More than Human Aesthetics: Interactive Enrichment for Elephants

French, Fiona; Mancini, Clara and Sharp, Helen (2020). More than Human Aesthetics: Interactive Enrichment for Elephants. In: DIS '20: Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference, ACM pp. 1661–1672.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3357236.3395445

Abstract

Species-specific aesthetics is an important consideration for interaction designers working with animals. The paper explores the concept of species-specific aesthetics with particular reference to elephants. Applying existing aesthetic dimensions and design principles to the challenge of designing interactive enrichment for them, we show how the insights gained can inform more than human centered design in different settings. We offer a multi faceted, multi- sensory lens for examining an animal-centred aesthetic experience of technology.

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• Item ORO ID
• 71257
• Item Type
• Conference or Workshop Item
• ISBN
• 1-4503-6974-X, 978-1-4503-6974-9
• Keywords
• aesthetics; animal-computer interaction; elephant; haptics; acoustics; Research through Design; UX design; environmental enrichment
• Academic Unit or School
• Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM)
  Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) > Computing and Communications
• Research Group
• Centre for Research in Computing (CRC)
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• © 2020 Association for Computing Machinery
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• • https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.11...(Other)
• Depositing User
• Clara Mancini