quinta-feira, 10 de março de 2011

How Do People Respond To Being Touched By a Robot?

URL: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/EsPkaEYesds/How-Do-People-Respond-To-Being-Touched-By-a-Robot


An anonymous reader writes "You know it's coming, and for the forever-alone crowd, not soon enough: robots that physically interact with humans. Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have found in a study that people generally had a positive response toward being touched by a benevolent robotic nurse, but that their perception of the robot's intent made a significant difference. 'Even though the robot touched people in the same way,' said a team lead, 'if people thought the robot was doing that to clean them, versus doing that to comfort them, it made a significant difference in ... whether they found that contact favorable or not.'"

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