UbiComp for animal welfare: Envisioning smart environments for kenneled dogs

Clara Mancini; Janet Van Der Linden; Gerd Kortuem; Guy Dewsbury; Daniel Mills; Paula Boyden

doi:10.1145/2632048.2632073

UbiComp for animal welfare: Envisioning smart environments for kenneled dogs

Clara Mancini^*, Janet Van Der Linden, Gerd Kortuem, Guy Dewsbury, Daniel Mills, Paula Boyden

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	UbiComp 2014 - Proceedings of the 2014 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Pages	117-128
Number of pages	12
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450329682
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2632048.2632073
Publication status	Published - 2014
Externally published	Yes
Event	2014 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, UbiComp 2014 - Seattle, United States Duration: 13 Sept 2014 → 17 Sept 2014

Publication series

Name	UbiComp 2014 - Proceedings of the 2014 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing

Conference

Conference	2014 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, UbiComp 2014
Country/Territory	United States
City	Seattle
Period	13/09/14 → 17/09/14

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being

Keywords

Ambient interactivity
Animal welfare
Information management
Pervasive monitoring
Smart kennel

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Mancini, C., Van Der Linden, J., Kortuem, G., Dewsbury, G., Mills, D., & Boyden, P. (2014). UbiComp for animal welfare: Envisioning smart environments for kenneled dogs. In UbiComp 2014 - Proceedings of the 2014 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (pp. 117-128). (UbiComp 2014 - Proceedings of the 2014 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing). Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). https://doi.org/10.1145/2632048.2632073

Mancini, Clara ; Van Der Linden, Janet ; Kortuem, Gerd et al. / UbiComp for animal welfare : Envisioning smart environments for kenneled dogs. UbiComp 2014 - Proceedings of the 2014 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2014. pp. 117-128 (UbiComp 2014 - Proceedings of the 2014 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing).

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Mancini, C, Van Der Linden, J, Kortuem, G, Dewsbury, G, Mills, D & Boyden, P 2014, UbiComp for animal welfare: Envisioning smart environments for kenneled dogs. in UbiComp 2014 - Proceedings of the 2014 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing. UbiComp 2014 - Proceedings of the 2014 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), pp. 117-128, 2014 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, UbiComp 2014, Seattle, United States, 13/09/14. https://doi.org/10.1145/2632048.2632073

UbiComp for animal welfare: Envisioning smart environments for kenneled dogs. / Mancini, Clara; Van Der Linden, Janet; Kortuem, Gerd et al.
UbiComp 2014 - Proceedings of the 2014 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2014. p. 117-128 (UbiComp 2014 - Proceedings of the 2014 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing).

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Mancini C, Van Der Linden J, Kortuem G, Dewsbury G, Mills D, Boyden P. UbiComp for animal welfare: Envisioning smart environments for kenneled dogs. In UbiComp 2014 - Proceedings of the 2014 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). 2014. p. 117-128. (UbiComp 2014 - Proceedings of the 2014 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing). doi: 10.1145/2632048.2632073

UbiComp for animal welfare: Envisioning smart environments for kenneled dogs

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