Introduction to The Sensorial Experience of the Drone

Agostinho, Daniela; Maurer, Kathrin; Veel, Kristin

doi:10.1080/17458927.2020.1820195

Cited by 21 publications

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“…Drone scholars have reflected too on the boundaries between military and more-thanmilitary drones, revealing shared lineages and logics (Sandvik and Lohne, 2014). In discussions on drone policing and the wider commercialisation of airspace, researchers have identified a 'blurring' between military and civilian drones, those which cannot be differentiated given that 'the development and logic of each inform the other' (Agostinho et al, 2020;Crampton, 2016;Garrett and Fish, 2016;Jensen, 2016;Kaplan and Miller, 2019: 419;Richardson, 2018;Shaw, 2017a;Wall, 2013Wall, , 2016. Here, a feminist geopolitics of the drone-home brings to bear the importance of everyday droning, namely the honing and homing of military technology and drone capitalism.…”

Section: Feminist Geopolitics: Conceptualising 'Everyday Droning'mentioning

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‘Everyday droning’: Towards a feminist geopolitics of the drone-home

Jackman¹,

Brickell

2021

Progress in Human Geography

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We live in an increasingly drone-saturated world. In this article, we bring drone scholarship and feminist geopolitics into dialogue to interrogate the drone-home. We re-orient military- and state-led accounts, foregrounding the growing range of non-state actors enacting and subject to the drone as it is increasingly employed in the Global North. In so doing, we develop the concept of ‘everyday droning’ as the honing and homing of military technology and drone capitalism. Examining militarization and enclosure at the scale of everyday home life, we urge future geographical work to engage with everyday droning being actively seeded in the domestic here-and-now.

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Section: Feminist Geopolitics: Conceptualising 'Everyday Droning'mentioning

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‘Everyday droning’: Towards a feminist geopolitics of the drone-home

Jackman¹,

Brickell

2021

Progress in Human Geography

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“…Replicating the study in an empty room, Heimann et al (2019) found that greater motor resonance was again evoked for the Steadicam, providing the first empirical evidence that camera movement alone can modulate spectator's bodily engagement during film experience. Although there is a growing number of theoretical (Virilio 1994;Verhoeff 2012;3 Campbell 2018;Agostinho, Maurer and Veel 2020;Christiansen 2020;Jablonowski 2020) and technological (Eriksson et al 2019;Cherpillod, Mintchev, and Floreano 2019) studies on the sensorimotor capacities of drone flight and drone vision, to date no studies have investigated the effect of drone footage with and without human bodily movement on spectators' cognitive behavioral mechanisms.…”

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Simulating drone and bodily gestures: a behavioral study

Kolesnikov¹,

Montalti²,

Calbi³

et al. 2021

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According to embodied simulation theory, humans tacitly ‘simulate’ the actions of the other by mapping them in the sensorimotor cortex of the brain. According to the framework of embodied cinema, the meaning-making process in film is considered to be inextricably linked to the interrelation between the brain, body and environment of the viewer. Athough there are a growing number of theoretical and technological studies on the embodied nature of drone flight, to date no studies have investigated the effect of drone footage with and without human bodily movement on spectators’ cognitive behavioral mechanisms. Thus, the present study investigates the relationship between Drone Movement (Ascending, Descending, Still) , Actor Presence (Female, Male, None) and Image Speed (Normal, Slow, Very Slow) on perceived motion, appeal and involvement measures. To achieve these aims, a custom-made, naturalistic set of video stimuli modeled after the staircase scene in the Soviet film The Cranes Are Flying (Kalatozov, 1957) was created using a DJI Phantom Pro 4 Drone. In the experimental task (carried out at the computer), participants were asked to rate video stimuli using a Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) ranging from 0 to 100 for perceived Duration, Liking, Movement, and Emotional and Physical Involvement. Results demonstrate that: 1) Ascending and Descending had significantly higher ratings for perceived Duration, Movement and Physical and Emotional Involvement than Still; 2) Ascending had significantly higher ratings for perceived Duration, Movement and Emotional Involvement than Descending; 3) Female and Male had significantly higher ratings for Movement, Physical Involvement and Emotional Involvement than None (No Actor); 4) Normal Image Speed had significantly higher ratings for Movement, Physical Involvement and Emotional Involvement with respect to Slow and Very Slow. Results indicate that drone/actor ascent may evoke more motion and involvement due to perceived exertion or ‘effort’ to climb up the stairs, and that participants resonate more with conspecifics and familiar repertoires, in support of embodied simulation theory. Results also indicate that movement in the drone/actor image modulates perceived time. Neuroimaging studies are needed to investiate the impact of drone movement with or without human bodily movement on cortical sensorimotor activation in the brain.

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“…While attention to the visual has dominated the drone's study (Agostinho et al, 2020), so too is it increasingly recognised that the drone's capture is not limited to ‘visual perception alone’ (Zuev & Bratchford, 2020, p. 444). In recognition that drones are both seeing and sensing craft, work has turned attention to the ‘more‐than‐optic’ sensors increasingly adorning the drone's frame (Jackman, 2017).…”

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Drone sensing volumes

Jackman

2023

Geographical Journal

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We are in the midst of a global turn to the drone. Following their establishment as icons of contemporary warfare, drones are increasingly deployed in a range of more‐than‐military applications. Interrogating this diverse ecosystem of platforms, scholars have examined the ways in which drones see, sense and manoeuvre, asserting that they enable distinct perspectives and the rendering visible of expanded and extended sensory terrains. In parallel, scholars from across and beyond the social sciences are increasingly mobilising the concept of volume to (re)consider conceptions of space in three‐, rather than two‐dimensional terms, with complex heights and depths. Thinking at the intersection of these discussions has explored drones as at once acting in, enacting, capturing and comprising volume. This paper extends these discussions by foregrounding drone sensing volumes and the diverse visualities, practices and relations they compose and comprise. Through the lens of drone sensing volumes in the context of emergency—and specifically through the snapshot example of sensing for signs of death following a homicide—the paper understands the sensor‐laden drone as a volumetric project both demonstrative of diverse sensing sensibilities and prompting a thinking otherwise of volume. While existing scholarship importantly attends to the conflict, control and calculative dimensions of volume, this paper mobilises the snapshot of drone sensing as an invitation for further attention to diverse forms of techno‐instrumentalisation, and the accommodation of more diverse drone sensing sensibilities that seek to resolve, rather than to perpetrate, volumetric violence.

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Introduction to The Sensorial Experience of the Drone

Cited by 21 publications

References 22 publications

‘Everyday droning’: Towards a feminist geopolitics of the drone-home

‘Everyday droning’: Towards a feminist geopolitics of the drone-home

Simulating drone and bodily gestures: a behavioral study

Drone sensing volumes

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