AUTHOR=Sherman Stephanie , Smith Ash Eliza , Forster Deborah , Emmenegger Colleen 

TITLE=Adventure Mode: A Speculative Rideshare Design

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Computer Science

VOLUME=3

YEAR=2021

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/computer-science/articles/10.3389/fcomp.2021.707081

DOI=10.3389/fcomp.2021.707081

ISSN=2624-9898

ABSTRACT=<p>Most smart city projections presume efficiency, predictability, and control as core design principles for smart transportation. Adventure Mode is a speculative design proposal developed as part of a research project with a major automotive company that proposes uses and interactions for Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) and rideshare advancements that defy these normative presumptions. Adventure Mode reframes the focus of moving vehicles from destination-based experiences to journey-based ones. Adventure Mode pushes the probabilities for unexpected encounters and anonymous play in increasingly predictable and predicted urban environments. It embraces the submission to algorithmic decision and chance as a ludic modality in human-computer interactions and urban artificial intelligence.</p>