Comments on: Sick robot takes med training to the uncanny valley http://pinktentacle.com/2007/05/sick-robot-takes-med-training-to-the-uncanny-valley/ Sun, 08 Nov 2009 08:01:31 +0900 hourly 1 By: Tech Digest http://pinktentacle.com/2007/05/sick-robot-takes-med-training-to-the-uncanny-valley/#comment-46979 Tech Digest Fri, 18 May 2007 07:02:33 +0000 http://www.pinktentacle.com/2007/05/sick-robot-takes-med-training-to-the-uncanny-valley/#comment-46979 “Sick” robot for medical training has this pain in all the diodes down her left side…

Researchers at Gifu University’s Graduate School of Medicine in Japan have developed a robotic patient that can respond verbally to questions about how it feels and move its body in ways that exhibit the symptoms of its ailment. It looks like a human…

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]]> By: SCI FI Tech http://pinktentacle.com/2007/05/sick-robot-takes-med-training-to-the-uncanny-valley/#comment-46355 SCI FI Tech Wed, 16 May 2007 16:00:32 +0000 http://www.pinktentacle.com/2007/05/sick-robot-takes-med-training-to-the-uncanny-valley/#comment-46355 <strong>Robot gets sick, helps med students...</strong> I freaked out the first time Abe Lincoln broke down in the Hall of Presidents, and it took the better part of the day before the attraction was reopened....... Robot gets sick, helps med students…

I freaked out the first time Abe Lincoln broke down in the Hall of Presidents, and it took the better part of the day before the attraction was reopened…….

]]> By: Stephanie Gray http://pinktentacle.com/2007/05/sick-robot-takes-med-training-to-the-uncanny-valley/#comment-46060 Stephanie Gray Tue, 15 May 2007 19:06:33 +0000 http://www.pinktentacle.com/2007/05/sick-robot-takes-med-training-to-the-uncanny-valley/#comment-46060 That's fascinating - I must ry and track down some video of 'her' in motion but even in the static image above there is certainly something very unsettling in the way that her mouth is distorted and held in that grimace. Presumably a programmed response to indicate pain to whatever illness the doctor is attempting to elicit. One of the theories that I m looking at as part of my research is that there's a link between the UV effect and the disgust/aversion response that hereditary deformities can cause. In this instance, the effect may be boosted by the robot playing sick - so if the UV effect and the aversion are linked, this might either make the UV effect stronger, or if they're separate reactions, it may tip the response out of the 'creepy' UV category and into the more familiar disgust/aversion reaction. Thanks for the post, there's a lot for me to think about here! That’s fascinating – I must ry and track down some video of ‘her’ in motion but even in the static image above there is certainly something very unsettling in the way that her mouth is distorted and held in that grimace. Presumably a programmed response to indicate pain to whatever illness the doctor is attempting to elicit.

One of the theories that I m looking at as part of my research is that there’s a link between the UV effect and the disgust/aversion response that hereditary deformities can cause. In this instance, the effect may be boosted by the robot playing sick – so if the UV effect and the aversion are linked, this might either make the UV effect stronger, or if they’re separate reactions, it may tip the response out of the ‘creepy’ UV category and into the more familiar disgust/aversion reaction.

Thanks for the post, there’s a lot for me to think about here!

]]> By: Oscar http://pinktentacle.com/2007/05/sick-robot-takes-med-training-to-the-uncanny-valley/#comment-45893 Oscar Tue, 15 May 2007 06:25:40 +0000 http://www.pinktentacle.com/2007/05/sick-robot-takes-med-training-to-the-uncanny-valley/#comment-45893 What a wonderful invention. I agree that this robot would be very useful in helping students with their practice. Hopefully, the researchers can make other robots for the purpose of training other students in different fields. What a wonderful invention. I agree that this robot would be very useful in helping students with their practice. Hopefully, the researchers can make other robots for the purpose of training other students in different fields.

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