A Walk in the Park With Robodog: Navigating Around Pedestrians Using a Spot Robot as a “Guide Dog”

IF 1 4区社会学 Q2 CULTURAL STUDIES

Space and Culture Pub Date : 2023-03-06 DOI:10.1177/12063312231159215

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Abstract

This article explores how visually impaired people (VIP) navigate around (a) stationary people and (b) moving people, when guided by the Boston Dynamics’ robotic “dog” and its human operator. By focusing on the micro-spatial dimensions of human mobility while being guided by a mobile robot, the paper argues that the VIP+robodog+operator is in situ emerging as a socio-material assemblage in which agency, perception, and trust gets distributed and that this distribution enables the accomplishment of navigation. The article is based on ethnomethodology and multimodal conversation analysis (EMCA) and a video ethnographic methodology. It contributes to studies in perception, agency, human–robot interaction, space and culture, and distributed co-operative action in socio-material settings.

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与机器狗一起在公园散步:使用Spot机器人作为“导盲犬”在行人周围导航

本文探讨了在波士顿动力公司的机器人“狗”及其操作员的引导下，视障人士如何在（a）静止的人和（b）移动的人周围导航。通过关注在移动机器人引导下人类行动的微观空间维度，本文认为，VIP+机器狗+操作员正在原位成为一种社会物质组合，在这种组合中，代理、感知和信任得以分布，这种分布能够实现导航。本文以民族志方法论和多模式会话分析（EMCA）以及视频民族志方法为基础。它有助于感知、代理、人机互动、空间和文化以及社会物质环境中的分布式合作行动的研究。

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Space and Culture Multiple-

CiteScore

2.80

自引率

10.00%

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期刊介绍： Space and Culture is an interdisciplinary journal that fosters the publication of reflections on a wide range of socio-spatial arenas such as the home, the built environment, architecture, urbanism, and geopolitics. it covers Sociology, in particular, Qualitative Sociology and Contemporary Ethnography; Communications, in particular, Media Studies and the Internet; Cultural Studies; Urban Studies; Urban and human Geography; Architecture; Anthropology; and Consumer Research. Articles on the application of contemporary theoretical debates in cultural studies, discourse analysis, virtual identities, virtual citizenship, migrant and diasporic identities, and case studies are encouraged.