FarmJam 2017

French, Fiona; Baskin, Sofya; Wallace, Billy; Cheok, Adrian David; Zamanzky, Anna; Nannoni, Eleonora

doi:10.1145/3152130.3152154

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“…Increasingly, there is a trend in ACI towards creating playful systems. Within this scope, definitions have been given for playful interfaces [25] as well as methods emerging for both the design of systems by humans [9] and designing with the target species [30] [8] [32]. Pons et al [24] define playful technologies as 'animal-centered ecosystems with intelligent capabilities which is able to learn from the animals' behaviors and interactions, using the acquired knowledge to adapt itself to the context'.…”

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Designing Technologies for Playful Interspecies Communication

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Hirskyj-Douglas

Väätäjä

2020

Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Animal-Computer Interaction

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This one-day workshop examines how we might use technologies to support design for playful interspecies communication and considers some of the potential implications. Here we explore aspects of playful technology and reflect on what opportunities computers can provide for facilitating communication between species. The workshop's focal activity will be the co-creation of some theoretical systems designed for specific multi-species scenarios. Through our activities, we aim to pave the way for designing technology that promotes interspecies communication, drawing input not only from ACI practitioners but also from those of the broader HCI and animal science community, who may be stakeholders in facilitating, expanding, and/or redefining playful technology.

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Designing Technologies for Playful Interspecies Communication

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Hirskyj-Douglas

Väätäjä

2020

Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Animal-Computer Interaction

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“…Animal-Computer Interaction (ACI) is a growing field that seeks to improve animal lives in various situations and environments through technologies [15]. These systems for animals range from technologies for working animals [33,34], tracking and monitoring systems [7], and games and playful systems [10] ranging for farm animals [11,37], wild animals [20], pets [40], and zoo animals [39]. Overall, these contexts and users, one central aim of the ACI field is to make these systems animal-centered by including the animal at the center of the design [26].…”

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Developing Zoo Technology Requirements for White-Faced Saki Monkeys

Hirskyj-Douglas

Piitulainen

2020

Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Animal-Computer Interaction

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How early technology requirements are formed for animals involves asking humans caring for the animal to give requirements for them. For zoo animals, this is the keeper and other experts who work with the animal. This requirement gathering process is used as a method of forming user-centric designs for systems for animals. Yet little attention has been paid towards how to form these early requirements in zoos or whom to gather these from. Addressing this, we investigate how to construct technology requirements for the zoo housed animals, using white-faced saki monkeys as an instance. Utilizing the method of questionnaires, we gather requirements from zoo keepers and zoo visitors. Comparing and analyzing our results, we reveal how requirements for animal-technology in zoo contexts diverge and intersect. Our data indicates that these vantages mostly align; with the zoo visitors focusing upon the aesthetics and keepers concentrating on practicalities. Overarching these, we note how requirements in proxy for animals often involves a synthesis of complex motivations, user narratives, vantage points, and prior technology and animal experience that is irreparably intertwined within the requirement process. This paper builds upon requirement gathering methods for unconventional users.

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Interspecies information systems

Linden

2021

Requirements Eng

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This article introduces a new class of socio-technical systems, interspecies information systems (IIS) by describing several examples of these systems emerging through the use of commercially available data-driven animal-centered technology. When animal-centered technology, such as pet wearables, cow health monitoring, or even wildlife drones captures animal data and inform humans of actions to take towards animals, interspecies information systems emerge. I discuss the importance of understanding them as information systems rather than isolated technology or technology-mediated interactions, and propose a conceptual model capturing the key components and information flow of a general interspecies information system. I conclude by proposing multiple practical challenges that are faced in the successful design, engineering and use of any IIS where animal data informs human actions.

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FarmJam 2017

Cited by 7 publications

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Designing Technologies for Playful Interspecies Communication

Designing Technologies for Playful Interspecies Communication

Developing Zoo Technology Requirements for White-Faced Saki Monkeys

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