Uncanny Language
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This project aims to investigate how different degrees of sophistication of a spoken language effect the perceptions of a people engaging in social interaction with machines. |
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The aim of this paper is to investigate the different aspects of speech-based social interaction between a human and a robot. Is it advantageous for a robot to have conversational human-like speech with all its discourse particles and disfluencies when its voice quality is mechanical? Or is the key to balance the mechanical only with some human-like qualities? This follows on work on investigating the balance of function and form given that the robot is fundamentally a machine which is a quality rather than a disadvantage. A robot’s function should dictate its capability set and consequently its role in our society in the future.
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