Exploring the uncanny valley effect in social robotics

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Exploring the uncanny valley effect in social robotics. / Tschöpe, Nico; Reiser, Julian Elias; Oehl, Michael.
HRI '17 Proceedings of the Companion of the 2017 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction. Vol. Part F126657 Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 2017. p. 307-308 (ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction).

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Tschöpe, N, Reiser, JE & Oehl, M 2017, Exploring the uncanny valley effect in social robotics. in HRI '17 Proceedings of the Companion of the 2017 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction. vol. Part F126657, ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, pp. 307-308, ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction 2017, Wien, Austria, 06.03.17. https://doi.org/10.1145/3029798.3038319

APA

Tschöpe, N., Reiser, J. E., & Oehl, M. (2017). Exploring the uncanny valley effect in social robotics. In HRI '17 Proceedings of the Companion of the 2017 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (Vol. Part F126657, pp. 307-308). (ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction). Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. https://doi.org/10.1145/3029798.3038319

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Tschöpe N, Reiser JE, Oehl M. Exploring the uncanny valley effect in social robotics. In HRI '17 Proceedings of the Companion of the 2017 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction. Vol. Part F126657. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. 2017. p. 307-308. (ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction). doi: 10.1145/3029798.3038319

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