Autonomous Individuals in Autonomous Vehicles
The Multiple Autonomies of Self-Driving Cars
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5948423 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Erik Stayton, Melissa Cefkin (0009-0009-0229-9919, PrincipalResearcherAndSeniorManagerOfTheHumanCenteredSystemsGroupAtTheNissanResearchCenterInSiliconValley), Jingyi Zhang (0000-0002-3147-8838, HumanFactorsResearcherAtTheNissanResearchCenterInSiliconValley) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 2017 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 92-110 |
| Publication date | 2017-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Conference Proceedings (CONFERENCE) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1559-890X • E-ISSN: 1559-8918 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1559-8918.2017.01140 |
| OpenAlex | W2790549607 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 26 |
We take the polysemy at the heart of autonomy as our focus, and explore how changing notions of autonomy are experienced and expressed by users of self-driving cars. Drawing from work-practice studies and sociomaterial approaches to understanding technologies, we discuss how driving as a task is destabilized and reconfigured by the introduction of increasingly automated systems for vehicle control. We report on the findings of a hybrid ethnographic experiment performed at Nissan Research Center - Silicon Valley, in which we video recorded interactions of 14 participants inside a simulated autonomous vehicle, and conducted semi-structured post-interviews. We look at the responses of our participants in light of three different themes of autonomy, which emerged through the analysis of the study data in the context of a broader program of ethnographically informed research: autonomy as freedom from the task of driving; autonomy as independence and individual labor; and machinic autonomy's ironic opposite, an increasing interdependence with human-machine systems that raises new issues of trust and control. We argue that AV development will have to address the social dimensions of roadway experience, and that this will require a multi-perspective approach (speculative work alongside other empirical examinations) to the specific ways human autonomy and sociality is aided, altered, or undercut by these systems
Affordance · Autonomy · Cognitive psychology · Context (archaeology · Perspective (graphical · Political science · Sociality · Sociology · Task (project management · Computer Science · Engineering · Ethics and Social Impacts of AI · Human-Automation Interaction and Safety · Information Systems Theories and Implementation · Psychology · Artificial Intelligence · Social Psychology
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Behavior in Public Places
Maps and Journeys
When Old Technologies Were New
Who We Talk About When We Talk About Users
Framed by Experience
Operationalizing Design Fiction with Anticipatory Ethnography
Developing Socially Acceptable Autonomous Vehicles
Design Rituals and Performative Ethnography
The Real Problem
Cognition in Practice
Reconstructing Technologies as Social Practice
Burning the truck and holding the country
Design Anthropology
Mixing Humans and Nonhumans Together
Anthropological Relocations and the Limits of Design
Driving while Palestinian in Israel and the West Bank
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,75 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2024 (7) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |