Sökning: "Uncanny"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 17 avhandlingar innehållade ordet Uncanny.

  1. 1. The Novelty in the Uncanny : Designing Interactions to Change First Impressions

    Författare :Maike Paetzel-Prüsmann; Ginevra Castellano; Christopher Peters; Ingela Nyström; Gabriel Skantze; Astrid Rosenthal-von der Pütten; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Human-Robot Interaction; Uncanny Valley; Social Robotics; Human Perception of Robots; Multimodal Behavior; Computer Science with specialization in Human-Computer Interaction; Datavetenskap med inriktning mot människa-datorinteraktion;

    Sammanfattning : In 1970, Japanese researcher Masahiro Mori published a seminal paper where he hypothesized that robots that appear human-like but are still distinguishable from being human would not attract people towards them, but instead cause an uncanny sensation. This phenomenon, known as the uncanny valley effect, has been widely studied within the social robotics community, and a multitude of experiments have since been conducted supporting Mori's hypothesis. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Biblique des derniers gestes de Patrick Chamoiseau : Fantastique et Histoire

    Författare :Liviu Lutas; Björn Larsson; Anne Douaire; Franska; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; métalepse; metalepsis; postcolonialism; magical realism; the fantastic; Chamoiseau; History; Historiography; fiction; uncanny; Franska med litteraturvetenskaplig inriktning; French literature; métalepse; Post-colonialisme; Surnaturel; Réalisme magique; Histoire; Réalisme merveilleux; Fantastique; the uncanny; l inquiétante étrangeté; Chamoiseau;

    Sammanfattning : Patrick Chamoiseau is arguably the most prominent cultural personality from the French island of Martinique. His reputation is due to the worldwide success of his novels, especially Texaco, winner of the Prix Goncourt-award in 1992, but also to the fact that he is the leading theorist of the Créolité, an ideological movement whose aim is to preserve the character of Creole identity and culture against the threat of assimilation. LÄS MER

  4. 3. The Horror-Storied Prison : A Narrative Study of Prison as an Abject and Uncanny Institution

    Författare :Tea Fredriksson; Magnus Hörnqvist; Ingrid Lander; Michael Fiddler; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Abject; Uncanny; Haunting; Monstrous-feminine; Prison Studies; Narrative Criminology; kriminologi; Criminology;

    Sammanfattning : In terms of time as well as in terms of depth, prison is a storied institution. Many-layered tales have been told about it since its inception. A prominent theme of these stories is how they configure belonging and otherness through horror-iconography. LÄS MER

  5. 4. The Gothic in contemporary interactive fictions

    Författare :Van Leavenworth; Heidi Hansson; Catherine Spooner; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Gothic; interactive fiction; subjectivity; posthuman; unspeakable; live burial; labyrinth; uncanny; grotesque; vampire; historiographic metafiction; cybergothic; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap; Literature; litteraturvetenskap;

    Sammanfattning : This study examines how themes, conventions and concepts in Gothic discourses are remediated or developed in selected works of contemporary interactive fiction. These works, which are wholly text-based and proceed via command line input from a player, include Nevermore, by Nate Cull (2000), Anchorhead, by Michael S. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Den ensamma sjöjungfrun : Om Carina Rydbergs jagberättande ur ett genreperspektiv

    Författare :Tamara Andersson; Maria Jönsson; Elisabeth Hästbacka; Annelie Bränström Öhman; Anna Forssberg; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Carina Rydberg; autofiction; autobiography; identity narrative; the Gothic; female Gothic; genre; Swedish literature; identity; gender; sex; femininity; monstrosity; female authors; transgression; the uncanny; intelligibility; Carina Rydberg; autofiktion; självbiografi; jagberättande; gotik; genre; svensk litteratur; identitet; genus; kön; femininitet; monster; kvinnliga författare; författarroll; transgression; det kusliga; das Unheimliche; begriplighet; Literature; litteraturvetenskap; gender studies; genusvetenskap;

    Sammanfattning : The focus of this study is the two autobiographical novels Den högsta kasten (1997) and Djävulsformeln (2000) by Swedish author Carina Rydberg. Both novels generated lively public debate regarding how they ought to be read and understood, what genre they belonged to, and the ontological status of the narrating “I”. LÄS MER