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Proceedings of iHDI 2020:
Interdisciplinary Workshop on Human-Drone Interaction

Co-located with the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2020)
Honolulu, HI, April 26, 2020




Organized and Edited by


Mehmet Aydın Baytaş                        Graduate School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Koç University
                                           Istanbul, Turkey

Markus Funk                                Cerence, Inc.
                                           Ulm, Germany

Sara Ljungblad                             Department of Computer Science of Engineering, University of Gothenburg and
                                           Chalmers University of Technology
                                           Gothenburg, Sweden

Jérémie Garcia                             ENAC, University of Toulouse
                                           Toulouse, France

Joseph La Delfa                            School of Design, RMIT University
                                           Melbourne, Australia

Florian ‘Floyd’ Mueller                    Exertion Games Lab, Monash University
                                           Melbourne, Australia



Copyright © 2020 for the individual papers by the papers' authors. Copyright © 2020 for the volume as a collection by its editors.
This volume and its papers are published under the Creative Commons License Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).
Preface


The public's perception of unmanned aerial robots –         this was evidenced by a full main track session and a
a.k.a. “drones” – is colored by their prolific use as       whole pre-conference workshop focusing on HDI.
tools for warfare and surveillance. In contrast, our        Building on these efforts, at CHI 2020, we have
community of human-computer interaction (HCI) and           organized the Interdisciplinary Workshop on Human-
interaction design (IxD) researchers envisions drones       Drone Interaction (iHDI 2020).
as a platform for ingenuity and novel experiences.
Drones have been considered in recent HCI research,         Current HDI research builds on a diverse array of
for example, to enhance virtual reality experiences with    motivations and methodologies, with contributions
compelling haptic effects, to guide calm and slow           originating worldwide. Thus, aiming to bring together
meditative movement experiences, to support                 this community in an inclusive fashion, our focus at
navigation and wayfinding, as assistive technologies for    iHDI 2020 has been interdisciplinarity.
the blind, and to augment sports and exercise.
                                                            Our goal is to build an enduring community of
Thus, within the HCI and IxD research communities at        researchers who continue to learn from each other's
large, human-drone interaction (HDI) is currently a         methods and philosophies, and collaborate over the
growing topic of interest. At last year’s CHI conference,   long term towards impactful research contributions.




                                                            April 2020                        Mehmet Aydın Baytaş
                                                                                                        Markus Funk
                                                                                                     Sara Ljungblad
                                                                                                     Jérémie Garcia
                                                                                                    Joseph La Delfa
                                                                                              Florian ‘Floyd’ Mueller
Keynote: Ethics in Human-Drone Entanglements

Kristina Höök
KTH Royal Institute of Technology




As interaction designers we are interested in how ethics   interact with them, spurring certain aesthetic
is enacted and shaped by exactly how we design             experiences, certain practices and responses, while
autonomous systems.                                        discouraging others. It is precisely in that interplay – in
                                                           those movements and adaptations of behaviors –
Drones are fascinating as we, in a sense, get              that ethics is enacted and enforced. Ethics to an
superhuman powers: we become cyborgs or centaurs           interaction designer attempting to create
as we get entangled with them. They take us to places      drone behaviors is not a bunch of abstract principles
we would not otherwise be allowed to enter or see.         residing in committees and institutions, it is not an
They move, makes a lot of noise, and behaves in ways       ‘attribute’ that we ‘give’ to a system, formulated into
that look intelligent and alive to onlookers.              some sort of ethical risk management checklist, nor is it
                                                           something that can be described in terms of individual,
As our ways of understanding the world fundamentally       rational, decision-making. Instead, ethics is emergent
sees movement as a sign of intentionality,                 in the interactions we, as designers (and users) enable.
drones become the ‘other’ to us — an alterity.
                                                           We shape and are shaped by these autonomous
Even more interesting to us, is how drones and other       systems. Ethics becomes emergent and enacted in the
autonomous technologies (depending on how they are         human-drone entanglement.
designed) require that we move in certain ways to

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