Understanding the Interaction Between Animals and Wearables

Paci, Patrizia; Mancini, Clara; Price, Bob

doi:10.1145/3357236.3395546

Cited by 11 publications

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“…One popular dichotomy made by Lawson et al [29] is the appropriation of Baumer's [4] term usees, where animals are imposed into using systems unknowingly. This is contradictory to the standard definition of users, where animals are seen as directly controlling systems [39]. As this dissection implies, an animal's role has implications on their agency in computer systems.…”

Section: Animals As Users Of Interactive Systemsmentioning

confidence: 85%

Forming the Dog Internet

Hirskyj-Douglas

Piitulainen

Lucero

2021

Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact.

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Over the past decade, many systems have been developed for humans to remotely connect to their pets at home. Yet little attention has been paid to how animals can control such systems and what the implications are of animals using internet systems. This paper explores the creation of a video call device to allow a dog to remotely call their human, giving the animal control and agency over technology in their home. After building and prototyping a novel interaction method over several weeks and iterations, we test our system with a dog and a human. Analysing our experience and data, we reflect on power relations, how to quantify an animal's user experience and what interactive internet systems look like with animal users. This paper builds upon Human-Computer Interaction methods for unconventional users, uncovering key questions that advance the creation of animal-to-human interfaces and animal internet devices.

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Section: Animals As Users Of Interactive Systemsmentioning

confidence: 85%

Forming the Dog Internet

Hirskyj-Douglas

Piitulainen

Lucero

2021

Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact.

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“…Biotelemetry devices have also been common for a long time. However, their use can cause interference and injury (Paci et al, 2020).…”

Section: Machines As Parts Of Systemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Passive, Active, and Proactive Systems and Machines for the Protection and Preservation of Animals and Animal Species

Bendel

2022

Front. Anim. Sci.

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Digitalization and automation are expanding into many areas, resulting in more widespread use of partially and fully autonomous machines and robots. At the same time, environmental and other crises and disasters are on the rise, the world population is growing, and animals are losing their habitat. Increasingly, machines and robots such as agricultural vehicles, autonomous cars, robotic lawnmowers, or social robots are encountering animals of all kinds. In the process, the latter are injured or killed. Some machines can be designed so that this does not happen. Relevant disciplines and research areas briefly introduced here are machine ethics, social robotics, animal-machine interaction, and animal-computer interaction. In addition, animal welfare is important. Passive and active machines—as they are called in this review—are already appearing and help to observe and protect animals. Proactive machines may play a role in the future. They could use the possibilities of full automation and autonomy to save animals from suffering in agriculture or in the wild. During crises and disasters and in extensive nature reserves, they could observe, care for, and protect animals. The review provides initial considerations on active, passive, and proactive machines and how they can be used in an animal preservation context while bearing in mind recent technical and global developments.

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“…The human, who initiated the communication in the first place by attaching and starting the device, does not reply. The same tracking device may inadvertently be sending a visual signal which differentiates the wearer from other individuals [47,64]. Depending on the species involved and on the device design, this may alter social interactions, attract predators or alter the wearer's movements.…”

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Ethics and Power Dynamics in Playful Technology for Animals

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Hirskyj-Douglas

Väätäjä

et al. 2021

Academic Mindtrek 2021

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Technology (digital or otherwise) is a great enabler; it bridges gaps and opens doors and, in the process, alters the reality within which it and its users exist. As technology aimed at non-human animals is becoming commonplace, questions about its efficacy and the ethical implications of its use are becoming ever more pertinent. To explore these issues, we conducted a workshop in which speculative design was used as a means of debating ways through which play, a widespread phenomenon across animal species, can be used as a tool for enabling interspecies communication. We describe the context for this discussion, the methods used, and present a set of speculative designs that illustrate aspects of ethics, equality, and appropriate play in order to provoke further reflection and discussion. CCS CONCEPTS• Social and professional topics -User characteristics • Humancentered computing -Interaction design -Interaction design theory, concepts and paradigms

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Understanding the Interaction Between Animals and Wearables

Cited by 11 publications

References 28 publications

Forming the Dog Internet

Forming the Dog Internet

Passive, Active, and Proactive Systems and Machines for the Protection and Preservation of Animals and Animal Species

Ethics and Power Dynamics in Playful Technology for Animals

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