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In every sphere of human life, its proper quality is important. Therefore, quality of life is of interest to various fields of knowledge, including philosophy, psychology, sociology, medicine, etc. The quality of life also is important for engineers who have an impact on the technosphere, i.e., technical means whose features (construction, operational, condition and ergonomic), determine the quality of human life – user or operator of the given technical mean. Shaping these features at the stages of the life cyc...

The city environment surrounds its inhabitants with various technical means that support them every day. These means include unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), that is drones. The presence of drones in cities, including smart cities, may cause controversy among residents related to the threat to the safety of using drones, interference with privacy, emitted sounds, monitoring, and other discomfort. Therefore, in the stage of increasing drone prevalence of the use in smart cities, the social perception of them by res...