Embodying driverless shuttles
| Tipo de publicação: | Misc |
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| Publication status: | Accepted |
| Ano: | 2025 |
| Howpublished: | NORDICSO 2025: the 8th Nordic Interdisciplinary Conference on Discourse and Interaction |
| URL: | https://www.ntnu.edu/nordisco2... |
| Resumo: | From 2016 to 2022, ten pilot trials of automated vehicles (AVs) for public transport took place in Switzerland, but their final reports rarely acknowledge the routine work done by the human staff. In 2024, we conducted 25 video-recorded interviews with former safety operators of AVs, mostly at the original pilot trial sites. A recurrent phenomenon observed in the recordings is that interviewees produce bodily conduct representing the vehicle’s movement alongside their narrative accounts. Grounding our insights in ethnomethodology and conversation analysis, and contributing to studies of mobility and AI (e.g., [1–2]), we focus on two distinct ways this is done. First, in schematic embodiment, the interviewees represent the driverless shuttle gesturally (using their palms or objects such as smartphones) to illustrate the AV’s coordination with other traffic members. This typically demonstrates coordination issues, such as overtaking or giving way. Secondly, in experiential embodiment, the entire body is used to re-enact how the AV’s movements are experienced by the human on board. This typically demonstrates problematic aspects of riding with driverless shuttles, such as abrupt emergency braking. Our paper explicates both types of embodiment through video excerpts, analysing their sequential detail and relationship to similar practices (e.g., [3–4]). We show how demonstrating features of a non-present technology in an embodied way minimizes the technical character of the recounted experience. The ‘autonomous agency’ of a machine thus emerges from specific situations of its use, relying on the skilled work of human participants. REFERENCES [1] https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429276767-23 [2] https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-024-01919-x [3] https://doi.org/10.1075/ld.00015.lef [4] https://www.inlist.uni-bayreuth.de/issues/58/inlist58.pdf |
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