The contingent futures of the mobile present: automation as possibility

In this article the authors outline and demonstrate a design anthropological approach to investigating automated mobile futures as a processual opening up of possibilities, rather than as a process of technological innovation. To undertake this they investigate the example of how the car-smartphone relationship is configuring in the contingent circumstances of the mobile present and the implications of this for automated mobile futures. The authors' discussion is set in the context of the growing possibility that automonous driving (AD) features are increasingly part of everyday mobilities (even if unequally distributed globally) and in which personal mobile smart technologies and artificial intelligence (AI) will exist in some form and will interface with humans and be interoperable with other technologies. In developing this the authors draw on ethnographic understandings of how people live with the possibilities afforded by technologies in everyday life.

• Record URL:
  https://doi.org/10.1080/17450101.2018.1436672
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• Supplemental Notes:
  • © 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Abstract republished with permission of Taylor & Francis.
• Authors:
  • Pink, Sarah
  • Fors, Vaike
  • Glöss, Mareike
• Publication Date: 2018-10

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: References;
• Pagination: pp 615-631
• Serial:
  • Mobilities
  • Volume: 13
  • Issue Number: 5
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISSN: 1745-0101
  • EISSN: 1745-011X
  • Serial URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rmob20

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Anthropology; Automation; Automobiles; Autonomous vehicles; Design; Future; Human machine systems; Intelligent vehicles; Mobility; Smartphones
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Design; Highways; Safety and Human Factors; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01689462
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Dec 20 2018 3:33PM