To evaluate the amount of energy deposited in radiosensitive organs and tissues human body, when an anthropomorphic phantom is irradiated, researchers numerical dosimetry use so-called exposure computational models (ECMs). One can imagine ECM as a virtual scene composed mathematically defined position relation to radioactive source. The source these ECMs produces initial state simulation: posit...

The topic of prehistoric anthropomorphic sculpture, its presentation and interpretation are widely covered in the works Marija Gimbutas. In her honor is submitted paper, which presents a representative very interesting vessel. It vessel shape human body, rare Eneolithic era.The was found accidentally on surface settlement mound. partially preserved, but available fragments allow to restore orna...

In its attempt to offer new ways into autonomy for a large population of disabled people, assistive technology has largely been inspired by robotics engineering. Recent human-like robots carry new hopes that it seems to us necessary to analyze by means of a specific theory of anthropomorphism. We propose to distinguish a functional anthropomorphism which is the one of actual wheelchairs from a ...

Computer-modeled characters resembling real people sometimes elicit cold, eerie feelings. This effect, called the uncanny valley, has been attributed to uncertainty about whether the character is human or living or real. Uncertainty, however, neither explains why anthropomorphic characters lie in the uncanny valley nor their characteristic eeriness. We propose that realism inconsistency causes ...

This paper addresses the field of humanoid and personal robotics—its objectives, motivations, and technical problems. The approach described in the paper is based on the analysis of humanoid and personal robots as an evolution from industrial to advanced and service robotics driven by the need for helpful machines, as well as a synthesis of the dream of replicating humans. The first part of the...

The concept of socio-technical systems emphasizes the mutual interrelationship between humans and machines. Accordingly, the objective of ergonomic design of socio-technical systems is to adapt the interaction between humans and machines in such a way that productivity, efficiency and humanity would not contradict each other. Hence, the human has to be considered as an integral part of the syst...

Neurology shows that human controls dozens of muscles for hand poses in a coordinated manner and such coordination is referred as to a postural synergy. The concept of postural synergies was recently adopted in the control of robotic hands. With the synergies implemented digitally in a controller, all the motors in an anthropomorphic robotic hand can be controlled via a few synergy inputs. Aimi...

Previous work has shown that gestural behaviors affect anthropomorphic inferences about artificial communicators such as virtual agents. In an experiment with a humanoid robot, we investigated to what extent gesture would affect anthropomorphic inferences about the robot. Particularly, we examined the effects of the robot’s hand and arm gestures on the attribution of typically human traits, lik...