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==Android Science==

Android science is a new interdisciplinary framework for studying human interaction and cognition based on the premise that a very humanlike [[robot]] (that is, an [[android]]) can elicit human-directed social responses in human beings. The android's ability to elicit human-directed social responses enables researchers to employ an android in experiments with human participants as an apparatus that can be more precisely controlled than a human actor.

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Some researchers broadly construe android science to include all the effects of engineered human likeness, such as the impact of humanlike robots on society or the study of the relationship between [[anthropomorphism]] and human perception. The latter relates to an observation made by [[Masahiro Mori]] that human beings are more sensitive to deviations from humanlike behavior or appearance in near-human forms. Mori refers to this phenomenon as the [[uncanny valley]]. In android science this heightened sensitivity is seen as a diagnostic tool for enhancing the human likeness of an android.

===Android Science Conferences, Workshops, and Symposia===

[http://www.jcss.gr.jp/meetings/ICCS2006/ICCS2006.html Toward Social Mechanisms of Android Science] long symposium at

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[http://www.androidscience.com/ Toward Social Mechanisms of Android Science] workshop at the [http://www.psych.unito.it/csc/cogsci05/ 27th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society,] July 25 and 26, 2005 at Regina Palace Hotel, Stressa, Italy.

===External links===

MacDorman, K.F. & Ishiguro, H. (2006). [http://www.macdorman.com/kfm/writings/pubs/MacDorman2006AndroidScience.pdf The uncanny advantage of using androids in social and cognitive science research]. ''Interaction Studies, 7''(3).