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