Levelling playing field: synchronization and rapid facial mimicry in dog-horse play

Maglieri, Veronica; Bigozzi, Filippo; Riccobono, Marco Germain; Palagi, Elisabetta

doi:10.1016/j.beproc.2020.104104

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“…Interspecies play is manifest in human relationships with domesticated dogs, where it is evidence of a mutual ability to read each other's signals [34,73]. Play also occurs between humans and other domesticated species, such as cats [55]and horses [65], while playful experiences have been observed between various nonhuman species, including primates [74], dogs with horses [46] and dolphins with whales [16]. As noted in our earlier work [23]:…”

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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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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 93%

Ethics and Power Dynamics in Playful Technology for Animals

French

Hirskyj-Douglas

Väätäjä

et al. 2021

Academic Mindtrek 2021

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“…Social play is a window on cognitive and communicative abilities of species (148,149). The PLAY system is thought to provide fundamental learning experiences of emotional coregulation leading to higher forms of empathy.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Interspecific play in particular is a fertile venue to explore the capacity to correctly perceive and interpret signals emitted by partners (148). Porges (152) defines interactive play as a neural exercise which requires synchronous and reciprocal behaviors between individuals as well as an awareness of the level of social engagement of each individual.…”

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confidence: 99%

Integrative Model of Human-Animal Interactions: A One Health–One Welfare Systemic Approach to Studying HAI

Leconstant

Spitz²

2022

Front. Vet. Sci.

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The Integrative Model of Human-Animal Interactions (IMHAI) described herewith provides a conceptual framework for the study of interspecies interactions and aims to model the primary emotional processes involved in human-animal interactions. This model was developed from theoretical inputs from three fundamental disciplines for understanding interspecies interactions: neuroscience, psychology and ethology, with the objective of providing a transdisciplinary approach on which field professionals and researchers can build and collaborate. Seminal works in affective neuroscience offer a common basis between humans and animals and, as such, can be applied to the study of interspecies interactions from a One Health-One Welfare perspective. On the one hand, Jaak Panksepp's research revealed that primary/basic emotions originate in the deep subcortical regions of the brain and are shared by all mammals, including humans. On the other hand, several works in the field of neuroscience show that the basic physiological state is largely determined by the perception of safety. Thus, emotional expression reflects the state of an individual's permanent adaptation to ever-changing environmental demands. Based on this evidence and over 5 years of action research using grounded theory, alternating between research and practice, the IMHAI proposes a systemic approach to the study of primary-process emotional affects during interspecies social interactions, through the processes of emotional transfer, embodied communication and interactive emotional regulation. IMHAI aims to generate new hypotheses and predictions on affective behavior and interspecies communication. Application of such a model should promote risk prevention and the establishment of positive links between humans and animals thereby contributing to their respective wellbeing.

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“…This phenomenon is thought to allow for a quick communication with other members of the group about important aspects of the physical and the social environment (e.g., physiological internal states like arousal due to food availability or fear due to predator presence). For instance, in different species of mammals, mimicry has been found to be associated with socially relevant facial displays, such as the play face ( Palagi et al, 2020 ), which is assumed to communicate a playful mood ( Palagi et al, 2019 ) even when phylogenetically distant species play together (e.g., Maglieri et al, 2020 ). Motor resonance is also communicative because it affects how individuals perceive their surroundings.…”

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Collective Rhythm as an Emergent Property During Human Social Coordination

Farrera

Ramos‐Fernández

2022

Front. Psychol.

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The literature on social interactions has shown that participants coordinate not only at the behavioral but also at the physiological and neural levels, and that this coordination gives a temporal structure to the individual and social dynamics. However, it has not been fully explored whether such temporal patterns emerge during interpersonal coordination beyond dyads, whether this phenomenon arises from complex cognitive mechanisms or from relatively simple rules of behavior, or which are the sociocultural processes that underlie this phenomenon. We review the evidence for the existence of group-level rhythmic patterns that result from social interactions and argue that the complexity of group dynamics can lead to temporal regularities that cannot be predicted from the individual periodicities: an emergent collective rhythm. Moreover, we use this interpretation of the literature to discuss how taking into account the sociocultural niche in which individuals develop can help explain the seemingly divergent results that have been reported on the social influences and consequences of interpersonal coordination. We make recommendations on further research to test these arguments and their relationship to the feeling of belonging and assimilation experienced during group dynamics.

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Levelling playing field: synchronization and rapid facial mimicry in dog-horse play

Cited by 17 publications

References 77 publications

Ethics and Power Dynamics in Playful Technology for Animals

Ethics and Power Dynamics in Playful Technology for Animals

Integrative Model of Human-Animal Interactions: A One Health–One Welfare Systemic Approach to Studying HAI

Collective Rhythm as an Emergent Property During Human Social Coordination

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