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Cuteness Engineering

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In our own lives, many of us have enjoyed playing as children with cute teddy bears , dolls, and/or other toys. When we began to read a language, illustrated stories often depicted cute, cuddly animals, people, and objects. Many people probably think they have a reasonably stable, inclusive understanding of what is cute, and what is not.

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The preceding chapter contains extensive abridged and merged text from three publications by one author, Marcus (together with the co-author Ma for one source), all published by Springer and used with permission of the publisher and the authors [Marcus (2015a, b), Marcus and Baradit (2015), Marcus and Xiaojuan (2016)].

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    Aaron Marcus

  2. The Open University of Japan, Tokyo, Japan

    Masaaki Kurosu

  3. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Kowloon, Hong Kong

    Xiaojuan Ma

  4. Tokyo Metropolitan University, Tokyo, Japan

    Ayako Hashizume

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Marcus, A., Kurosu, M., Ma, X., Hashizume, A. (2017). Introduction. In: Cuteness Engineering. Springer Series on Cultural Computing. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61961-3_1

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