Environment
The general agreement received from the users’ responses
was that this concept can be useful, however, having such
drones hovering in our environment and urban cities might
cause issues such as distraction, space pollution/crowd and
noise. In addition, safety and privacy issues are major concerns
which we discuss in the following section. Further,
some participants thought that having flying drones does not
seem to be a natural, expected or realistic process to clean the
environment as it possibly comes from fictional modern societies.
This was seen in one statement when a participant was
asked if they would want to have such a drone in their environment
- “I wouldn’t; because it reminds me of modernism
and obligation rather than nature and spontaneity”. Another
said that “When I saw the video I remembered “Mo” from the
Wall-E movie, that it was all the time cleaning”. In summary,
we believe that drones are a novel and unique technology and
will require gradual assimilation into our daily lives.