Wearer-Centered Design for Animal Biotelemetry: Implementation and Wearability Test of a Prototype

Paci, Patrizia; Mancini, Clara and Price, Blaine A. (2019). Wearer-Centered Design for Animal Biotelemetry: Implementation and Wearability Test of a Prototype. In: Proceedings of the 23rd International Symposium on Wearable Computers - ISWC '19, ACM pp. 177–185.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3341163.3347750

Abstract

In this paper we present an approach to designing wearer-centered biotelemetry for non-human (and human) animal wearers. Drawing from fundamental values and principles of user-centered design, we describe a wearer-centered framework to heuristically establish design requirements, which was used during a series of workshops to perform a requirements analysis for a cat-tracking device. The resulting requirements informed a feline-centered prototype whose wearability was evaluated with cat wearers. Compared to the wearability of previously tested off-the-shelf devices, our findings show an improvement and suggest that our framework-based approach can help design teams with a range of skills to systematically design for wearability.

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• Item ORO ID
• 66374
• Item Type
• Conference or Workshop Item
• ISBN
• 1-4503-6870-0, 978-1-4503-6870-4
• Project Funding Details

• Funded Project Name	Project ID	Funding Body
  SAUSE: Secure, Adaptive, Usable Software Engineering	EP/R013144/1 (previous: EP/R005095/1)	EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council)

• Keywords
• Animal-Computer Interaction; animal biotelemetry; wearability; wearer-centered design
• Academic Unit or School
• Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) > Computing and Communications
  Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM)
• Copyright Holders
• © 2019 The Authors
• Depositing User
• Clara Mancini