Abstract
On the road, a shift of agency away from human drivers is taking place with AI-based roadside monitoring and driving assistants. This changes interaction both within the car and with the environment outside of it, mediated by driving assistant algorithms. It also changes encounters with the non-human, framing and evaluating them from a technological lens. This paper aims to show how the human experience of their environment during a car ride is shifted through AI, where encounters with non-human entities are observed and logged by technology, and how this can be used to remediate passengers’ experience of their environment during a car drive. The AI becomes a mediator which makes visible the agency of the non-humans in our environment and allows an immersion into the outside from inside the car by linking the driving assistant’s detection to sensual – auditory and olfactory – cues changing the car interior.
Keywords
more-than-human encounters; agency; experience design; ai-based driving assistant
DOI
https://doi.org/10.21606/drs.2024.343
Citation
Barbara Lackner, O. (2024) Embodying the Driving Experience Through AI Driving Assistants as a Means of Noticing the More-than-Human, in Gray, C., Ciliotta Chehade, E., Hekkert, P., Forlano, L., Ciuccarelli, P., Lloyd, P. (eds.), DRS2024: Boston, 23–28 June, Boston, USA. https://doi.org/10.21606/drs.2024.343
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Embodying the Driving Experience Through AI Driving Assistants as a Means of Noticing the More-than-Human
On the road, a shift of agency away from human drivers is taking place with AI-based roadside monitoring and driving assistants. This changes interaction both within the car and with the environment outside of it, mediated by driving assistant algorithms. It also changes encounters with the non-human, framing and evaluating them from a technological lens. This paper aims to show how the human experience of their environment during a car ride is shifted through AI, where encounters with non-human entities are observed and logged by technology, and how this can be used to remediate passengers’ experience of their environment during a car drive. The AI becomes a mediator which makes visible the agency of the non-humans in our environment and allows an immersion into the outside from inside the car by linking the driving assistant’s detection to sensual – auditory and olfactory – cues changing the car interior.