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Paci, Patrizia; Mancini, Clara and Price, Blaine
(2020).
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3357236.3395546
Abstract
Animals can be negatively affected by wearable tracking devices, even those marketed as ‘animal friendly’ and increasingly used with companion animals, such as cats. To understand the wearer experience of cats fitted with popular GPS trackers, we measured the behavior of 13 feline participants while they were wearing the devices during a field study. The aim of our behavioral analysis was twofold: investigating potential signs of discomfort generated by the devices to evaluate the impact that such interventions have on cat wearers; identifying wearability flaws that might account for the observed impact and wearability requirements to improve the design of the devices. Based on our findings, we propose a set of requirements that should inform the design of trackers to afford better wearability and thus provide better wearer experience for cat wearers.
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Funded Project Name Project ID Funding Body STRETCH: Socio-Technical Resilience for Enhancing Targeted Community Healthcare EP/P01013X/1 EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council) 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 wearables; animal biotelemetry; wearability; wearer-experience
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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
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Centre for Research in Computing (CRC)
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- https://dis.acm.org/2020/(Other)
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- Patrizia Paci