The Death and Lives of hitchBOT: The Design and Implementation of a Hitchhiking Robot

Smith, D. H.; Zeller, F.

doi:10.1162/LEON_a_01354

All Outputs (3)

Virtual Worlds for Facilitating Urban Development Dialogue (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Harris Smith, D., Zeller, F., Eyles, J., Silva de Jesus, D., Dwyer, L., & Eyles, E. (2017). Virtual Worlds for Facilitating Urban Development Dialogue. In J. P. Bowen, G. Diprose, & N. Lambert (Eds.), EVA '17: Proceedings of the conference on Electronic Visualisation and the Arts (109-111). https://doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2017.25

Tracking the imagined audience: A case study on Nike’s use of Twitter for B2C interaction (2017)
Journal Article
Au Duong, J., & Zeller, F. (2017). Tracking the imagined audience: A case study on Nike’s use of Twitter for B2C interaction. First Monday, 22(5), 1-21. https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v22i5.6607

Social media platforms have become the new centre of attention in business-to-consumer (B2C) communication. These interactions provide a rich source of information for businesses in terms of their customers’ preferences, backgrounds and behaviour. We... Read More about Tracking the imagined audience: A case study on Nike’s use of Twitter for B2C interaction.

The Death and Lives of hitchBOT: The Design and Implementation of a Hitchhiking Robot (2017)
Journal Article
Smith, D. H., & Zeller, F. (2017). The Death and Lives of hitchBOT: The Design and Implementation of a Hitchhiking Robot. Leonardo, 50(1), 77-78. https://doi.org/10.1162/LEON_a_01354

In the early morning hours of 1 August 2015, as it waited for its next ride on a Philly park bench, unknown assailants destroyed hitchBOT. Arms torn from its body, legs broken, gutted of its electronics, it was left discarded in a park, minus its smi... Read More about The Death and Lives of hitchBOT: The Design and Implementation of a Hitchhiking Robot.