1 The seminal work on the uncanny valley is “Bukimi No Tani [The Uncanny Valley]” by Masahiro Mori, Energy, 1970, vol. 7(4), p. 33–35.

2 See, for example, “Too Real for Comfort? Uncanny Responses to Computer Generated Faces” by Karl MacDorman, Robert Greena, Chin-Chang Hoa, et al., Computers in Human Behavior, May 2009, vol. 25(3), p. 695–710; and “The Uncanny Valley: Effect of Realism on the Impression of Artificial Human Faces” by Jun’ichiro Seyama and Ruth Nagayama, Presence, Aug. 2007, vol. 16(4), p. 337–351.

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