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% Copyright (C) 2014-2020 by Thomas Auzinger <thomas@auzinger.name>

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\begin{document}

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% The structure of the thesis has to conform to the guidelines at
%  https://informatics.tuwien.ac.at/study-services

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\begin{abstract} 
The uncanny valley effect proposed by Masahiro Mori states that as the appearance of an entity is approaching, but failing to attain, a lifelike appearance, the empathy of a person towards the entity is abruptly shifting from affinity to revulsion. By seeking to explain the interplay between affinity and the appearance of human-like entities, the implications of the uncanny valley profoundly impact the design choices of such human-like figures. 
Robot recruitment is a recent innovation which refers to the automation of the recruiting process, in which candidates are evaluated and selected using algorithms and artificial intelligence. These robot recruiters can be visualised with human-like virtual characters to make them more appealing to the applicants. With the help of an online survey based on rating potential robot recruiters with varying human-likeness, this thesis explores how applicants’ feelings toward different designs of robot recruiters vary and, if very but not perfectly human-like robot recruiters fall into the uncanny valley. The participants had to rate 8 pictures of possible robot recruiters on four 7-point scales between polar adjectives: mechanical/human-like, artificial/lifelike, strange/familiar and not eerie/very eerie. In addition, the participants were asked how much they liked the picture of the robot recruiter.
The results of this survey show that the uncanny valley does occur in robot recruiters, but the robot recruiters chosen in this study were able to evade the uncanny valley and, therefore, an almost perfect human-likeness correlated with high likeability. However, no robot recruiter was rated better than the human. In addition, reasonably recognisable abnormal design elements or atypical features have led to robot recruiters being identified as eerie and strange. It can be concluded that the design of robot recruiters should strive for a highly human-like appearance without any abnormal features to achieve a high likeability. However, more research is needed to explore the design recommendations and the uncanny valley in robot recruiters further.

\end{abstract}

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\backmatter

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