Guide dog versus robot dog: assembling visually impaired people with non-human agents and achieving assisted mobility through distributed co-constructed perception

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Guide dog versus robot dog : assembling visually impaired people with non-human agents and achieving assisted mobility through distributed co-constructed perception. / Due, Brian Lystgaard.

In: Mobilities, Vol. 18, No. 1, 2022, p. 148-166.

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Harvard

Due, BL 2022, 'Guide dog versus robot dog: assembling visually impaired people with non-human agents and achieving assisted mobility through distributed co-constructed perception', Mobilities, vol. 18, no. 1, pp. 148-166. https://doi.org/10.1080/17450101.2022.2086059

APA

Due, B. L. (2022). Guide dog versus robot dog: assembling visually impaired people with non-human agents and achieving assisted mobility through distributed co-constructed perception. Mobilities, 18(1), 148-166. https://doi.org/10.1080/17450101.2022.2086059

Vancouver

Due BL. Guide dog versus robot dog: assembling visually impaired people with non-human agents and achieving assisted mobility through distributed co-constructed perception. Mobilities. 2022;18(1):148-166. https://doi.org/10.1080/17450101.2022.2086059

Author

Due, Brian Lystgaard. / Guide dog versus robot dog : assembling visually impaired people with non-human agents and achieving assisted mobility through distributed co-constructed perception. In: Mobilities. 2022 ; Vol. 18, No. 1. pp. 148-166.

Bibtex

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