an interpretation of what is not human or personal in terms of human or personal characteristics.” When one goes to the zoo and looks at the animals displayed, no one really thinks much of it besides them being

“Anything with a highly human-like appearance can be subject to the uncanny valley effect, but the most common examples are androids, computer game characters, and life-like dolls”(Lay, Stephanie). In modern society the ongoing growth of artificial intelligence has skyrocketed like never before in history. While science continues to advance in greatness, media in form of film and television, has taken the thought of science to monstrous heights. Wether science try to replicate art or vice-versa is debatable. Irrational fears of inanimate objects could be perpetuated by media or can it be an underlying fear that dates further back. A significant amount of scientist have explored the thought of concluding wether uncanny valley exists at all. “Raised eyebrows and wrinkled foreheads are easy to spot and interpret, but the human ability to perceive nonverbal emotional is much more finely tuned […] the latest animation tools could not capture or replay the slight and subtle details […] and many other emotions” (Eberle Scott G.). Humans are afraid or phobic of robots and dolls arriving from inability to predict emotional response or intention. The furthering of technology enables the mechanic ingenuity, creating close to life artificial intelligence. The resemblance of human-like androids pushes the envelope. However, programming androids to experience and understand human emotion raises the questions for many of, what makes us human? Dolls, throughout history dolls have had a place in every home. The phobia of dolls still remains. Unlike androids, dolls which do not resemble human-likeness does not affect the fear they project. Studies have concluded childhood phobias are generated by three pathways; direct conditioning, vicarious conditioning, and information. Scientist and psychologist have also hypothesized in some children fears and phobias have always been

Arachnophobia—this is irrational fear is one of the most common in the world. Indeed, this phobia can plague the minds and psyche of just about anyone, regardless of race, gender, or age. In fact, arachnophobia is one of the most copious of the specific phobias and it afflicts people across regardless of their geographical and cultural boundaries, (Graham C.L. Davery 2014). People who suffer from this phobia tend to feel uneasy in any area they believe could harbor spiders or that has visible signs of their presence, such as webs. If an arachnophobic sees a spider they may not enter the general vicinity until they have overcome the panic attack that is often associated with their phobia (Princeton 2014). Additionally, it is estimated that as

For instance, Mackenzie, Wood-Mitchell and James (2007) reported a patient of theirs quickly became apprehensive when she was presented with a doll, for unknown, unpredicted reasons. To eliminate this, researchers set up guidelines in which the doll must meet: must be soft, must have eyes that open and close, and also they advise that the dolls do not make any noise. Other important factors before introducing dolls to patients includes the choice of skin color, gender, and clothing of the doll. (Mackenzie, Wood-Mitchell and James

Such as when we watched the freak show video, these were ordinary people with abnormal features gave normal citizens excitement. They got this feeling because the fact that these ‘ Freaks “ were very similar to them, and according to Brady Ball Blake & L.Andrew Cooper people find most discomfort with monster that are very close in resemblance to them. Such as the robot example the more it became human like the more people became fearful of them because they hate the fact that a monster or a freak can look just like

There has been some research done on the fear of heights. Psychologists by the name of Gibson and Walk did an experiment in 1960 called “Visual Cliff”. The “Visual Cliff” experiment was an experiment to see if babies who were still crawling would cross a thick piece of glass that covered a steep drop off. They then put the mother on the other side of the drop off to call the baby over to the other side. Even with the mother calling the crawling babies to come to them, the babies still did not cross over the glass. This experiment shows that most humans if not all humans have acrophobia at least partially ingrained in our genetics. I believe this is part of our survival instincts.

In, the three stories that we have explored this semester, Passing, A Raisin in the Sun, and Mama Day all have the same theme of how identity is based off of the appearance of someone, and how that appearance reflects how they will behave. So the behavior of someone is based off the outward appearance of someone. This is shown by the fluidity of Clare and her ability to assimilate into different culture easily, in Passing, the various examples of the various the conflicts between Cocoa and George in, Mama Day, and the how the characters in Mama Day, present themselves.

4. Discuss how visual artists and/or filmmakers interpret psychoanalytic theories such as the monstrous-feminine or the uncanny within their practices. Discuss these contexts in relation to three artists, and to your art making process. Please choose at least 3 artworks.

physicians treat this hallucination based on their knowledge of epilepsy, the treatment is unsuccessful since the cause of this symptom is usually loss of smell.