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Journal articles on the topic "Anthropomorphic animals"
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Mota-Rojas, Daniel, Chiara Mariti, Andrea Zdeinert, Giacomo Riggio, Patricia Mora-Medina, Alondra del Mar Reyes, Angelo Gazzano, et al. "Anthropomorphism and Its Adverse Effects on the Distress and Welfare of Companion Animals." Animals 11, no. 11 (November 15, 2021): 3263. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ani11113263.
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Anthropomorphic practices are increasing worldwide. Anthropomorphism is defined as the tendency to attribute human forms, behaviors, and emotions to non-human animals or objects. Anthropomorphism is particularly relevant for companion animals. Some anthropomorphic practices can be beneficial to them, whilst others can be very detrimental. Some anthropomorphic behaviors compromise the welfare and physiology of animals by interfering with thermoregulation, while others can produce dehydration due to the loss of body water, a condition that brings undesirable consequences such as high compensatory blood pressure and heat shock, even death, depending on the intensity and frequency of an animal’s exposure to these stressors. Malnutrition is a factor observed due to consumption of junk food or an imbalance in caloric proportions. This can cause obesity in pets that may have repercussions on their locomotor apparatus. Intense human–animal interaction can also lead to the establishment of attachment that impacts the mental state and behavior of animals, making them prone to develop aggression, fear, or anxiety separation syndrome. Another aspect is applying cosmetics to pets, though scientific studies have not yet determined whether cosmetic products such as coat dyes, nail polish, and lotions are beneficial or harmful for the animals, or to what extent. The cohabitation of animals in people’s homes can also constitute a public health risk due to infectious and zoonotic diseases. In this context, this paper aims to analyze the adverse effects of anthropomorphism on the welfare of companion animals from several angles—physiological, sanitary, and behavioral—based on a discussion of current scientific findings.
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Serpell, James. "Anthropomorphism and Anthropomorphic Selection—Beyond the "Cute Response"." Society & Animals 10, no. 4 (2002): 437–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156853002320936926.
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AbstractThis article explores the origin and evolutionary implications of anthropomorphism in the context of our relationships with animal companions. On the human side, anthropomorphic thinking enables animal companions' social behavior to be construed in human terms, thereby allowing these nonhuman animals to function for their human owners or guardians as providers of nonhuman social support. Absence of social support is known to be detrimental to human health and well being. Therefore, anthropomorphism and its corollary, pet keeping, have obvious biological fitness implications. On the animal side, anthropomorphism constitutes a unique evolutionary selection pressure, analogous to sexual selection, which has molded the appearance, anatomy, and behavior of companion animal species so as to adapt them to their unusual ecological niche as social support providers. Although such species undoubtedly have benefited numerically from the effects of this process, the consequences of anthropomorphism are less benign when viewed from the perspective of individual animals. Indeed, anthropomorphic selection probably is responsible for some of the more severe welfare problems currently found in companion animals.
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Serpell, James. "Anthropomorphism and Anthropomorphic Selection—Beyond the "Cute Response"." Society & Animals 11, no. 1 (2003): 83–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156853003321618864.
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AbstractThis article explores the origin and evolutionary implications of anthropomorphism in the context of our relationships with animal companions. On the human side, anthropomorphic thinking enables animal companions' social behavior to be construed in human terms, thereby allowing these nonhuman animals to function for their human owners or guardians as providers of nonhuman social support. Absence of social support is known to be detrimental to human health and well being. Therefore, anthropomorphism and its corollary, pet keeping, have obvious biological fitness implications. On the animal side, anthropomorphism constitutes a unique evolutionary selection pressure, analogous to sexual selection, which has molded the appearance, anatomy, and behavior of companion animal species so as to adapt them to their unusual ecological niche as social support providers. Although such species undoubtedly have benefited numerically from the effects of this process, the consequences of anthropomorphism are less benign when viewed from the perspective of individual animals. Indeed, anthropomorphic selection probably is responsible for some of the more severe welfare problems currently found in companion animals.
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Choueiki, Ziad, Maggie Geuens, and Iris Vermeir. "Animals Like Us: Leveraging the Negativity Bias in Anthropomorphism to Reduce Beef Consumption." Foods 10, no. 9 (September 10, 2021): 2147. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/foods10092147.
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Our current work contributes to the literature of meat consumption reduction. Capitalizing on the inherent humanizing characteristic of anthropomorphism coupled with leveraging negativity bias, we created a novel approach to reduce meat-eating intention. Using on-pack product stickers, we compare an anthropomorphic message stressing the capacity to experience pain with two other anthropomorphic messages that have been used before in the literature (intelligence and pro-social behavior of animals). We find that an on-pack pain anthropomorphic sticker reduces purchase intentions of the meat product and intention to consume meat in general and is more effective than stickers displaying pro-social or intelligence messages. We also show that the pain message’s negative impact on purchase intention is serially mediated by anticipatory guilt and attitude towards meat. In addition, we show that the differential effectiveness of the anthropomorphic messages can be explained by the negativity bias. That is, when the pro-social and intelligence messages were formulated in a negative way (as is pain), all three messages were equally effective at reducing intention to purchase meat and increase intention to reduce meat consumption.
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Waytz, Adam, John T. Cacioppo, Rene Hurlemann, Fulvia Castelli, Ralph Adolphs, and Lynn K. Paul. "Anthropomorphizing without Social Cues Requires the Basolateral Amygdala." Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 31, no. 4 (April 2019): 482–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_01365.
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Anthropomorphism, the attribution of distinctively human mental characteristics to nonhuman animals and objects, illustrates the human propensity for extending social cognition beyond typical social targets. Yet, its processing components remain challenging to study because they are typically all engaged simultaneously. Across one pilot study and one focal study, we tested three rare people with basolateral amygdala lesions to dissociate two specific processing components: those triggered by attention to social cues (e.g., seeing a face) and those triggered by endogenous semantic knowledge (e.g., imbuing a machine with animacy). A pilot study demonstrated that, like neurologically intact control group participants, the three amygdala-damaged participants produced anthropomorphic descriptions for highly socially salient stimuli but not for stimuli lacking clear social cues. A focal study found that the three amygdala participants could anthropomorphize animate and living entities normally, but anthropomorphized inanimate stimuli less than control participants. Our findings suggest that the amygdala contributes to how we anthropomorphize stimuli that are not explicitly social.
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Letheren, Kate, Kerri-Ann L. Kuhn, Ian Lings, and Nigel K. Ll Pope. "Individual difference factors related to anthropomorphic tendency." European Journal of Marketing 50, no. 5/6 (May 9, 2016): 973–1002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ejm-05-2014-0291.
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Purpose This paper aims to addresses an important gap in anthropomorphism research by examining the individual-level factors that correlate with anthropomorphic tendency. Design/methodology/approach The extant psychology, marketing and consumer psychology literature is reviewed, and eight hypotheses devised. Data from 509 online survey respondents are analysed to identify individual characteristics associated with anthropomorphic tendency. Findings The results reveal that anthropomorphic tendency varies by individual and is significantly related to personality, age, relationship status, personal connection to animals and experiential thinking. Research limitations/implications This paper extends on recent research into the individual nature of anthropomorphic tendency, once thought to be a universal trait. Given that this paper is the first of its kind, testing of further traits is merited. It is suggested that future research further examine personality, as well as other elements of individual difference, and test the role of anthropomorphic tendency in the development of processing abilities with age. Practical implications Findings show that anthropomorphic tendency may prove to be a key variable in the segmentation of markets and the design of marketing communications, and that younger, single, more creative, conscientious consumers are an appropriate target for anthropomorphic messages. The importance of personal connection to animals, as well as experiential thinking, is also highlighted. Originality/value Given the importance of anthropomorphic tendency for the processing of messages involving non-human endorsers, as well as the formation of relevant attitudes and behaviours, this paper fulfils an identified need to further understand the characteristics of those high on this tendency.
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Karlsson, Fredrik. "Anthropomorphism and Mechanomorphism." Humanimalia 3, no. 2 (February 12, 2012): 107–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.52537/humanimalia.10051.
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The charge of anthropomorphism is still efficient in many academic corners to muffle those who speak about the emotional life of other animals. To project human properties onto other animals have been taken to be a categorical error. In human-animal studies, though, anthropomorphic projections are argued to be helpful analogues to describe other animals. The threat has, instead, been construed as ‘mechanomorphism’, the habit of projecting mechanical symbols or properties onto other animals. This has accumulated to a resistance that is sometimes as categorical against describing animals by analogies to machines, as the resistance against anthropomorphism has been. This essay includes a short analysis of Images of Animals by Eileen Crist, and The New Anthropomorphism John S. Kennedy. In spite of the authors’ oppositional views, the analysis focuses on similarities between the authors. In conclusion, it is suggested that the aim of these works is to give fair descriptions of other animals. It is also suggested, as opposed to the analyzed approaches, that we need as great a plurality of symbols as possible if we are to describe other animals as fairly as possible.
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Roshni, Raghunandanan, and Dr Tessy Anthony C. "Anthropomorphic Insights: A study the subaltern hero with reference to Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron." SMART MOVES JOURNAL IJELLH 6, no. 10 (October 10, 2018): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.24113/ijellh.v6i10.5108.
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Animal characters have fascinated viewers as well as readers in animated as well non-animated films and in fiction. This unfading interest in animal characters have inspired writers and film makers to use anthropomorphism as a tool for breathing life into flora and fauna. One could observe that films and fiction which are anthropomorphic in nature focus on relations between humans and animals as well as between weaker and stronger animals. A hegemonic relationship could be seen emerging among the characters thus making these perfect for post-colonial study. In post-colonialism the element of the ‘subaltern’ plays a major role. In all of these works the relationship between man and animals as well as stronger and weaker animals can be analysed through this aspect of ‘subalternity’ since the latter becomes the subaltern. While analysing a film or fiction of anthropomorphic nature as a subaltern text we cannot ignore Antonio Gramsci’s theory of the subaltern since he used this term for referring to all of those groups in society who were suppressed by the ruling class. DreamWorks Pictures’ Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron narrates the story of an anthropomorphic wild stallion who saves his herd from being destroyed by the U.S Cavalry. Spirit witnesses two contradictory sides of humans in the form of the Colonel who commands the cavalry and a Lakota Native American, Little Creek, who has been kept in captivity at the cavalry. While the Colonel tries to suppress Spirit by breaking his inner ‘spirit’ and transforming him into a beast of burden Little Creek teaches him how to harness his unrestricted energy in order to discover his inner strength whereby which he breaks down the supremacy of the Colonel. Thus Spirit symbolises the subaltern hero who ends the oppressive reign of the Colonel and his cavalry upon his herd as well as the Lakota Native settlement.
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Hiestand, Karen M., Karen McComb, and Robin Banerjee. "“It Almost Makes Her Human”: How Female Animal Guardians Construct Experiences of Cat and Dog Empathy." Animals 12, no. 23 (December 6, 2022): 3434. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ani12233434.
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Understanding how humans perceive and construct experiences of non-human animal empathy (hereafter, ‘animal/s’) can provide important information to aid our understanding of how companion animals contribute to social support. This study investigates the phenomenology of animal empathy by examining how humans construct sense-making narratives of these experiences, with the hypothesis that anthropomorphic attributions would play a key role in these constructions. Comprehensive, semi-structured interviews were conducted with six participants, using established interpretative phenomenological analysis methodology to facilitate deep examination of how they interpreted and reacted emotionally. Participants were consistent in reporting changes to their companion animals’ normal behaviour as the key to the identification of animal empathy experiences, yet they were highly paradoxical in their constructions of perceived internal drivers within their dogs and cats. Explanations were highly dichotomous, from highly anthropomorphic to highly anthropocentric, and these extremes were combined both within individual participant narratives and within some thematic constructs. This research demonstrates that experiences of companion animal empathy can be powerful and meaningful for humans, but the inconsistent mixture of anthropomorphic and anthropocentric reasoning illustrates the confused nature of human understanding of animals’ internal states. Insight into how humans construct animal empathy has implications for the moral status of these animals and an application for companion animals used explicitly for social support, such as in animal-assisted therapy and emotional support animals.
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Reysen, Stephen, Courtney N. Plante, Sharon E. Roberts, and Kathleen C. Gerbasi. "Fan and Non-Fan Recollection of Faces in Fandom-Related Art and Costumes." Journal of Cognition and Culture 18, no. 1-2 (March 28, 2018): 224–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685373-12340024.
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Abstract We compared face recognition of humans and fandom-themed characters (art and costumes) between a sample of furries (fans of anthropomorphic animal art) and non-furries. Participants viewed images that included humans, drawn anthropomorphic animals, and anthropomorphic animal costumes, and were later tested on their ability to recognize faces from a subset of the viewed images. While furries and non-furries did not differ in their recollection of human faces, furries showed significantly better memory for faces in furry-themed artwork and costumes. The results are discussed in relation to own-group bias in face recognition.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Anthropomorphic animals"
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Bliss, Gillian E. "Redefining the anthropomorphic animal in animation." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2017. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/27423.
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The use of anthropomorphic animal characters is pervasive in animation, but there has been little examination of how and why these are created, and how a viewing audience understands them. This Practice-based PhD examines how a re-defining of anthropomorphic and zoomorphic representation might bring a new impetus to the use of animal imagery within contemporary animation practice. An initial stage of research was to define the term anthropomorphism both as a visual language within animation practice and in the wider contexts of scientific and philosophical discourse. Social and psychological aspects are discussed, recognising this form of hybrid representation throughout the development of human culture. Links with Human Animal Studies disciplines raised the question of relating anthropomorphism to negative aspects of anthropocentrism and this led to a second stage of the research that explores ways of working with anthropomorphism that do not promote an anthropocentric bias. This is firstly achieved through the devising of a new theoretical approach to character analysis that is based on the recognition of perceptual aesthetic and sensual animal qualities in human-led , animal-led and design-led anthropomorphic characters, rather than a reliance on conceptual symbolic referencing of human experiences, goals, and narratives. Moving into the practice and influence from historical animation work provides impetus for a move away from character and narrative based work. Experimental animation techniques are used to create rhythms and patterns of abstracted animal and human imagery. This new work is based on contemporary ecological ideas that discuss relationships between humans and animals as interconnected species, thus providing a second way of lessening of anthropocentric bias in the subject matter. Having a starting point of aesthetic and sensual responses to actual experiences with animals is an important factor and live action film is re-animated to create digitally manipulated rhythms of colour, texture, movement and sound. The practical research outcomes are animation samples that evidence the coming together of experimental digital techniques and contemporary ecological subject matter. An action research model was devised for the research to enable the integration of theory and practice, and reflection on theory and practice to have an important influence on the practical outcomes. The approach taken was dependent on experience as a creative practitioner and as a teacher helping others to develop a sustainable creative practice, in allowing an open and intuitive discovery of ideas from both theoretical and practical explorations to create a flow through the research. The combination of theoretical and practical research undertaken provides an impetus towards the creation of future animation work using an anthropomorphic visual language redefined as zooanthropomorphic animation . The submission includes outcomes of a written thesis and links to practical animation work.
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Hübben, Kelly. "A Genre of Animal Hanky Panky? : Animal representations, anthropomorphism and interspecies relations in The Little Golden Books." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för kultur och estetik, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-147503.
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This dissertation investigates the visual and verbal representations of animals in a selection of commercial picture books for a young readership of preschool children. The picture books selected are part of the Little Golden Book series. The first twelve books in this series were published in the United States in 1942 and are still in print today, while new books are continually being published. Because these popular picture books have had a broad readership from their inception and the books in the series have a uniform aesthetics, a comparative analysis provides insight into mainstream human-animal relationships. Children’s literature is never innocent, and fraught with power imbalances. Animals become political beings, not only in the sense that they convey a didactic message, but in the sense that each animal representation carries a host of ideas and assumptions about human-animal relations with it. Using a theoretical framework that is grounded in Human Animal Studies (HAS), and more specifically literary animal studies, this dissertation analyzes the representation of human-animal interactions and relationships in different contexts. Before the advent of HAS, anthropocentric, humanist interpretations of animal presence in children’s literature used to be prevalent. Commercial picture books in particular could benefit from readings that investigate animal presence without immediately resorting to humanist interpretations. One way of doing that is to start by questioning how interspecies difference and hierarchy is constructed in these books, verbally, visually and in the interaction between words and images. Based on this, we can speculate about the consequences this may have for the reader’s conceptualization of human-animal relationships. In children’s literature speciesism and ageism often intersect, for example when young children are compared with (young) animals or when animals are presented as stand-ins for young children. This dissertation explores the mechanisms behind the representation of species difference in commercial picture books. The aim of this study is to analyze how commercial picture books like the Little Golden Books harbor a potential to shape young readers’ ideas about humanity and animality, species difference and hierarchy and the possibilities of interspecies interactions. The socializing function that is an important component of all children’s books makes that these picture books can shape readers’ attitudes from an early age. When reading children’s books featuring animals, the particular way these animals are represented guides the reader towards an ideology – and in the West, this ideology is predominantly anthropocentric. In Western cultures, children and animals are commonly thought of as natural allies, and as such they are often depicted as opposed to adult culture. This dissertation identifies the ways in which certain conservative tendencies are activated by these commercial picture books, but also emphasizes that they can be a subversive space where anthropocentrism can be challenged. The case studies developed in this dissertation demonstrate how even so-called ’unsophisticated’ picture books contain interesting strains of animal related ideology worthy of in-depth analysis. The visual and verbal dimensions of these picture books show that these stories are embedded in a cultural context that helps give meaning to the animals. A recurring concern is the function of anthropomorphism and the role it plays in how we value the animals in these books. I am particularly interested in how picture books depict various degrees of anthropomorphism, because it has the potential to challenge species boundaries and disrupt the human-animal dichotomy.
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Danielsson, Miryam Bernadette. "The Animal in the Mirror : Zoomorphism and Anthropomorphism in Life of Pi." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för språkstudier, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-172487.
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This essay explores the application of zoomorphism and anthropomorphism in Yann Martel’s novel Life of Pi. The novel, rather than being a mere shipwreck-narrative or a miraculous tale with religious overtones, is also a story about the complicated and perhaps inevitably divided relationship between humans and animals. This essay introduces the fields of ecocriticism and animal studies and defines anthropomorphism and zoomorphism in the context of literary criticism. The essay goes on to discuss the layers of meaning behind the names and naming of the two main characters using Burke’s rhetoric of identification, analyses the anthropomorphism and religiosity in the novel’s two stories, and analyses the two accepted readings of the novel from a zoomorphic perspective. The essay looks at the human-animal divide and its problems in literature, going into Derrida’s animal philosophy to provide a counterpoint to a view derived from Cartesian dualism. In a straight reading of the novel, the first story is regarded as metaphoric while the second story is regarded as literal. There is an alternative reading where it is left to the reader to decide which story is true, but this essay argues that this reading negates a metaphoric interpretation of either story and therefore dismisses the straight reading. Instead, this essay proposes a third, zoomorphic reading, fully compatible with the straight reading, where anthropomorphism is employed to externalize human actions onto animals, but where zoomorphism is employed to project animals onto humans in order to externalize their cannibalism. In the zoomorphic reading, both stories are interpreted as vehicles of projection while avoiding the logical pitfall of the alternative reading.
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Thörnqvist, Hampus. "Framing Nature : A discussion on the ethics of animal confinement in animal parks." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för kulturantropologi och etnologi, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-375529.
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The confinement of animals is today a widespread, widely accepted practice, regardless of the intention behind it. The confinement of animals for entertainment purposes, however, poses ethical questions that transgress the body of the animal itself and onto the boundaries of the human. What happens when a captured animal behaves differently from what we expect of it? Different from what we’ve trained it to? SeaWorld and Kolmården are two parks that both display animals in different ways. Both advertise themselves as offering unique experiences; close up encounters with animals that would most likely not happen in the wild. Both parks have also been subject to predatory animals behaving in unexpected ways. Furthermore, the artificial relationships established between humans and nonhumans in captivity have in the cases of SeaWorld and Kolmården proven to create a dangerous environment for both humans and animals. The ethical dilemmas that arises in correlations with the deadly-outcome incidents that have occurred in the parks, takes the form of questions regarding if confining animals such as wolves and orcas are ethically defensible in the first place
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Silva, Tatiana Pereira da. "Mamãe galinha, menina joaninha: representações dos animais no livro infantil e suas possibilidades na educação científica." Universidade de São Paulo, 2016. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/48/48134/tde-06102016-153955/.
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A literatura infantil contemporânea abarca diferentes mecanismos de apresentação com a intenção de atingir o universo do leitor. Deste modo, crianças não alfabetizadas ou em fase inicial de alfabetização podem ter o prazer da leitura alcançado com ou sem o auxílio de um adulto. São dois os caminhos de funcionalidade o entretenimento e a educação, que não podem se dissociar, visto que a literatura infantil no formato que conhecemos hoje não consegue entreter sem transformar educacionalmente o indivíduo, em alguma medida. Por ser um material historicamente vinculado com a alfabetização, o livro infantil está presente com frequência na sala de aula e no cotidiano das crianças. Levando em conta o caráter formador do livro, esta pesquisa analisa obras de literatura infantil baseando-se na investigação da representação figurativa e temática dada aos personagens animais das histórias, com o objetivo de explorar seu potencial para o ensino de ciências. Para determinar a metodologia de análise nos apoiamos no referencial fornecido pelo percurso gerativo do sentido da semiótica greimasiana na perspectiva da linguagem. As personagens animais escolhidas para este estudo foram galinhas e joaninhas encontrados em seis livros disponíveis em bibliotecas e salas de leituras de escolas públicas da rede municipal de Guarulhos/SP. Para ampliar o enfoque e, ao mesmo tempo, como resultado de nossas análises, discutimos algumas experiências de intervenções aplicadas em salas de aula elaboradas dentro do Projeto JOANINHA Jogar, Observar, Aprender, Narrar: Investigando Natureza, História e Arte na pré-escola realizado na mesma rede municipal de ensino em que os livros foram coletados. As intervenções foram realizadas em duas turmas de crianças em fase de alfabetização com idade entre 5 e 7 anos, e organizadas pelo grupo de pesquisa Interfaces do qual este trabalho faz parte. Os resultados alcançados apontam que o livro infantil traz consigo figuras e temas sobre as personagens animais que carregam valores historicamente produzidos pela sociedade e refletem na formação leitora da criança. Tais figurativizações são predominantes em detrimento de outras e, por isso, permitem a articulação com os temas relacionados aos fenômenos científicos. Ao mesmo tempo, mascaram determinadas características e comportamentos destes animais e de nossas relações com eles, e, assim, necessitam do olhar atento ao levar o livro para o âmbito da educação em Ciências.Contemporary children\'s literature includes different presentation mechanisms with the intention of reaching the universe of the reader, therefore, illiterate children or early literacy phase may have the pleasure of reading achieved with or without help of an adult. There are two useful paths, entertainment and education, which can not be dissociated since children\'s literature in the form we know today do not get to entertain without educationally turning a bit the individual. As it is a material historically linked with literacy, the children\'s book is often present in the classroom and daily life of child. Taking account the former character of the book, this research analyzes children\'s literature based on the investigation of figurative and thematic representation given to the animal characters of the stories in order to explore their potential for science teaching. To determine the analytical methodology we support the framework provided by generative trajectory of the greimasian semiotics from the perspective of language. Animal characters chosen for this study were chickens and ladybugs found in six books available in libraries and reading rooms of municipal public schools from Guarulhos / São Paulo. To extend and at the same time as a result of our analyzes, we discuss some interventions experiences applied in classrooms elaborates within JOANINHA Project Play, Observe, Learn, Narrate: Investigating Nature, History and Art in Preschool accomplished in the same municipal schools where the books were collected. The interventions were conducted in two groups of children in literacy stage aged 5 and 7 years, and organizes by Interfaces research group wich this paper is part. The results achieved indicate that children\'s book brings figures and themes about animal characters has values historically produced by society and it reflect the children\'s learning. These figurative ideas are predominate when compared the others, that\'s why it allows articulation with the themes related to scientific phenomena. At the same time, they mask certain characteristics and behaviors of the animals and our relationships with them, thus, they require the watchful eye to take the book to the realm of science education.
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Beale, Graeme Robert. "Tinbergian Practice, themes and variations : the field and laboratory methods and practice of the Animal Behaviour Research Group under Nikolaas Tinbergen at Oxford University." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/4103.
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This thesis investigates the work of Nikolaas (Niko) Tinbergen and his students, often known as the Tinbergians. Based on extensive archival research, and particularly on intensive study of fieldnotes – a resource largely untouched in previous historical enquiry – I throw new light on the scientific practices both of Tinbergen himself and the practices of individual students of his, including the relationship between research in the field and in the laboratory and the relationship between that research and the Tinbergians representation of their science, both to scientific and lay audiences. Chapter one investigates Tinbergen's own background, and his writings on method and practice. This included a commitment to studying 'natural' behaviour, which led them to be wary of experimental methods that might distort such behaviour. Tinbergen's idea of the 'ethogram' – a complete listing of the behavioural repertoire of a species – is here linked to earlier interest in comparative anatomy as a means of elucidating evolutionary relationships Contrary to the work of Eileen Crist, who argues that ethologist concern to produce mechanomorphic descriptions of behaviour led them to see their animals as machines, I show that the fieldnotes regularly included anthropomorphic description, which only later was excised in writing up scientific publications where mechanistic description and a programmatic rejection of anthropomorphism were the norm. The backgrounds of many of Tinbergen's contemporaries and students was considered in the first half of chapter two, and showed that almost all members of the school had a background in amateur natural history and strong personal and aesthetic affection for the animals they studied. The early fieldwork of the Tinbergians is examined in more detail in the second half of the chapter. This considers the work of two of Tinbergen's students: Robert Hinde and Martin Moynihan. Hinde's work is shown to be transitional between earlier approaches to animal behaviour and the more systematic methodology promoted by Tinbergen, while Moynihan's work instantiated a particularly pure expression of early Tinbergian ideals. Tinbergen's Oxford laboratory is the subject of chapter three, looking in particular at how 'natural' behaviour was studied in an artificial environment. I look at the work of Desmond Morris, Margaret Bastock (later Manning) and J. Michael (Mike) Cullen. Morris's work reproduced field techniques of intensive close observation of behaviour in the laboratory. Bastock's work, largely overlooked by previous historians, showed interest in behaviour genetics. Cullen's work illustrates the difficulties of studying natural behaviour under laboratory conditions, and emphasises the value that Tinbergians placed on direct observation over other possible recording techniques. I then proceed to a more general consideration of the relationship between laboratory and field in the early years of the Tinbergen school. Change over time is the theme of chapter four. Many of the early methodological commitments of the school were subsequently abandoned as the observation-led approach to behaviour gave way to a more explicitly theory-led and interventionist concern with causation, development, evolution and function. This was apparent both in the field and in the laboratory, and even included the occasional adoption of vivisection – a method dramatically at odds with the ethos of the early Tinbergen school. The final chapter investigates how Tinbergen and others of his school communicated their work to amateur audiences, and shows that in some instances the anthropomorphic observations excluded for their scientific writings reappear in these more popular communications. I then link this to the Tinbergen school's longstanding interest in human behaviour. The thesis is supplemented by a conclusion, and two appendices one listing the students studied in the thesis, and the other listing as many of Tinbergen's students as I can identify with surety.
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Webb, Laura. ""I suppose I am the exact centre" : anthropomorphism, metamorphosis and representations of animals in the poetry of Ted Hughes." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2014. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/5307/.
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Leventi-Perez, Oana. "Disney's Portrayal of Nonhuman Animals in Animated Films Between 2000 and 2010." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2011. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/communication_theses/81.
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This paper used the constant comparative method to examine the 12 animated features released by Disney between 2000 and 2010 for: (1) their representation of nonhuman animals (NHAs) and the portrayal of race, class, gender, and speciesism within this representation, (2) the ways they describe the relationship between humans and NHAs, and (3) whether they promote an animal rights perspective. Three major themes were identified: NHAs as stereotypes, family, and human/NHA dichotomy. Analysis of these themes revealed that Disney’s animated features promote speciesism and celebrate humanity’s superiority by justifying the subordination of NHAs to human agency. Furthermore, while Disney’s representation of NHAs remains largely anthropocentric, most of its animated features do not reflect the tenets of animal rights.
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Joyeux, Laure. "Les animalités de l’art : modalités et enjeux de la figure animale contemporaine et actuelle." Thesis, Bordeaux 3, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013BOR30012/document.
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Ma démarche de recherche comme de création s’articule autour de l’animalité dans ses relations avec l’art d’une part et autour des notions-clés que sont l’anthropomorphisme animal, le zoomorphisme, la métamorphose, la figure animale et l’hybridation, constantes thématiques, iconiques et plastiques de mes travaux d’autre part. Comment et pourquoi l’artiste convoque-t-il l’animal de manière récurrente et diversifiée ? Comment ont pu se jouer entre l’homme et l’animal, mais aussi aujourd’hui de manière frappante, des complémentarités physiques et matérielles, des affinités mentales, des tensions exacerbées ? Si l’animal est le témoin excentré du fonctionnement de nos sociétés, tel un miroir déformant et critique, que révèle sa figure aux prises avec l’art de nos comportements de bête sociale et de la relation que nous entretenons avec lui ? Le recours à des concepts émanant de différentes disciplines, en particulier des sciences humaines, a irrigué et éclairé les analyses d’œuvres : les nôtres, celles de l’art d’hier et d’aujourd’hui. Il s’en est dégagé leur densité sémantique quant à la teneur du lien qui nourrit le binôme homme-animal, que les situations mises en scène soient fictives ou réelles. Le parallèle entre pratiques d’expression plastique (imitation, caricature, assemblage, mise en scène) et figures de style (métonymie, métaphore, comparaison, allégorie) au sein des processus cités plus haut vise à mettre en valeur le caractère discursif des œuvres choisies. La convocation de l’animal bénéficie ainsi, au sein de notre thèse, d’une triple définition. L’image de l’animal, reflet et mémoire de notre humanité, accompagne l’homme, tel le paradigme – modèle vivant ou image modèle –, d’une certaine identité de l’homme – ses fragilités, ses révoltes, ses excès, ses obsessions, etc. La figure de l’animal est aussi à entendre comme une médiation, réussissant là où l’attaque et le dialogue directs ne sont plus possibles, parvenant à concilier les contraires. Ainsi investie, l’image ambigüe ou ambivalente de l’animal donne lieu à la multiplicité, à une extraordinaire fertilité iconographique et artistique. Ses figures, au défi de la forme monolithique, sont rarement isolées ; elles se croisent, se mélangent et s’interpénètrentMy research as well as my creative process on the one hand, revolves around the animal figure in its relationship to art, and on the other hand, around the key-notions of animal anthropomorphism, zoomorphism, metamorphosis, the animal figure and hybridization; constant, iconic and plastic themes of my work. How and why does the artist call forth animals in such a recurrent and diversified manner? How have physical and materiel complementarities, mental analogies as well as exacerbated tensions come into play today, in such a striking fashion between mankind and the animal world? If animals are the off-centered witness of how our societies function, as a distorting and critical mirror, what does its figure reveal when grappling with the art of our beast-like behaviors and of the relationship that we maintain with it? Resorting to concepts emanating from different academic disciplines, in particular, the human sciences, has provided and shed light to the analyses of the works: our own, those of the past and of today. The result being, an utterance density as regards the content of the link which feeds the man-animal pair, whether the situations staged are fictitious or real. The parallel drawn between the methods of plastic expression (imitation, caricature, assemblage, staging) and stylistic devices (metonymy, metaphor, comparison, allegory) within the process listed above is aimed at highlighting the discursive nature of the selected works. Eliciting the animal world within our thesis, thus benefits from a three-fold definition. The animal’s image, which is the reflection and recollection of our humanity, accompanies mankind, as the paradigm – living model or ideal image –, of a certain identity of mankind – its weaknesses, its rebellions, its excesses, its obsessions, etc. In addition, the animal’s figure is also to be understood as a mediator, prevailing over direct criticism and dialogue, and managing to reconcile opposites. Thus invested, the animal’s ambiguous or ambivalent image gives rise to multiplicity, to an extraordinary, artistic and iconographic fertility. Its figures, which challenge the monolithic form, are rarely isolated; they cross over, are mingled, and permeate
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Earnhardt, Eric Donavon. "The "Sentient Plume" : The Theory of the Pathetic Fallacy in Anglo-American Avian Poetry, 1856-1945." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1459369357.
Full textBooks on the topic "Anthropomorphic animals"
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Lindsay, Cibos, ed. Draw Furries: How to create anthropomorphic and fantasy animals. Cincinnati, OH: IMPACT Books, 2009.
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Yarbrough, Wynn William. Masculinity in children's animal stories, 1888-1928: A critical study of anthropomorphic tales by Wilde, Kipling, Potter, Grahame and Milne. Jefferson, N.C: McFarland & Co., 2011.
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Kennedy, J. S. The new anthropomorphism. Cambridge [England]: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
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1958-, Mitchell Robert W., Thompson Nicholas S, and Miles H. Lyn 1944-, eds. Anthropomorphism, anecdotes, and animals. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1997.
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Dobre, Carmen. Furries: Enacting animal anthropomorphism. Plymouth, Devon, UK: University of Plymouth Press, 2012.
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DeMello, Margo. Speaking for animals: Animal autobiographical writing. New York, NY: Routledge, 2012.
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1968-, Tyler Tom, and Rossini Manuela, eds. Animal encounters. Leiden: Brill, 2009.
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Dovey, Ceridwen. Only the animals. Melbourne, Victoria: Hamish Hamilton, an imprint of Penguin books, 2014.
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Bavaeva, Ol'ga. Metaphorical parallels of the neutral nomination "man" in modern English. ru: INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/1858259.
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The monograph is devoted to a multidimensional analysis of metaphor in modern English as a parallel nomination that exists along with a neutral equivalent denoting a person. The problem of determining the essence of metaphorical names and their role in the language has attracted the attention of many foreign and domestic linguists on the material of various languages, but until now the fact of the parallel existence of metaphors and neutral nominations has not been emphasized.
The research is in line with modern problems of linguistics related to the relationship of language, thinking and reflection of the surrounding reality. All these problems are integrated and resolved within the framework of linguistic semantics, in particular in the semantics of metaphor. Multilevel study of language material based on semantic, component, etymological analysis methods contributed to a systematic and comprehensive description of this most important part of the lexical system of the English language.
Metaphorical parallels are considered as the result of the interaction of three complexes, which allows us to identify their associative-figurative base, as well as the types of metaphorical parallels, depending on the nature of the connection between direct and figurative meaning. Based on the analysis of various human character traits and behavior that evoke associations with animals, birds, objects, zoomorphic, artifact, somatic, floral and anthropomorphic metaphorical parallels of the neutral nomination "man" are distinguished. The social aspect of metaphorical parallels is also investigated as a reflection of gender, status and age characteristics of a person.
It can be used in the training of philologists and translators when reading theoretical courses on lexicology, stylistics, word formation of the English language, as well as in practical classes, in lexicographic practice.
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Loetscher, Hugo. Der predigende Hahn: Das literarisch-moralische Nutztier. Zürich: Diogenes, 1992.
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Humphreys, Rebekah. "Critical Anthropomorphism." In Animals, Ethics, and Language, 45–64. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-32080-4_4.
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Parkinson, Claire. "When animals look." In Animals, Anthropomorphism and Mediated Encounters, 43–62. Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020. | Series: Routledge human-animal studies: Routledge, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429203244-3.
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Parkinson, Claire. "When animals feel." In Animals, Anthropomorphism and Mediated Encounters, 63–83. Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020. | Series: Routledge human-animal studies: Routledge, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429203244-4.
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Parkinson, Claire. "When animals speak." In Animals, Anthropomorphism and Mediated Encounters, 84–113. Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020. | Series: Routledge human-animal studies: Routledge, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429203244-5.
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Parkinson, Claire. "When animals think." In Animals, Anthropomorphism and Mediated Encounters, 114–32. Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020. | Series: Routledge human-animal studies: Routledge, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429203244-6.
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Burghardt, Gordon M. "Anthropomorphism." In Encyclopedia of Animal Cognition and Behavior, 1–4. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47829-6_1042-1.
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Burghardt, Gordon M. "Anthropomorphism." In Encyclopedia of Animal Cognition and Behavior, 346–49. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55065-7_1042.
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Humphreys, Rebekah. "Language and ‘Moral Anthropomorphism’." In Animals, Ethics, and Language, 65–102. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-32080-4_5.
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Parkinson, Claire. "Anthropomorphism, mediation and authority." In Animals, Anthropomorphism and Mediated Encounters, 17–42. Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020. | Series: Routledge human-animal studies: Routledge, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429203244-2.
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Humphreys, Rebekah. "Introduction: Anthropomorphism and Animal Ethics." In Animals, Ethics, and Language, 1–3. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-32080-4_1.
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Семёнов, Вл А., and М. Е. Килуновская. "ROCK ART OF TUVA: IMAGES, SUBJECTS, COMPOSITIONS." In Труды Сибирской Ассоциации исследователей первобытного искусства. Crossref, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.25681/iaras.2019.978-5-202-01433-8.131-157.
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В наскальном искусстве Тувы представлен определенный набор образов, сюжетов и композиций, характерный для каждого хронологического периода, который придает определенное своеобразие данному региону Центральной Азии. Безусловно, есть много общего с соседними регионами. Для образов и сюжетов есть определенные иконографические схемы, а в композициях устойчивая встречаемость отдельных элементов. Это позволяет говорить об их определенной семантической значимости, а значит, о возможности интерпретации, используя древние нарративные источники, этнографические параллели и аллюзии из других изобразительных текстов. Образы это козлы, олени, кони/лошади, кабаны, хищники, быки, антропоморфные фигуры, колесницы. Сюжеты сочетания олень и оленуха , олень и охотник , козлы идут по дороге и т.п. Композиции сочетание нескольких сюжетов на одной плоскости: сцены терзания, преследования, охоты, шествия животных и т.д. Rock art of Tuva is featured with a specific set of images, subjects and compositions, typical for each chronological period which gives a certain identity to this part of Central Asian region. Of course there are a lot of similarities with neighboring rock art areas. Images and subjects follow to the certain iconographic schemes. Constant occurrence of details presents in compositions. This allows us to speak about certain semantic meaning of those compositions and due to that about possible interpretations, using ancient narrative sources, ethnographic parallels and allusions from another graphic texts. Most common images include animal figures such as goats, deer, horses, wild boars, predators and bulls, as well as anthropomorphic figures and chariots. Subjects are like stag and fawn, deer and a hunter, goats walking by the path and others. Compositions mean conjunction of several subjects within a single rock panel scenes of torment, chasing, hunting, processions of walking animals, etc.
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Otsu, Kouyou, and Tomoko Izumi. "An investigation of user perceptions of anthropomorphic linguistic expressions in guidance from home appliances." In 13th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (AHFE 2022). AHFE International, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.54941/ahfe1001778.
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With the progress of using voice recognition technology and artificial intelligence, interactive home appliances that communicate with users in natural language and provide appropriate guidance are becoming widespread. Such intelligent artifacts not only provide advanced guidance to users but may also be the key to changing the relationship between humans and artifacts.In the field of cognitive science, it is known that human tends to perceive artifacts as if they were living things. It is known as the concept of the "media equation." Therefore, interaction design that makes such home appliances behave as more anthropomorphic entities may provide a means to make users perceive them as more relatable. However, many studies about animacy perception for interactive systems have focused on humanoid artifacts and their physicality. Therefore, there has been limited interaction design knowledge for making non-humanoid artifacts behave as anthropomorphic entities. In particular, an object's verbal expression may be considered an important factor affecting the perception of anthropomorphism toward the object. However, there is no sufficient discussion on whether the introduction of anthropomorphic linguistic expressions into the speech scenario of an object can become a factor to change how that object is perceived. In addition, it is not clear how the introduction of anthropomorphic expressions in situations of guidance by interactive systems affects the degree of comprehension of the content.In this study, we investigated how differences in the strength of anthropomorphism in the "speech" of home appliances affect users' perceptions of its guidance. This survey was conducted as a web-based questionnaire, and 132 Japanese-native speakers participated in it. In the experiment, participants were presented with a text of a scenario in which a microwave oven recommends a menu to a user and guides users on how to use" him/herself" to facilitate the user's task of preparing the menu. Then, they were asked to answer a questionnaire while watching the text. In this experiment, we prepared five sentences with different intensities of anthropomorphizing of the microwave oven written in the sentences. These sentences were designed to change the intensity of the anthropomorphism of the object without changing the content or intention of the sentences by using four anthropomorphic strategies: from third-person description to the introduction of first-person expressions (e.g., "I"), physical expressions (e.g., "my stomach"), casual expressions, and expressive emotional statements. Participants were instructed to answer the questionnaire in the same way for each of these five types of sentences.As a result, it was suggested that by increasing the intensity of anthropomorphism in the linguistic expressions expressed by the object, it is possible to change the way people perceive the object as if the object itself were speaking. In addition, there was no difference in the degree to which users understood the speech intentions of the appliances due to changes in the anthropomorphic expressions. These results suggest that anthropomorphizing the object based on linguistic expressions may help enhance the relationship with a human in interaction scenes where the artifact itself provides guidance.
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Lum, Heather. "Human-Animal Teaming as a Model for Human-AI-Robot Teaming: Advantages and Challenges." In AHFE 2023 Hawaii Edition. AHFE International, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.54941/ahfe1004183.
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Humans and animals have co-evolved for millions of years. The animal connection began with the exploitation and observation of animals by humans. Over time, regular social interactions were incorporated into the animal connection. This connection has also allowed us to utilize humans to help support and augment our skills and abilities; physically, emotionally, and cognitively. Of course, this relationship has changed over time as our connection and understanding of these animals’ capabilities has evolved as well as through the co-evolution of our species. At the same time, the future of human-autonomy teams shows a strong trend toward incorporating features to allow the human to engage with their robotic counterparts in a more natural way. Norman (2004) suggests that “products and systems that make you feel good are easier to deal with.” As the interfaces of robots, computers, and inanimate objects are designed to be more “intelligent,” humans may adapt the way they interact with, communicate, and think about such technology, treating objects more like humans. Humans (and many other animals) display a remarkably flexible and rich array of social competencies, demonstrating the ability to interpret, predict, and react appropriately to the behavior of others, as well as to engage others in a variety of complex social interactions. Developing computational systems that have these same sorts of social abilities is a critical step in designing robots, animated characters, and other computer agents that appear intelligent and capable in their interactions with humans (and each other), that can cooperate with people as capable partners, that are able to learn from natural human instruction, and that are intuitive and engaging for humans to interact with. Yet, today, many current technologies (animated agents, computers, etc.) interact with us in a manner characteristic of socially impaired people. In the best cases they know what to do, but often lack the social intelligence to do it in a socially appropriate manner. As a result, they frustrate us, and we quickly dismiss them even though they can be useful. It may instead be more useful to look at how humans interact and work with their animal counterparts. Like anthropomorphism, zoomorphism centers on attributing qualities to non-sentient beings; but in this case; it focuses on animal-like characteristics (Karanika & Hogg, 2020). In many contexts, teams are capable of solving complex problems well beyond the capacity of any one individual team member (Salas, Rosen, Burke, & Goodwin, 2009). However, not all teams are successful, and failures often come at a high cost. Why this is important is that humans often do not ascribe the same intelligence, consciousness, or abilities to animals as they do to humans and therefore may be less apt to get frustrated when it does not perform as expected. Also, understanding what different strengths and weaknesses each team member possesses will ultimately allow that team to be more successful. While animal-inspired designs have aided in improved robotic movement and manipulation, we maintain that design inspired by human-animal teaming can provide similar gains in robotic development, especially as it concerns improved human-robot interaction and teaming. As most people have far more experience interacting with animals than with robots, they are generally more able to recognize limitations in an animal’s ability to complete a task (Phillips, Ososky, Swigert, & Jentsch, 2012). In consequence, robotic designs inspired by human-animal relationships can lead to faster acceptance while fostering more effective interactions between humans and robots, as humans tap into well-established mental models, promote better understanding of near-future robots, and thus appropriately calibrate trust in near-future robotic teammates.
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Мychka, Mariia-Roksoliana, and Mariana Shkoliar. "Sociological discourse of the domestic animals status transformation in the human-animal relations." In Sociology – Social Work and Social Welfare: Regulation of Social Problems. Видавець ФОП Марченко Т.В., 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.23939/sosrsw2023.063.
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Background: The topic of human-animal relationship has been gaining more and more popularity in recent years in the Western scientific discourse, but there are not so many studies and scientific works.You can find only isolated works and empirical investigations on this topic in the Ukrainian scientific space, although the role that pets play in the life of a modern person is quite important. Purpose: justification of modern trends in human-animal relations through the prism of sociology. Methods: the methods of analysis, synthesis, systematization and generalization were the main ones in the work with the primary sources on the topic of the publication, which made it possible to determine the features of various approaches to the study of important aspects of the human – domestic animal relationship. The method of secondary analysis of sociological research made it possible to reveal the current situation regarding the practices of interaction between people and domestic animals. Results: Current aspects of the study of the pet`s role in people's lives have been clarified. The evolution of a person's attitude towards an animal in a historical-cultural section from an object (utilitarian attitude) to a subject, a partner in interaction (animal-companion, animal-friend, animal-child, etc.) is considered. The mechanism of changing the status of a domestic animal through the prism of the phenomenological paradigm is substantiated: the attitude towards animals depends on the framework of perception of their status and essence, which can be the values, norms and rules adopted in society or in a certain environment in a certain period. The factors that contributed to the change of the specified norms and rules of interaction were identified, including: the spread of humanism and posthumanism values, urbanization, the tendency to anthropomorphize animals, etc., The methodological foundations of B. Latour's actor-network theory were used to explain the subjectivity status of domestic animals. According to it, things (in our case, animals) are not only passive agents of interaction, not only exposed to the influence of a person, but also exert an influence on him. This means, that they are partners in a network of interactions. The process of domestic animals status transformation is illustrated on the basis of the social construction stages of reality by P. Berger and T. Luсkmann. Social, racial, and demographic characteristics of social practices related to pets are explored. Conclusion: The topic of interaction between domestic animals and people is not sufficiently disclosed in the sociological discourse, since interest in it began quite recently. Scientists were motivated to intensify research on this topic by changes in the attitude towards the animals that live nearby. From consumerism to partnership. This led to a change in the utilitarian value of animals, which began to be determined by feelings and emotions. This situation became possible as a result of the transformations of the value dimension of society, the spread of the philosophy of animals treatment, the principles of posthumanism. As well as the aggravation of the modern person needs to interact with animals, experience "live", real emotions and feelings (love , affection, devotion, etc.) in the world of technologies and rational relations. Keywords: sociology, pet, pets` status transformation, subjectivity of pets.
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Khan, Rafiul Hasan, Vununu Caleb, Suk-Hwan Lee, Kyung-Won Kang, Oh-Jun Kwon, and Ki-Ryong Kwon. "Automatic Control Point Selection System based Anthropomorphic Animal Face Masking." In ICCA 2020: International Conference on Computing Advancements. New York, NY, USA: ACM, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3377049.3377057.
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Van Ee, Chris, David Raymond, Kirk Thibault, Warren Hardy, and John Plunkett. "Child ATD Reconstruction of a Fatal Pediatric Fall." In ASME 2009 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. ASMEDC, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece2009-12994.
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The current head Injury Assessment Reference Values (IARVs) for the child dummies are based in part on scaling adult and animal data and on reconstructions of real world accident scenarios. Reconstruction of well-documented accident scenarios provides critical data in the evaluation of proposed IARV values, but relatively few accidents are sufficiently documented to allow for accurate reconstructions. This reconstruction of a well documented fatal-fall involving a 23-month old child supplies additional data for IARV assessment. The videotaped fatal-fall resulted in a frontal head impact onto a carpet-covered cement floor. The child suffered an acute right temporal parietal subdural hematoma without skull fracture. The fall dynamics were reconstructed in the laboratory and the head linear and angular accelerations were quantified using the CRABI-18 Anthropomorphic Test Device (ATD). Peak linear acceleration was 125 ± 7 g (range 114–139), HIC15 was 335 ± 115 (Range 257–616), peak angular velocity was 57± 16 (Range 26–74), and peak angular acceleration was 32 ± 12 krad/s2 (Range 15–56). The results of the CRABI-18 fatal fall reconstruction were consistent with the linear and rotational tolerances reported in the literature. This study investigates the usefulness of the CRABI-18 anthropomorphic testing device in forensic investigations of child head injury and aids in the evaluation of proposed IARVs for head injury.
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Lee, Young-Suk. "A Study on Anthropomorphic Animal Characters Facial Shape factors based on Yin-Yang with the Five Elements." In Bioscience and Medical Research 2015. Science & Engineering Research Support soCiety, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.14257/astl.2015.91.06.
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Laban, Guy. "Perceptions of Anthropomorphism in a Chatbot Dialogue: The Role of Animacy and Intelligence." In HAI '21: International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction. New York, NY, USA: ACM, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3472307.3484686.
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Sassen, Kenneth. "Rainbows in The Indian Rock Art of Desert Western America." In Light and Color in the Open Air. Washington, D.C.: Optica Publishing Group, 1990. http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/lcoa.1990.the2.
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Scattered throughout the Great Basin and the drainages of the upper Colorado and Rio Grande Rivers is a legacy of prehistoric and historic (i.e., post-Spanish contact) Indian rock art that represents a several-thousand year old tradition of creating culturally meaningful images on stone. Depending on the nature of the stone surface, and also on the intent of the "artist", the images were either pecked, scratched or abraded into the stone, or painted on suitably smooth and protected cliff walls. The terms petroglyph and pictograph are respectively applied to these two basic techniques. Petroglyphs typically were pecked through the dark patina coating, which slowly develops on many rock surfaces in the desert environment, to disclose the lighter colored rock beneath, whereas mineral-based pigments were employed in making pictographs. Among the inventory of images are human-like (anthropomorphic) and animal (zoomorphic) forms, as well as a large variety of abstract elements and more esoteric designs that are subject to various interpretations. With time, the rock art of the Great Basin area generally evolved from the abstract to the more representational, although many abstract designs remained popular (i.e., meaningful) throughout the area's long history.
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Xiaoyu, Jia, and Chien-Hsiung Chen. "Effects of Social Cues on Robot’s Gaze and Head Rotation on Users’ Perception." In 13th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (AHFE 2022). AHFE International, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.54941/ahfe1002304.
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The social cues embodied by social robots may greatly affect people’s impressions of them, thereby affecting the human-robot interaction (HRI) experience. This study focuses on the impact of two social cues on participants’ impressions in human societies, i.e., robot eyes blinking and head rotating. The conclusion was generated as follows: (1) The social cues of social robots in specific scenes included rotating head or blinking eyes, can improve participants’ perception of robots on anthropomorphism, animacy, likeability and perceived intelligence. (2) The social cues of robots will attract the attention of visitors to a certain extent, leading them to follow the robot on the tour. (3) At the same time, the ability to attract attention is limited. On the one hand, social robots need to have more social cues to bring people a feeling of being alive and intelligent. On the other hand, according to different usage scenarios, the attributes of social cues should also be different.