Chasing Lions: Co-designing human-drone interaction in sub-saharan Africa

Anna Wojciechowska; Foad Hamidi; Andrés Lucero; Jessica R. Cauchard

doi:10.1145/3357236.3395481

Chasing Lions: Co-designing human-drone interaction in sub-saharan Africa

Anna Wojciechowska, Foad Hamidi, Andrés Lucero, Jessica R. Cauchard

Department of Industrial Engineering and Management

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Abstract

Drones are an exciting technology that is quickly being adopted in the global consumer market. Africa has become a center of deployment with the first drone airport established in Rwanda and drones currently being used for applications such as medical deliveries, agriculture, and wildlife monitoring. Despite this increasing presence of drones, there is a lack of research on stakeholders' perspectives from this region. We ran a human-drone interaction user study (N=15) with experts from several sub-Saharan countries using a co-design methodology. Participants described novel applications and identified important design aspects for the integration of drones in this context. Our results highlight the potential of drones to address real world problems, the need for them to be culturally situated, and the importance of considering the social aspects of their interaction with humans. This research highlights the need for diverse perspectives in the human-drone interaction design process.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	DIS 2020 - Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages	141-152
Number of pages	12
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450369749
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3357236.3395481
State	Published - 3 Jul 2020
Event	2020 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems, DIS 2020 - Eindhoven, Netherlands Duration: 6 Jul 2020 → 10 Jul 2020

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Conference	2020 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems, DIS 2020
Country/Territory	Netherlands
City	Eindhoven
Period	6/07/20 → 10/07/20

Keywords

Co-design
Design
Drone
Hci4d
Human-drone Interaction
Social robotics
Uav

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Computer Networks and Communications
Human-Computer Interaction
Software

UN SDGs

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Wojciechowska, A, Hamidi, F, Lucero, A & Cauchard, JR 2020, Chasing Lions: Co-designing human-drone interaction in sub-saharan Africa. in DIS 2020 - Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, pp. 141-152, 2020 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems, DIS 2020, Eindhoven, Netherlands, 6/07/20. https://doi.org/10.1145/3357236.3395481

Chasing Lions: Co-designing human-drone interaction in sub-saharan Africa. / Wojciechowska, Anna; Hamidi, Foad; Lucero, Andrés et al.
DIS 2020 - Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 2020. p. 141-152.

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