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

TITLE=Adventure Mode: A Speculative Rideshare Design

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Computer Science

VOLUME=Volume 3 - 2021

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=Most smart city projections presume transportation efficiency, predictability, and control as core design principles. Adventure
Mode is a speculative game developed as part of a research project with a major automotive company, designed to challenge presumptions about the uses for and interactions between humans and moving vehicles in a smart city environment. Adventure Mode reframes the possible uses of moving vehicles from destination-based to journey-based experiences, embracing the submission to algorithmic decision as a ludic modality in human-computer interactions and Urban Artificial Intelligence proposals. Adventure Mode pushes the probabilities for unexpected encounters and anonymous play in increasingly predictable and disclosed environments.