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Uncanny-Valley Girl: Karl F. MacDorman and Hiroshi Ishiguro on Android Science. Fast Breaking Papers, ScienceWatch.com, June 2008. [online]

Why androids are creepy by Andrew Sullivan. The Daily Dish, TheAtlantic.com, May 6, 2008. [online]

Uncanny valley of the dolls. MindHacks, May 2, 2008. [online]

IUPUI Invests in Life Sciences Research. Inside Indiana Business, April 29, 2008. [online]

IUPUI informatics faculty awarded funding for prestigious Signature Centers. School of Informatics, News & Media, January 29, 2008. [online]

MacDorman explains android research in interview with IU Alumni, January 15, 2008 [online]

Winter College Conversations: Karl MacDorman. Interview with Ken Beckley, University of Indiana Alumni Association. [online]
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Das unheimliche Tal. Gee Magazin. Love For Games. (December, 2007, p. 92). [article]

The Unreal Gets Real. Interview with Mike Cowper and David Henninger. Across Indiana (Season 18, Episode 4, 7:43-10:55), WFYI Indianapolis. Thursday, November 08, 2007. [video]

Escaping the Uncanny Valley: Siggraph panel reveals new twists on old problem of creating engaging CG characters. 3D World, November 2007. [article]

What puts the creepy into robot crawlies? by Jim Giles. Tech, NewScientist (issue 2627, p. 32), October 27, 2007. [teaser, online, print]

'Uncanny valley' effect highlighted. Science & Technology, Channel 4, London, UK, October 25, 2007. [online]

Social and moral relationships with personified robots. Provocate.org, November 1, 2007. [online]

MacDorman grabs notice of BBC for android research. News & Media, School of Informatics, August 16, 2007. [online]

Siggraph 2007 Diary. By Renee Dunlop. CGSociety, August 9, 2007. [online]

Our uncanny ability to spot a fake. By Mark Ward. BBC News, Technology, August 9, 2007. [online]

Creating robots that resemble humans: IUPUI professor one of the world's leading researchers in androids. South Bend Tribune, Local. [online]

Mais evoluídos que robôs, os andróides possuem características humanas. IDG Now! (Brazil), July 1, 2007. [online]

IUPUI Informatics Professor an Expert on Androids: Making Robots Seem More Humanlike Is a Goal. The Herald-Times, July 1, 2007. [article]

Sensor network could aid mass transit. USA Today (Magazine), July 1, 2007. [article]

Indiana/Purdue Prof Dedicated to Making Helper Droids. By Paul McCloskey. Campus Technology, June 26, 2007. [article]

Getting Real. By Erika D. Smith. Indianapolis Star, Front Page, June 19, 2007. [online, print]
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IUPUI Informatics professor continues making waves in android research world. School of Informatics, News & Media, June 19, 2007. [online]

Androids Have Higher Calling Than Mechanical Cousins, IU Expert Says. By Joe Stuteville. Indiana University, News & Media, May 30, 2007. [article]
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Should Robots Be Built to Look More Like Us? by Eric Hand. St. Louis Post-Dispatch. May, 29, 2007. [article]
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IUPUI Informatics professor gaining prominence for robotics research. School of Informatics, News & Media, May 30, 2007. [online]

IU Researchers Help Develop Sensor Network to Analyze Crowds. InsideINdianaBusiness.com Report. April 6, 2007. [blurb]

Sensor Monitoring System Could Aid Mass Transit, Homeland Security by Joe Stuteville. Indiana University, News & Media, April 5, 2007. [article]

5 o’clock news, Rick Dawson, reporter, WISH TV 8 Indianapolis. April 11, 2007.

He's dead, but still poppin', interview with Mike Rhee, on Marketplace, National Public Radio, 6.30 pm, March 1, 2007. [article]

Android Science, interview by Natasha Stillwell, on "Japan: The Future Is Now," The Science Channel, 3 pm, February 4, 2007.

Where's the Android? IUPUI professor uses robots to study human behavior by Lanette J. Williams, Indiana Alumni Magazine (pp. 21-22), January/February 2007. [article]

I, Robot; You, Human: IU android expert guides discussion in science journal by Joe Stuteville, Indiana University, News & Media, December 20, 2006. [article]
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WFYI 90.1 FM radio interview with Barbara Lewis and Kathy Miller, MD of Sound Medicine, October 29, 2006. [blurb]

IUPUI android expert talks about his research on Sound Medicine radio show, Oct. 29. School of Informatics, News & Media, October 27, 2006. [online]

Meet my android twin. Interview with Ben Schaub, New Scientist. October 12, 2006.

Interview with Scott Olson, Indianapolis Business Journal, Innovators section. August 21, 2006. [article]

Uncanny valley: Fungus goes trekking in the uncanny valley, July 31, 2006. Hafta Magazine. [online]

2CC Canberra radio interview with Mike Jeffreys, the host of the Breakfast show. 1.10 pm, July 27, 2006.

700 WLW Cincinnati radio interview with Gary Burbank. 12.40 pm, July 27, 2006.

IU Professor Studies Human-Robot Interaction by WBIW News, July 25, 2006. [blurb]

WIBC radio interview with Network Indiana reporter, Liz Thomas, which feeds to more than 90 radio stations. July 24, 2006. [blurb]

Putting A Face On Android Science By Exploring An Uncanny Valley by Joe Stuteville, Indiana University, News & Media, July 21, 2006. [article]
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The depths of the uncanny valley by Carrie Gouskos, GameSpot (CNET), July 8, 2006. [article]

Life lessons from the lifelike by Ric Burrous, IUPUI Magazine, Spring/Summer 2006. [article]

Of Device and Men: Android research helps explain human behavior by Joe Stuteville, Indiana University, News & Media, June 12, 2006. [article]
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A TMT Update: Becker's Legacy to Psychology — a Many-Splendored Thing by Jeff Greenberg, The Ernest Becker Foundation Newsletter, June 2006. [article]

Informatics professor explores the "uncanny valley." School of Informatics, News & Media, June 1, 2006. [online]

A walk through the uncanny valley by Erika Biga Lee, Indiana Daily Student, June 1, 2006. [article]
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Science Olympiad brings curious students to campus by Erika Biga Lee, Indiana Daily Student, May 18, 2006. [article]

Android Science by Tim Hornyak, Scientific American, May 2006 print issue, pp. 32-34. (April 23, 2006 online version.) [article]

Tim Hornyak (2006). Loving the Machine. Tokyo, Japan: Kodansha International, p. 147.

Harper's Index, Harper's Magazine, March 2006. [index]

Informatics Faculty Featured in Latest IUPUI TV Commercials. School of Informatics, News & Media, February 22, 2006. [online]

The Secret To Japan's Robot Dominance by Kirk Biglione, Planet Tokyo, January 24, 2006. [article]

NHK Science Zero, aired January 14, 2006, 19:00-19:44 pm. Japan Broadcasting Corporation, Science and Environment Programs Division.

Special Report: Japan's Humanoid Robots. Better than People: Why the Japanese Want Their Robots to Act More like Humans by Brian Barry, The Economist, December 24, 2005. [article]

Human Computer Interaction Scholar Joins Informatics Faculty Robotics expert comes to the Midwest from the Far East. School of Informatics, News & Media, November 16, 2005 [online]

Nano: Roboter in Japan, interview with Michael Haenel, Science and Technology News, ARD German Television Network, September 19, 2005. [blurb]

Robot Nation: Why Japan, and not America, is likely to be the world's first cyborg society, by Jeff Yang, special to SF Gate, August 25, 2005. [article]

Android Science, interview by Natasha Stillwell, The Daily Planet Goes to Japan, The Discovery Channel, March 24, 2005. [video]