Alexander Diel
Biographic Data
| ID | 6258830 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alexander Diel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alexander |
| FAMILY NAME | Diel |
| SIGNATURE | DIEL A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Duisburg-Essen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4362-8856 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The harm of deepfakes
Deepfakes is a term for content generated by an artificial intelligence (AI) with the intention to be perceived as real. Deepfakes have gained notoriety in their potential misuse in disinformation, propaganda, pornography, defamation, or financial fraud. Despite prominent discussions on the potential harms of deepfakes, empirical evidence on the harms of deepfakes on the human mind remains sparse, wide, and unstructured. This scoping review prese…
Eerie edibles
This study investigates whether imperfect AI-generated food images evoke an uncanny valley effect, making them appear uncannier than either unrealistic or realistic food images. It further explores whether this effect is a nonlinear function of realism. Underlying mechanisms are examined, including food disgust and food neophobia. The study also compares reactions to moldy and rotten food with reactions to AI-generated food. Individual difference…
Rethinking the uncanny valley as a moderated linear function
The relationship between artificial entities’ human likeness and aesthetic preference is thought to be best modelled by an N-shaped cubic “uncanny valley” function, which however suffers from conceptual criticisms and lack of parsimony. Here it is argued that uncanniness effects may instead be modelled by a linear function of deviation moderated by perceptual specialization. The two models are compared in an experiment with five incrementally dis…
How an Android Expresses “Now Loading…”
The “thinking face” is a facial signal used to convey being in thought. For androids, the thinking face may be important to achieve natural human–robot interaction. However, the facial pattern necessary for portraying the thinking face remains unclear and has not yet been investigated in androids. The current study aims to (a) identify the facial patterns when people are engaged in answering complex questions (i.e., thinking face) and (b) clarify…
A Meta-analysis of the Uncanny Valley's Independent and Dependent Variables
The uncanny valley (UV) effect is a negative affective reaction to human-looking artificial entities. It hinders comfortable, trust-based interactions with android robots and virtual characters. Despite extensive research, a consensus has not formed on its theoretical basis or methodologies. We conducted a meta-analysis to assess operationalizations of human likeness (independent variable) and the UV effect (dependent variable). Of 468 studies, 7…
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A Meta-analysis of the Uncanny Valley's Independent and Dependent Variables
The uncanny valley (UV) effect is a negative affective reaction to human-looking artificial entities. It hinders comfortable, trust-based interactions with android robots and virtual characters. Despite extensive research, a consensus has not formed on its theoretical basis or methodologies. We conducted a meta-analysis to assess operationalizations of human likeness (independent variable) and the UV effect (dependent variable). Of 468 studies, 7…
Rethinking the uncanny valley as a moderated linear function
The relationship between artificial entities’ human likeness and aesthetic preference is thought to be best modelled by an N-shaped cubic “uncanny valley” function, which however suffers from conceptual criticisms and lack of parsimony. Here it is argued that uncanniness effects may instead be modelled by a linear function of deviation moderated by perceptual specialization. The two models are compared in an experiment with five incrementally dis…
How an Android Expresses “Now Loading…”
The “thinking face” is a facial signal used to convey being in thought. For androids, the thinking face may be important to achieve natural human–robot interaction. However, the facial pattern necessary for portraying the thinking face remains unclear and has not yet been investigated in androids. The current study aims to (a) identify the facial patterns when people are engaged in answering complex questions (i.e., thinking face) and (b) clarify…
The harm of deepfakes
Deepfakes is a term for content generated by an artificial intelligence (AI) with the intention to be perceived as real. Deepfakes have gained notoriety in their potential misuse in disinformation, propaganda, pornography, defamation, or financial fraud. Despite prominent discussions on the potential harms of deepfakes, empirical evidence on the harms of deepfakes on the human mind remains sparse, wide, and unstructured. This scoping review prese…
Eerie edibles
This study investigates whether imperfect AI-generated food images evoke an uncanny valley effect, making them appear uncannier than either unrealistic or realistic food images. It further explores whether this effect is a nonlinear function of realism. Underlying mechanisms are examined, including food disgust and food neophobia. The study also compares reactions to moldy and rotten food with reactions to AI-generated food. Individual difference…
Psychology (4 works) · Uncanny valley (4 works) · Cognitive psychology (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Face Recognition and Perception (3 works) · Perception (3 works) · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (3 works) · Artificial Intelligence (2 works) · Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (2 works) · Robot (2 works)