词源

仿譯自日語 (ぶきみのたに, bukimi no tani)，源自中古漢語 (pjuw) + (kì-mjɨ̀j, “感觉，感受”) + 日語 (no, 名词修饰助词) + (たに, tani, “峡谷”)。首次是由机器人专家森政弘于1970年使用。

名词

1. (美学，心理學) 恐怖谷
   • 1970, , “The Uncanny Valley”, 出自 Energy, 卷 7, 號 4，頁號s 33–35:

     So in this case, the appearance is quite human like, but the familiarity is negative. This is the uncanny valley.

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   • 2006, Sebastiano Bagnara, Gillian Crampton Smith, Theories and Practice in Interaction Design:

     However, when the robot is so similar that it may be momentarily mistaken for real, the transition has a local minimum characterized by a sudden decrease of familiarity, the "uncanny valley"—a dip of frustration due to unmet expectations.

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   • 2007, , Control + Alt + Delete: A Dictionary of Cyberslang:

     Almost human in appearance, yet not quite, the characters in 3-D computer animations are more disturbing than overt caricatures. The realm these creatures occupy is called the uncanny valley […] 。

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   • 2015, Kathleen Richardson, An Anthropology of Robots and AI‎, Routledge, →ISBN:

     More unusual is perhaps the appropriation of a psychoanalytical theory to robotics–which is, in effect, what the uncanny valley aims to do. Mori's own descriptions of the uncanny follow a similar pattern to Freud's, where he indicates the kinds of events, states, processes or objects that might provoke the uncanny valley, particularly the theme of the dead.

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延伸阅读

• 在英語維基百科上的資料。維基百科 ^en