Question

In the future, more robots will occupy a strange gray zone: doing not only jobs that humans can do but also jobs that require social grace. In the last decade, an interdisciplinary field of research called Human Robot Interaction (H.R.I.) has arisen to study the factors that make robots work well with humans, and how humans view their robotic counterparts.
H.R.I. researchers have discovered some rather surprising things:a robot’s behavior can have a bigger impact on its relationship with humans than its design; many of the rules that govern human relationships apply equally well to human robot relations; and people will read emotions and motivations into a robot’s behavior that far exceed the robot’s capabilities. As we employ those lessons to build robots that can be better caretakers, maids and emergency responders, we risk further blurring the (once unnecessary) line between tools and beings.
(The New York Times – International Herald Tribune, September 17, 2013. Adaptado).

Com base no texto, responda em português:

a) Qual é o foco específico dos estudos realizados no campo de pesquisas denominado “Human Robot Interaction” (H.R.I.)?
b) O que os pesquisadores do H.R.I. têm descobert sobre as reações dos humanos ao comportamento dos robôs?

Answer 1

a) O foco específico dos estudos realizados no campo
de pesquisas denominado “Human-Robot
Interaction” (H.R.I.) é analisar os fatores que
fazem os robôs trabalharem bem com os humanos
e o modo pelo qual os humanos enxergam seus
equivalentes robóticos.
b) Os pesquisadores do H.R.I. têm descoberto alguns
fatos bastante surpreendentes: o comportamento
de um robô pode ter impacto maior em seu relacionamento com os humanos