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Karl F. MacDorman

Psychology · Indiana University

OpenAlex ORCID
Social Robot Interaction and HRIFace Recognition and PerceptionEvolutionary Psychology and Human BehaviorHuman Pose and Action RecognitionPsychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment

Publications

135

Citations

9,500

Est. group size

—

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

33

Publishing since 1994

Research summary
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Karl F. MacDorman studies how people perceive and react to human-like artificial figures, especially the 'uncanny valley' effect, where near-realistic robots, avatars, or AI-generated images feel unsettling. His work spans human-robot and human-computer interaction, face and image perception, and detecting deepfakes, and he also collaborates on computer vision applications such as hand gesture recognition and image processing. Studies range from psychology experiments and meta-analyses to technical image-analysis methods.

Uncanny valley and human-likeness perceptionHuman-robot and human-computer interactionDeepfake detection and face perceptionComputer vision for rehabilitation and gesture recognitionImage processing and super-resolution

Publication activity has been variable over the past decade, with a peak around 2021 and a steady output of a few papers per year in recent years.

Generated by claude-opus-4-8 from public bibliographic data · Jul 11, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 2.8/year recently
2017: 4 publications172018: 5 publications182019: 7 publications192020: 2 publications202021: 9 publications921222023: 3 publications232024: 5 publications242025: 4 publications252026: 2 publications26
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • Figshare×5
  • Publisher×4
  • Author eBooks×4
  • IET Computer Vision×2
  • Journal of Vision×2

This profile was generated automatically from public scholarly data (OpenAlex). Group size and activity levels are estimates derived from co-authorship patterns.

Last updated Jul 11, 2026.

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