TY - GEN
T1 - UbiComp for animal welfare
T2 - 2014 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, UbiComp 2014
AU - Mancini, Clara
AU - Van Der Linden, Janet
AU - Kortuem, Gerd
AU - Dewsbury, Guy
AU - Mills, Daniel
AU - Boyden, Paula
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - Whilst the ubicomp community has successfully embraced a number of societal challenges for human benefit, including healthcare and sustainability, the well-being of other animals is hitherto underrepresented. We argue that ubicomp technologies, including sensing and monitoring devices as well as tangible and embodied interfaces, could make a valuable contribution to animal welfare. This paper particularly focuses on dogs in kenneled accommodation, as we investigate the opportunities and challenges for a smart kennel aiming to foster canine welfare. We conducted an indepth ethnographic study of a dog rehoming center over four months; based on our findings, we propose a welfarecentered framework for designing smart environments, integrating monitoring and interaction with information management. We discuss the methodological issues we encountered during the research and propose a smart ethnographic approach for similar projects.
AB - Whilst the ubicomp community has successfully embraced a number of societal challenges for human benefit, including healthcare and sustainability, the well-being of other animals is hitherto underrepresented. We argue that ubicomp technologies, including sensing and monitoring devices as well as tangible and embodied interfaces, could make a valuable contribution to animal welfare. This paper particularly focuses on dogs in kenneled accommodation, as we investigate the opportunities and challenges for a smart kennel aiming to foster canine welfare. We conducted an indepth ethnographic study of a dog rehoming center over four months; based on our findings, we propose a welfarecentered framework for designing smart environments, integrating monitoring and interaction with information management. We discuss the methodological issues we encountered during the research and propose a smart ethnographic approach for similar projects.
KW - Ambient interactivity
KW - Animal welfare
KW - Information management
KW - Pervasive monitoring
KW - Smart kennel
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84908568792&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/2632048.2632073
DO - 10.1145/2632048.2632073
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84908568792
T3 - UbiComp 2014 - Proceedings of the 2014 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing
SP - 117
EP - 128
BT - UbiComp 2014 - Proceedings of the 2014 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing
PB - Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Y2 - 13 September 2014 through 17 September 2014
ER -
