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In a Flap: Experiences with a Bioinspired Flying Robot
Wang, Ziming; Loerakker, Meagan; Wu, Yiqian et al.
2025In Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, 9 (3), p. 1-20
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Keywords :
Human-drone interaction; bioinspired robots; flapping-wing drone; technology diversity
Abstract :
[en] While the proliferation of civil drones has led to increasingly diverse designs, research on Human-Drone Interaction (HDI) has largely focused on rotorcraft, but interacting with flapping-wing drones remain underexplored. To address this gap, we present the first study to investigate how humans experience a bioinspired flapping-wing drone compared to a similar-sized quadcopter. We conducted a mixed-methods study (N = 56) using a within-subject 2×2×2 factorial design to examine the effects of drone design, proxemic distance, and human posture on perceptions of safety, pleasure, discomfort, and unexpectedness. Participants had mixed feelings about the bioinspired flapper, finding it newfangled, entertaining, and inspiring, but also unsafe and unclear in its potential use cases. They also associated the flapper with animals ranging from insects to birds to bats. Our findings have important implications for HDI and future bioinspired drone development, including scaling the drone's physical dimensions to its context and purpose, enhancing control and stability, and aligning its form with familiar species archetypes, which in turn should be guided by its context and role.
Disciplines :
Social & behavioral sciences, psychology: Multidisciplinary, general & others
Author, co-author :
Wang, Ziming  ;  University of Luxembourg ; Chalmers University of Technology
Loerakker, Meagan;  TU Wien
Wu, Yiqian;  Chalmers University of Technology
Yang, Shiwei;  University of Gothenburg
Pons, Arion;  Chalmers University of Technology
CHUAI, Yuwei ;  University of Luxembourg > Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SNT) > IRiSC
Sirkin, David;  SU - Stanford University
Fjeld, Morten;  Chalmers University of Technology ; UiB - University of Bergen
External co-authors :
yes
Language :
English
Title :
In a Flap: Experiences with a Bioinspired Flying Robot
Publication date :
03 September 2025
Journal title :
Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies
eISSN :
2474-9567
Publisher :
Association for Computing Machinery, New York, United States - New York
Volume :
9
Issue :
3
Pages :
1-20
Peer reviewed :
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi
Focus Area :
Computational Sciences
Funders :
Marianne and Marcus Wallenberg Foundation
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