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Mancini, Clara; Harris, Rob; Aengenheister, Brendan and Guest, Claire
(2015).
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/2702123.2702562
Abstract
We report on participatory design research where interaction designers, and canine behavioral specialists, together with their cancer detection dogs, teamed up to better support the dogs’ life-saving work. We discuss interspecies communication challenges in cancer detection training, requiring the dogs to use human signaling conventions that perturb their detection work. We describe our effort to develop a technology that could resolve those challenges, and how in the process our design focus gradually shifted from a human-centered to a canine-centered interaction model. The resulting interface, based on honest signaling, re-centers cancer detection practices on the dogs themselves, enabling them to better express their potential as cancer detection workers; it also provides a model for re-thinking human-computer interactions.
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- Item ORO ID
- 42640
- Item Type
- Conference or Workshop Item
- ISBN
- 1-4503-3145-9, 978-1-4503-3145-6
- Project Funding Details
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Funded Project Name Project ID Funding Body Cancer Detection Interfaces Not Set The Open University (OU) - Keywords
- cancer detection; interspecies communication; honest signaling; canine-centered interfaces; ACI
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Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) > Computing and Communications
Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) - Research Group
- Centre for Research in Computing (CRC)
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- http://chi2015.acm.org(Other)
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- Clara Mancini