Hum-ble Beginnings: Developing Touch- and Proximity-Input-Based Interfaces for Zoo-Housed Giraffes’ Audio EnrichmentHonorable Mention
Though computer systems have entered widespread use for animals' enrichment in zoos, no interactive computer systems suited to giraffes have yet been developed. Hence, which input modes or audio stimuli giraffes might best utilise remains unknown. To address this issue and probe development of such systems alongside the animals themselves and zookeepers, researchers gathered requirements from the keepers and from prototyping with giraffes, then created two interfaces – one touch-based and one proximity-based – that play giraffe-humming audio or white noise when activated. Over two months of observation, giraffes utilised the proximity-based system more frequently than the touch-based one but in shorter episodes. Secondly, the study highlighted the significance of considering user-specific needs in computer systems' development: the lack of preference shown for any specific audio type indicates that the audio stimuli chosen were inappropriate for these giraffes. In addition, the paper articulates several lessons that can be drawn from human–computer interaction when one develops systems for animals and, in turn, what the findings presented mean for humans.
Wed 8 NovDisplayed time zone: Eastern Time (US & Canada) change
11:00 - 12:15 | Session 6: Immersion, Audio, and MultimediaPapers at Schenley Ballroom Chair(s): Tigmanshu Bhatnagar | ||
11:00 25mTalk | Embodied Provenance for Immersive Sensemaking Papers A: Yidan Zhang Monash University, A: Barrett Ens Monash University, A: Kadek Satriadi Monash University, A: Ying Yang Monash University, A: Sarah Goodwin Monash DOI Media Attached | ||
11:25 25mTalk | Hum-ble Beginnings: Developing Touch- and Proximity-Input-Based Interfaces for Zoo-Housed Giraffes’ Audio EnrichmentHonorable Mention Papers A: Alana Grant University of Glasgow, A: Vilma Kankaanpää University of Glasgow, A: Ilyena Hirskyj-Douglas University of Glasgow DOI | ||
11:50 25mTalk | Interactive 3D Annotation of Objects in Moving Videos from Sparse Multi-view Frames Papers A: Kotaro Oomori The University of Tokyo, A: Wataru Kawabe The University of Tokyo, A: Fabrice Matulic Preferred Networks, A: Takeo Igarashi The University of Tokyo, A: Keita Higuchi Preferred Networks DOI |