Supporting interspecies social awareness: using peripheral displays for distributed pack awareness

  • Authors:
  • Demi Mankoff;Anind Dey;Jennifer Mankoff;Ken Mankoff

  • Affiliations:
  • Non-working, contributing member of society;Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA;Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA;Columbia University

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 18th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

In interspecies households, it is common for the non homo sapien members to be isolated and ignored for many hours each day when humans are out of the house or working. For pack animals, such as canines, information about a pack member's extended pack interactions (outside of the nuclear household) could help to mitigate this social isolation. We have developed a Pack Activity Watch System: Allowing Broad Interspecies Love In Telecommunication with Internet-Enabled Sociability (PAWSABILITIES) for helping to support remote awareness of social activities. Our work focuses on canine companions, and includes, pawticipatory design, labradory tests, and canid camera monitoring.