Acceptance of self-driving cars: Does their posthuman ability make them more eerie or more desirable?

Andrew Gambino; S. Shyam Sundar

doi:10.1145/3290607.3312870

Acceptance of self-driving cars: Does their posthuman ability make them more eerie or more desirable?

Andrew Gambino, S. Shyam Sundar

Film-Video and Media Studies

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Abstract

The arrival of self-driving cars and smart technologies is fraught with controversy, as users hesitate to cede control to machines for vital tasks. While advances in engineering have made autonomous technology a reality, design work is needed to motivate their mass adoption. What are the key predictors of acceptance of self-driving cars? Is it the ease of use or coolness aspect? Is it the perceived control for users? We decided to find out with a survey (N = 404) assessing acceptance of self-driving cars and discovered that the strongest predictor is “posthuman ability,” suggesting that individuals are much more accepting of technology that can clearly outclass human abilities.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	CHI EA 2019 - Extended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450359719
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3290607.3312870
State	Published - May 2 2019
Event	2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2019 - Glasgow, United Kingdom Duration: May 4 2019 → May 9 2019

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Name	Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

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Conference	2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2019
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Glasgow
Period	5/4/19 → 5/9/19

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Software
Human-Computer Interaction
Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design

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Gambino, A., & Shyam Sundar, S. (2019). Acceptance of self-driving cars: Does their posthuman ability make them more eerie or more desirable? In CHI EA 2019 - Extended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Article 3312870 (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3290607.3312870

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Acceptance of self-driving cars: Does their posthuman ability make them more eerie or more desirable? / Gambino, Andrew; Shyam Sundar, S.
CHI EA 2019 - Extended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery, 2019. 3312870 (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings).

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Gambino A, Shyam Sundar S. Acceptance of self-driving cars: Does their posthuman ability make them more eerie or more desirable? In CHI EA 2019 - Extended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery. 2019. 3312870. (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings). doi: 10.1145/3290607.3312870

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