A robots gaze 机器人的凝视
作者: 李恒意大利的研究人员发现,与机器人对视同样会触发人类的社交互动神经活动。
1Have you ever made eye contact with a robot? It can be a very strange experience. Now, researchers in Italy have found that it is more than just a feeling. They ran an experiment that showed how a robots gaze can trick people into thinking they are socially interacting with a human being. That experience can slow a persons ability to make decisions.
2“A gaze is an extremely important social signal that we employ on a day⁃to⁃day basis when were interacting with others,” said Professor Agnieszka Wykowska. She is the lead writer of a study on the research.
3“The question is whether the robots gaze will evoke very similar mechanisms in the human brain as another humans gaze would,” Wykowska said.
4 The team asked 40 people to play a video game of “chicken”. In the game, each player had to decide whether to permit a car to drive straight toward another car or to turn to avoid a crash. The people were playing against a human⁃like robot sitting across from them.
5During breaks in the game, players had to look at the robot. Sometimes the robot would look back and other times it would look away. As the interactions happened, the scientists collected data on behavior and brain activity.
6“Our results show that, actually, the human brain processes the robots gaze as a social signal, and that signal has an impact on the way were making decisions, on the strategies we deploy in the game and also on our responses,” Wykowska said.
7“The gaze of the robot affects decisions by delaying them, so humans are much slower in making the decisions in the game,” she added.
8 The findings can be useful for helping to decide where and how human⁃like robots might be placed in the future. “When it is understood when and how robots change social behavior, then we can decide which sort of context is desirable and beneficial to humans and in which context this should not occur,” Wykowska said.
Choose the best answers according to the text
Vocabulary 1. What does the underlined word “evoke” in paragraph 3 mean?
A. Hide.
B. Devote.
C. Arouse.
D. Strengthen.
Detail 2. How did the team carry out the experiment?
A. By looking at the robots in a video game.
B. By communicating with human⁃like robots freely.
C. By relying much on the strategies used in the game.
D. By asking participants to play a game with a robot together.
Detail 3. What influence does the gaze of the robot have on players?
A. It puzzles brain activity.
B. It makes them react slower.
C. It makes them perform better.
D. It disturbs their social behavior.
Detail 4. What advantage will the research bring in the future for man?
A. Knowing where to put human⁃like robots precisely.
B. Deciding when to use human⁃like robots.
C. Behaving better in social communication.
D. Improving peoples learning skills.
Ⅰ. Analyze the difficult sentence in the text
They ran an experiment that showed how a robots gaze can trick people into thinking they are socially interacting with a human being. 他们进行了一项实验,该实验展示了机器人的凝视如何诱使人们认为他们正在与人类进行社交互动。
【点石成金】本句是一个主从复合句,句中的that引导定语从句,how引导的宾语从句作动词showed的宾语;they are socially interacting with a human being是省略了that的宾语从句,作动词thinking的宾语。
Ⅱ. Memorize some text⁃centered chunks
more than 不止;超过
interact with 与……交流
make decisions 做决策;做决定
have an impact on 对……有影响
be useful for 对……有用