Abstract
Most smart city projections presume efficiency, predictability, and control as core design principles for smart transportation. Adventure Mode is a speculative design proposal developed as part of a research project with a major automotive company that proposes uses and interactions for Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) and rideshare advancements that defy these normative presumptions. Adventure Mode reframes the focus of moving vehicles from destination-based experiences to journey-based ones. Adventure Mode pushes the probabilities for unexpected encounters and anonymous play in increasingly predictable and predicted urban environments. It embraces the submission to algorithmic decision and chance as a ludic modality in human-computer interactions and urban artificial intelligence.
Highlights
Reviewed by: Viktor Bedö, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland, Switzerland Ricardo José Vieira Baptista, University of Porto, Portugal Troy Innocent, RMIT University, Australia
Adventure Mode is a speculative design proposal developed as part of a research project with a major automotive company that proposes uses and interactions for Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) and rideshare advancements that defy these normative presumptions
Adventure Mode pushes the probabilities for unexpected encounters and anonymous play in increasingly predictable and predicted urban environments
Summary
You step outside on Tuesday at 5:30 pm. It is a summer afternoon in downtown San Diego. Adventure Mode have challenged rationalistic smart city narratives, conceptualizing their transformation through intermediation, interfaces, and pervasive play, challenging the presumed realities of technologically transformed and algorithmically driven urban environments, and focusing on smart city applications that allow for social, entertaining, and affective interactions (Nijholt, 2017). Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) can be viewed as “multidisciplinary technology,” one that provides enhanced digital connectivity and has the potential to adjust the logics of navigation and transport in the city and the connection between its human users. This offers a special opportunity to leverage AVs as playspaces. Focusing on the potential for play in AV design enables focus beyond traditional metrics, and is one way to accelerate reductions in emissions and vehicle miles traveled by encouraging shared vehicle use and reducing our current motivations for individual vehicle ownership
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