Incidental Encounters with Robots
Frederik Moesgaard, Lasse Hulgaard, Mads Bødker · 2022 31st IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN) · 2022
This paper reports on a field study of more than three hundred ‘incidental’ human-robot encounters in a public outdoor space. We have used an ethnomethodologically informed ethnographic method, employing breaching experiments and membership categorization analysis to reveal how Incidentally Co-present Persons (InCoPs) interact with and make sense of robots in an urban environment.