Extended Annotated Bibliography

[1] Mori, Masahiro, Karl F. MacDorman, and Norri Kageki. "The uncanny valley [from the field]." Robotics & Automation Magazine, IEEE 19.2 (2012): 98-100.

This article is a translation of the original 1970s article by Masahiro Mori that coined the phrase 'uncanny valley'.  This source is referenced by every other source on here and is the basis of the entire discussion, so I've added it as one of my sources.

[2] Hanson, David, et al. "Upending the uncanny valley." Proceedings of the national conference on artificial intelligence. Vol. 20. No. 4. Menlo Park, CA; Cambridge, MA; London; AAAI Press; MIT Press; 1999, 2005.

This article discusses whether machines that are human-like and 'uncanny' differ from other portrayals of humanity such as paintings and sculptures.  Robotics are just another representation of humanity and don't differ from other representations.

[3] Brenton, Harry, et al. "The uncanny valley: does it exist." Proceedings of conference of human computer interaction, workshop on human animated character interaction. 2005.

This article mentions the lack of research on the topic, and proposes different hypotheses on how the valley could operate.  This plays into the question of how and why the valley exists.

[4] Bartneck, Christoph, et al. "Is the uncanny valley an uncanny cliff?." Robot and Human interactive Communication, 2007. RO-MAN 2007. The 16th IEEE International Symposium on. IEEE, 2007.

This was a study that tried to replicate the results expected from the valley, but found the effect to be more like that of a cliff.  Real humans were always rated less than dolls or depictions.  This also plays into the unsupported theory of the valley.

[5] Seyama, Jun'ichiro, and Ruth S. Nagayama. "The uncanny valley: Effect of realism on the impression of artificial human faces." Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments 16.4 (2007): 337-351.

This article is a study of the uncanny valley that comes to the conclusion that only abnormal features trigger the uncanny valley, and simply being almost lifelike isn't enough of a qualifier.  This helps debunk the idea that the valley simply operates on a scale of how lifelike something is.