Animal Computer Interaction

This note is about the subfield of animal-computer interaction. This field does not typically consider the issues of justice explicitly and can appear as an instrumentation of unfair relationships to animals. Still, it is a relevant precedent to Interspecies Design and the general concept of Interspecies.

Co-designing with orangutans for enrichment in a zoo:

Sarah Webber et al., ‘Co-Designing with Orangutans: Enhancing the Design of Enrichment for Animals’, in Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference, ed. Ron Wakkary and Kristina Andersen, (New York: Association for Computing Machinery, 2020), 1713–25, https://doi.org/10/gj884r.

Types of technologies:

  • Tangible & Physical technologies
  • Haptic & Wearable technologies
  • Olfactory interfaces
  • Screenbased interfaces
  • Tracking technologies