Eeriness is not quite the same thing as comfort level, likeability or even strangeness.

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But the same qualities that alienated children now attract adults, who find something compelling in the doll's eeriness.

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Dolly Lakkis, who owns an eyeglass store on Bolyston Street, said that returning to work brought an eeriness accompanied by sadness.

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Scales that turned out to measure the same qualities with different words were eliminated and the researchers eventually lighted on 19 that described aspects of four underlying qualities that they dub attractiveness, eeriness, humanness and warmth.

ECONOMIST: Animation and robotics

By plotting perceived humanness along the horizontal axis and eeriness along the vertical, Dr MacDorman says that he can recreate Dr Mori's chart of the uncanny valley, this time using real data about how people feel about a particular robot or animation.

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These are humanness and eeriness.

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