This paper presents a Wearer-Centered Framework (WCF) developed to support designing for good wearability in animal biotelemetry. Firstly, we describe the framework and the systematic process followed to develop it. Then, we report on how the WCF was evaluated with three teams of designers, who used it collaboratively to design a cat-centered tracking collar during dedicated workshops. We discuss our analysis of the designers' dialogues, whose aim was to understand the extent to which the framework informed the designers' thinking. Our findings indicate that the WCF was a useful tool to support the systematic elicitation of wearability requirements. They also suggest that designers could be provided with additional tools to support the WCF's application more effectively.
{"title":"Designing for wearability: an animal-centred framework","authors":"P. Paci, C. Mancini, B. Price","doi":"10.1145/3371049.3371051","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3371049.3371051","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a Wearer-Centered Framework (WCF) developed to support designing for good wearability in animal biotelemetry. Firstly, we describe the framework and the systematic process followed to develop it. Then, we report on how the WCF was evaluated with three teams of designers, who used it collaboratively to design a cat-centered tracking collar during dedicated workshops. We discuss our analysis of the designers' dialogues, whose aim was to understand the extent to which the framework informed the designers' thinking. Our findings indicate that the WCF was a useful tool to support the systematic elicitation of wearability requirements. They also suggest that designers could be provided with additional tools to support the WCF's application more effectively.","PeriodicalId":110764,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Animal-Computer Interaction","volume":"110 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132482528","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Participatory Design strives to open up the decision-making process and empower all those who may be affected by design. This is opposed to Design as a non-participatory process, in which the power to make decisions is vested in the hands of one group to the possible detriment of others. In this paper we interrogate the nature, possibilities and limitations of Participatory Design through the perspective of Child Computer Interaction (CCI) and Animal Computer Interaction (ACI). Due to the cognitive and communication characteristics, and to the social and legal status of their participants, researchers in these communities have to contend with and challenge existing notions of participation and design. Thus, their theories and practices provide a lens through which the nature and goals of Participatory Design can be examined with a view to facilitating the development of more inclusive participatory models and practices.
{"title":"P for Politics D for Dialogue: Reflections on Participatory Design with Children and Animals","authors":"Yoram Chisik, C. Mancini","doi":"10.1145/3371049.3371061","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3371049.3371061","url":null,"abstract":"Participatory Design strives to open up the decision-making process and empower all those who may be affected by design. This is opposed to Design as a non-participatory process, in which the power to make decisions is vested in the hands of one group to the possible detriment of others. In this paper we interrogate the nature, possibilities and limitations of Participatory Design through the perspective of Child Computer Interaction (CCI) and Animal Computer Interaction (ACI). Due to the cognitive and communication characteristics, and to the social and legal status of their participants, researchers in these communities have to contend with and challenge existing notions of participation and design. Thus, their theories and practices provide a lens through which the nature and goals of Participatory Design can be examined with a view to facilitating the development of more inclusive participatory models and practices.","PeriodicalId":110764,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Animal-Computer Interaction","volume":"1163 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134496717","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This paper aims to identify the unmet needs within the assistance canine training (ACT) industry, the limitations and barriers facing the adoption of technology, potential opportunities for the integration of technology and played by Animal Computer Interaction (ACI) within the technology industry from the perspective of the stakeholders of the industry. Interviews were conducted with various stakeholders within the canine training industry, aiming to identify and understand the impetus for change and perceived possibilities to augment canine training practices using targeted technological aids. Interviews also sought to elucidate gaps in ACI technologies that need to be explored. These interviews uncovered several intrinsic areas where technology could play an important role in canine training, as well as a number of hurdles impeding current progress towards this. Overall, stakeholder interviews indicated that expectations and behaviours of the industry align well with ACI research methodology, highlighting the benefits of implementing ACI and adapted HCI practices to assist in the development and integration of technologies for assistance canine training.
{"title":"Exploration of Technology Requirements for the Assistance Canine Training Industry","authors":"Jai Farrell, Chris McCarthy, C. Chua","doi":"10.1145/3371049.3371059","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3371049.3371059","url":null,"abstract":"This paper aims to identify the unmet needs within the assistance canine training (ACT) industry, the limitations and barriers facing the adoption of technology, potential opportunities for the integration of technology and played by Animal Computer Interaction (ACI) within the technology industry from the perspective of the stakeholders of the industry. Interviews were conducted with various stakeholders within the canine training industry, aiming to identify and understand the impetus for change and perceived possibilities to augment canine training practices using targeted technological aids. Interviews also sought to elucidate gaps in ACI technologies that need to be explored. These interviews uncovered several intrinsic areas where technology could play an important role in canine training, as well as a number of hurdles impeding current progress towards this. Overall, stakeholder interviews indicated that expectations and behaviours of the industry align well with ACI research methodology, highlighting the benefits of implementing ACI and adapted HCI practices to assist in the development and integration of technologies for assistance canine training.","PeriodicalId":110764,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Animal-Computer Interaction","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129791768","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sean P. Mealin, Zach Cleghern, Marc Foster, A. Bozkurt, D. Roberts
Training a guide dog is a long and expensive process which involves experts with years of experience. At Guiding Eyes for the Blind, a large national guide dog school, a factor in the decision for whether a dog is suitable to continue training are numeric scores based on a subjective judgement during observation of the dog as it undergoes formal evaluations. As a step towards a more objective system, we outfitted dogs undergoing these evaluations with a data collection system capable of collecting electrocardiography and other data. Using both a prototype network and an optimized network, we show that electrocardiography data can be used to predict 29 behavioral scores with approximately 92% accuracy over 11 distinct tasks during the evaluation. Additionally, we show that each of the 11 tasks can predict any of the scores, indicating that the most predictive features in the data may be task agnostic.
训练导盲犬是一个漫长而昂贵的过程，需要有多年经验的专家。在大型国家导盲犬学校“导盲眼”(Guiding Eyes for the Blind)，决定一只狗是否适合继续训练的一个因素是，在对狗进行正式评估时，通过观察狗的主观判断得出的数字分数。作为迈向更客观系统的一步，我们为接受这些评估的狗配备了能够收集心电图和其他数据的数据收集系统。使用原型网络和优化网络，我们表明心电图数据可以用于预测评估过程中11个不同任务的29个行为分数，准确率约为92%。此外，我们表明11个任务中的每一个都可以预测任何分数，这表明数据中最具预测性的特征可能是任务不可知的。
{"title":"Predicting Guide Dog Temperament Evaluation Outcomes Using Raw ECG Signals","authors":"Sean P. Mealin, Zach Cleghern, Marc Foster, A. Bozkurt, D. Roberts","doi":"10.1145/3371049.3371053","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3371049.3371053","url":null,"abstract":"Training a guide dog is a long and expensive process which involves experts with years of experience. At Guiding Eyes for the Blind, a large national guide dog school, a factor in the decision for whether a dog is suitable to continue training are numeric scores based on a subjective judgement during observation of the dog as it undergoes formal evaluations. As a step towards a more objective system, we outfitted dogs undergoing these evaluations with a data collection system capable of collecting electrocardiography and other data. Using both a prototype network and an optimized network, we show that electrocardiography data can be used to predict 29 behavioral scores with approximately 92% accuracy over 11 distinct tasks during the evaluation. Additionally, we show that each of the 11 tasks can predict any of the scores, indicating that the most predictive features in the data may be task agnostic.","PeriodicalId":110764,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Animal-Computer Interaction","volume":"69 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130979584","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In this one-day workshop we aimed to delve into what it means to be a non-human animal in the city and how digital technology and the notions of play, can play a part in supporting, enhancing and advancing non-human animal life in the city. We invited researchers and practitioners to submit idea, concept, speculative or position papers related to theoretical, methodological, technological or practical aspects of these questions and to participate in discussing, debating and exploring the core issues and setting the stage for future collaboration. The workshop was held at the Haifa Educational Zoo and day was divided into two parts, with the first devoted to presentations and discussions and the second to ideation and creative exploration of the zoo and its inhabitants.
{"title":"Animals and the (Playable) City: A Critical Perspective","authors":"Yoram Chisik, A. Nijholt","doi":"10.1145/3371049.3371068","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3371049.3371068","url":null,"abstract":"In this one-day workshop we aimed to delve into what it means to be a non-human animal in the city and how digital technology and the notions of play, can play a part in supporting, enhancing and advancing non-human animal life in the city. We invited researchers and practitioners to submit idea, concept, speculative or position papers related to theoretical, methodological, technological or practical aspects of these questions and to participate in discussing, debating and exploring the core issues and setting the stage for future collaboration. The workshop was held at the Haifa Educational Zoo and day was divided into two parts, with the first devoted to presentations and discussions and the second to ideation and creative exploration of the zoo and its inhabitants.","PeriodicalId":110764,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Animal-Computer Interaction","volume":"159 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124807660","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yoav Golan, Amir Shapiro, I. Nisky, Ben Serota, O. Shriki
Dogs are extremely common in the modern world, as pets or to help us as work animals. Despite their increasing popularity in both forms, our methods of communicating with them have not advanced much since their domestication. For even the most extensively trained working dogs, we rely on audial and visual cues to convey commands. In this work, we show that dogs can understand haptic cues. A vest embedded with vibration motors was designed to be worn by a dog. We trained a dog to associate four different types of vibrations with different commands, with good results. The dog successfully distinguished between vibrations, differing either in location or vibration type. Haptic communication can be used with working dogs or pets remotely, even in very noisy environments. It could also be used to communicate with deaf dogs, or facilitate communication between a pet and its speech-impaired owner.
{"title":"Dogs Can Understand Haptic Communication","authors":"Yoav Golan, Amir Shapiro, I. Nisky, Ben Serota, O. Shriki","doi":"10.1145/3371049.3371066","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3371049.3371066","url":null,"abstract":"Dogs are extremely common in the modern world, as pets or to help us as work animals. Despite their increasing popularity in both forms, our methods of communicating with them have not advanced much since their domestication. For even the most extensively trained working dogs, we rely on audial and visual cues to convey commands. In this work, we show that dogs can understand haptic cues. A vest embedded with vibration motors was designed to be worn by a dog. We trained a dog to associate four different types of vibrations with different commands, with good results. The dog successfully distinguished between vibrations, differing either in location or vibration type. Haptic communication can be used with working dogs or pets remotely, even in very noisy environments. It could also be used to communicate with deaf dogs, or facilitate communication between a pet and its speech-impaired owner.","PeriodicalId":110764,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Animal-Computer Interaction","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121335281","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Marc Foster, Tarik Agcayazi, M. T. Agcayazi, Tianfu Wu, M. Gruen, D. Roberts, A. Bozkurt
In many of the applications involving working canines, such as search and rescue operations and agriculture, drones are increasing in ubiquity. There has been some recent focus on training dogs to follow or interact with drones in such applications. From the Animal Computer Interaction (ACI) perspective, drones have the potential to monitor the dog's welfare when handlers are not in close proximity in such harsh environments. Our on going work has focused on canine welfare through the use of on-body sensors for monitoring behavior, physiology, and the micro-environment dogs are in. We have also used these technologies to explore computer-assisted training of canines and more recently included drones to complement these to assess the macro-environment dogs are working in. This work discusses the challenges and opportunities we learned during our efforts to include drones for computer-assisted interactions with working dogs. We focus on the enabling technology and it's implications for ACI when dogs and drones work together.
{"title":"Preliminary Evaluation of Dog-Drone Technological Interfaces: Challenges and Opportunities","authors":"Marc Foster, Tarik Agcayazi, M. T. Agcayazi, Tianfu Wu, M. Gruen, D. Roberts, A. Bozkurt","doi":"10.1145/3371049.3371065","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3371049.3371065","url":null,"abstract":"In many of the applications involving working canines, such as search and rescue operations and agriculture, drones are increasing in ubiquity. There has been some recent focus on training dogs to follow or interact with drones in such applications. From the Animal Computer Interaction (ACI) perspective, drones have the potential to monitor the dog's welfare when handlers are not in close proximity in such harsh environments. Our on going work has focused on canine welfare through the use of on-body sensors for monitoring behavior, physiology, and the micro-environment dogs are in. We have also used these technologies to explore computer-assisted training of canines and more recently included drones to complement these to assess the macro-environment dogs are working in. This work discusses the challenges and opportunities we learned during our efforts to include drones for computer-assisted interactions with working dogs. We focus on the enabling technology and it's implications for ACI when dogs and drones work together.","PeriodicalId":110764,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Animal-Computer Interaction","volume":"75 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121502267","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pet wearables are increasingly prevalent, with many incorporating location-tracking functionalities, which may reveal privacy-sensitive data about their owners' daily patterns. Typically, these devices are designed for cat (felis catus) or dog (canis familiaris) usage. However, the difference between cat and dog owners in how they interact with their pets, and the relationship they have with them may lead to differences in the perceived sensitivity of, and requirements for, the way these pet wearables should handle pet location data. We present the results of an empirical between-groups study (N=180) investigating whether cat and dog owners' information privacy concerns for pet location data differ. We also explore the role played by the pet-human bond in this context. Our findings indicate that there is a significant (p<0.01) difference in bonding between cat and dog owners explained by co-sleeping and closeness factors, which leads to a significant correlation (r=0.26) found only among dog owners between the strength of their bonding and their perceived importance of how the collected pet location data is used (p<0.05). We demonstrate that the relationship to our pets, not their species per sé has an impact on the privacy concerns held towards data collected via wearables. These findings have implications for the design of privacy-respectful pet wearables, emphasizing the need to understand how sensor-driven technology's privacy impact is mediated by the way we interact with different species. We discuss what explanations may underlie these findings and to what extent, and how, manufacturers and policy should take such differences into account.
{"title":"The not so secret life of pets: pet owners' privacy concerns for pet location data","authors":"D. Linden, Brittany I. Davidson, A. Zamansky","doi":"10.1145/3371049.3371052","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3371049.3371052","url":null,"abstract":"Pet wearables are increasingly prevalent, with many incorporating location-tracking functionalities, which may reveal privacy-sensitive data about their owners' daily patterns. Typically, these devices are designed for cat (felis catus) or dog (canis familiaris) usage. However, the difference between cat and dog owners in how they interact with their pets, and the relationship they have with them may lead to differences in the perceived sensitivity of, and requirements for, the way these pet wearables should handle pet location data. We present the results of an empirical between-groups study (N=180) investigating whether cat and dog owners' information privacy concerns for pet location data differ. We also explore the role played by the pet-human bond in this context. Our findings indicate that there is a significant (p<0.01) difference in bonding between cat and dog owners explained by co-sleeping and closeness factors, which leads to a significant correlation (r=0.26) found only among dog owners between the strength of their bonding and their perceived importance of how the collected pet location data is used (p<0.05). We demonstrate that the relationship to our pets, not their species per sé has an impact on the privacy concerns held towards data collected via wearables. These findings have implications for the design of privacy-respectful pet wearables, emphasizing the need to understand how sensor-driven technology's privacy impact is mediated by the way we interact with different species. We discuss what explanations may underlie these findings and to what extent, and how, manufacturers and policy should take such differences into account.","PeriodicalId":110764,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Animal-Computer Interaction","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129367084","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pet wearables increasing popularity on the market places them also in the spotlight of ACI research. Recent studies have shown that they have the potential to impact the human-pet bond, improve caregiving and increase the motivation of owners' for physical exercising with their pets. Thus pet wearables provide pets with a 'digital voice' to speak up about their needs more clearly. Despite this benefit, the adoption rate of pet wearables nowhere near that of human wearables. This paper aims to better understand the barriers towards their adoption. To this end, we present the results of a study (N=200) with pet owners investigating their amotivations, e.g., reasons for not purchasing or using a pet wearable. Our findings indicate that users are first and foremost focused on cost and durability of the devices. We present a detailed qualitative analysis of the different reasons that pet owners hold, visualizing them as a map of trade-offs that pet owners consider. Finally, we reflect on our findings in the context of the ACI agenda.
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