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I've been working away for some time now, planning my next study and I'm now ready to ask for your help... I have a gallery of 60 faces and I need people to rate them for human likeness, strangeness and eeriness.

Would you be willing to help me with this?

If so, just follow this link: http://bit.ly/FaceExperimentI can't promise it'll be the ( Read more... )

After several months of work, I'm pleased to announce that my second PhD study is now live!

Would you like to contribute to knowledge about the uncanny valley? Then please come and take this short and interesting online experiment. (Well, I know it's short, and I hope you find it interesting.)

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Remember back in 2005 I had a little website where several of you took part in my experiment for my MSc? That went so well that I wanted to use the same method for collecting data for my PhD. My super-wonderful husband jefurry created the original site, and I've thrown myself on his mercy again ( Read more... )

Thank you to the 238 people who came to take part in my experiment into face perception - I've now closed down the experiment and I'm working on analysing the data ( Read more... )

Many thanks to Michael over at Thinkblog for the interest, and hopefully, hello to some of his readers!

I've decided to leave the experiment live for a little longer: it will now close on Friday, January 20th 2006 so if you haven't already, please do take a few moments to participate. The experiment can be found here.

Well, since going live with the experiment on Sunday, I'm very pleased to find I've got over 170 responses - given that I was only expecting to get 50 or so, this is quite wonderful ( Read more... )

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