Droning on About Drones—Acceptance of and Perceived Barriers to Drones in Civil Usage Contexts

Lidynia, Chantal; Philipsen, Ralf; Ziefle, Martina

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-41959-6_26

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“…To date, the development and the use of UAVs for biosecurity measures is still predominantly in the "early adoption" phase with most of the effort focused on testing and fine-tuning technological aspects to improve UAV efficiency, range, responsiveness, and accuracy [9,24]. However, there is a growing appreciation that some of the biggest hurdles to the use of many biosecurity technologies are social and organisational.…”

Section: Uavs As a Means Of Targeted Biosecuritymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Given that UAV technology is rapidly diversifying into previously unoccupied niches, and that the success of much of this technology is likely dependent on obtaining an SLO, surprisingly little is understood about public perception and acceptance of UAVs. Of the relatively few studies that have investigated public perception of UAVs [24,25,27], we are not aware of any that adopted or investigated the use of participatory-design techniques to go beyond just asking what potential users want. Furthermore, these questions are typically asked at the end of the technology design process, not the beginning or before they are operational.…”

Section: Uav Spraying Technology Design and Social Licencementioning

confidence: 99%

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Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and Biosecurity: Enabling Participatory-Design to Help Address Social Licence to Operate Issues

Ogilvie

McCarthy

Allen

et al. 2019

Forests

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Forest health can be adversely affected by invasive organisms. Biosecurity measures to prevent the establishment of harmful invasive organisms at national points of entry (e.g., airports or shipping ports) are vital to protect forest health. Innovations in pest eradication technologies are being developed based on their efficiencies and effectiveness. However, the question of whether people find them acceptable is rarely considered. In New Zealand, research is underway into the use of highly targeted pesticide spraying using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as a novel technology to eradicate pest species that impact forest, food, and fibre sectors. Public approval for such technologies, however, can be a critical aspect for their success. A tool can be technically effective (achieve eradication), but uptake may be impossible if communities do not trust the technology. We developed a method for enabling discussions about the use of UAVs and their acceptability in general before being operationalized for biosecurity. This paper presents an investigation of how “participatory-design”, an often tactile, visual, and inclusive process of community engagement can improve the acceptance of technology use in the public sphere. We asked people, both scientists and citizens, to evaluate the acceptability of a range of UAV uses (including biosecurity) along a continuum and then explored the reasons for their placement. Key criteria for acceptable and unacceptable uses were subsequently developed to help technology designers and operators consider aspects of social acceptability during design processes. Our tool and approach facilitated discussions around technology acceptability that were subsequently adopted by our technical design team for the development and the use of acceptable UAVs for biosecurity. This research shows how systematic approaches to design can help uncover and mitigate social acceptability issues through inclusive design under increasing threats of biosecurity, whether related to challenges of trade or climate change.

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Section: Uavs As a Means Of Targeted Biosecuritymentioning

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Section: Uav Spraying Technology Design and Social Licencementioning

confidence: 99%

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and Biosecurity: Enabling Participatory-Design to Help Address Social Licence to Operate Issues

Ogilvie

McCarthy

Allen

et al. 2019

Forests

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“…• Social acceptability of technology usage has been inverstigated for various contexts and situations [13] or by particular user groups, e.g., for accessability [20,25] or in medical use cases [4,27]. • Ethical and social implications of particular classes of technologies, were looked at e.g., for wearables [11], smart glasses [5], drones [26,14], lifelogging cameras [12] and CCTV [17], as well as discussed for ubiquitous computing in general [2]. • A further string of research e.g., by the University of Twente 1 (Netherlands), covers intelligent personal assistants and human-robot-interaction.…”

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(Un)Acceptable!?!

Koelle

Böll

Olsson

et al. 2018

Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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A central viewpoint to understanding the human aspects of interactive systems is the concept of technology acceptance. Actual, or imagined disapproval from other people can have a major impact on how information technological innovations are received, but HCI lacks comprehensive, up-to date, and actionable, articulations of "social acceptability". The spread of information and communication technologies (ICT) into all aspects of our lives appears to have dramatically increased the range and scale of potential issues with social acceptance. This workshop brings together academics and practitioners to discuss what social acceptance and acceptability mean in the context of various emerging technologies and modern humancomputer interaction. We aim to bring the concept of social acceptability in line with the current technology landscape, as well as to identify relevant research steps for making it more useful, actionable and researchable with well-operationalized metrics.

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“…In order to apply the OV framework to predict future innovation, we therefore use an example, which currently enjoys high attention by the scientific as well as practitioner community: autonomous, electrical multicopters aimed at passenger transportation. Experts argue that these systems, often called passenger drones, will enable individual sky transport in the near future (see Lidynia, Philipsen, and Ziefle 2017). While we cannot predict how the development of passenger drones will exactly happen, we can use the model to derive an idea in which direction the development will go and where an opportunity for innovation will occur.…”

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On the origin of innovations—the opportunity vacuum as a conceptual model for the explanation of innovation

Planing

2017

J Innov Entrep

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The aim of this paper is to transfer the innovation system (IS) approach to the microeconomic level, creating a conceptual framework which helps individual actors to explain, identify, and predict the origin of innovations. Based on the ongoing discussion about the applicability of boundedly rational search and, in particular, the metaphor of an opportunity landscape, the author has developed a conceptual framework for the origin of economic innovations, structured along three dimensions. First, the adjacent possible defines a narrow space of potential first-order combinations of exiting knowledge, which is the trajectory for the new developments in technology and science. Second, the adjacent feasible defines an area of expected cost reduction which enables the exploitation of the new technologies within a threshold. Finally, the adjacent acceptable represents a small area on the current edges of socially accepted behavior, which currently only innovators embrace, but soon will reach the early majority of adopters. It is, however, the moment when all three dimensions achieve an intersecting area, when the opportunity vacuum (OV) is created. The OV is a space, which strongly attracts innovation and often creates multiple inventions at the same time emerging independently. While this model is aimed at explaining the origin of economic innovations in retrospective, it can also be applied as a framing method to anticipate future economic novelty.

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Droning on About Drones—Acceptance of and Perceived Barriers to Drones in Civil Usage Contexts

Cited by 69 publications

References 11 publications

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and Biosecurity: Enabling Participatory-Design to Help Address Social Licence to Operate Issues

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and Biosecurity: Enabling Participatory-Design to Help Address Social Licence to Operate Issues

(Un)Acceptable!?!

On the origin of innovations—the opportunity vacuum as a conceptual model for the explanation of innovation

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