The Tipping Point of Animacy: How, When, and Where We Perceive Life in a Face (2 of 2)

The face of a doll is clearly not human; the face of a human clearly is. Telling the difference allows us to pay attention to faces that belong to living things, which are capable of interacting with us. But where is the line at which a face appears to be alive? A new study published in Psychological Science finds that a face has to be quite similar to a human face in order to appear alive, and that the cues are mainly in the eyes.
http://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/news/releases/what-makes-a-face...
http://pss.sagepub.com/content/21/12/1854.abstract

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Psychology;
• Face;
• Perception;
• Animation;
• Video
• Game;
• Gaming

[heermarcel]

Nice work.

[5treefrogs]

I think it relates to uncanned spam

[van00halen]

I think this relates to the theory of uncannyability

[kirkieball]

@elmismo1966 I think it relates to the Uncanny X-men

[elmismo1966]

I think this relates to the Uncanny Valley hypothesis.