AUTHOR=Bedö Viktor 

TITLE=Catch the Bus: Probing Other-Than-Human Perspectives in Design Research

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Computer Science

VOLUME=Volume 3 - 2021

YEAR=2021

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/computer-science/articles/10.3389/fcomp.2021.636107

DOI=10.3389/fcomp.2021.636107

ISSN=2624-9898

ABSTRACT=Prompted by Catch the Bus, an experimental street game design project with and for autonomous buses, this text explores strategies to substantiate the speculation about other-than-human perspectives. It builds on philosophical arguments about the role of species similarity in grasping non-human experience and applies these arguments to thing perspectives. Gameplay and props from Catch the Bus instantiate a kind of similarity between human players and autonomous buses that emerges through the adoption of certain choreographies and sensing capabilities. The text contributes theoretical arguments to the debate of other-than-human perspectives in more-than-human design.