peer reviewed · Journal of the Association for Information Systems
Have We Crossed the Uncanny Valley? Understanding Affinity, Trustworthiness, and Preference for Realistic Digital Humans in Immersive Environments
In plain English
Argues the valley has narrowed and that higher realism now helps rather than hurts. The empirical case for photoreal avatars.
uncanny valley
digital humans
trust
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