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Anca Dragan认为机器人不应只是操纵物体的工具，而应能与人类建立情感连接，这种拟人化体验让她确定了自己的研究方向。

“我感觉自己恋爱了。因为我想我了解Spot Mini的工作原理，对吧？……我大脑中产生了拟人化的联想。……这让我意识到，哇，机器人可以远不止是操纵物体的东西，它们可以成为与人类建立连接的事物。（I felt like I fell in love. ... It made me realize, wow, robots can be so much more than things that manipulate objects they can be things that have a human connection.）”

Anca Dragan主张对人类看似混乱、非理性的行为给予善意信任，把它们理解为在不同世界假设下的相对理性行为。

“也许我们可以给予他们一些善意的信任，也许我们可以认为他们实际上是相对理性的，只是对世界持有不同的假设。（Maybe we can give them a bit the benefit of the doubt, and maybe we can think of them as actually being relatively rational, but just under different assumptions about the world.）”

Anca Dragan认为越早理解人类行为背后的不同假设，就能越早造出能在不同情境下更好运作的鲁棒机器人。

“我认为，我们越早开始理解这一点，就越能早日获得更鲁棒、能在不同情境下更好运作的机器人。（The sooner we start understanding that, I think, the sooner we'll get to more robust robots that function better in different situations.）”

Anca Dragan认为人类推挤、引导机器人不是单纯干扰，而是传递奖励信息的宝贵信号，可用于推断用户偏好。

“我把它推开。我推开你，因为这是对机器人当前行为的反应。这就是我们所说的物理人机交互。……这是一种信号。它传递了关于奖励的信息。（I push it away. So I push you away because you know it's a reaction to what the robot is currently doing. And this is what we call physical human robot interaction. ... That is signal. That communicates about the reward.）”