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Designing Interactive Toys for Elephants

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Fiona French,

Clara Mancini,

Helen SharpAuthors Info & Claims

CHI PLAY '15: Proceedings of the 2015 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play

Pages 523 - 528

https://doi.org/10.1145/2793107.2810327

Published: 05 October 2015 Publication History

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This research is investigating the potential for designing digital toys and games as playful cognitive enrichment activities for captive elephants. The new field of Animal Computer Interaction is exploring a range of approaches to the problem of designing user-centred systems for animals and this investigation into devices for elephants aims to directly contribute towards a methodological approach for designing smart and playful enrichment for all species.

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CHI PLAY '15: Proceedings of the 2015 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play

October 2015

852 pages

ISBN:9781450334662

DOI:10.1145/2793107

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University College London, UK
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University of York, UK
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IRIT, France
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University of Waterloo, Canada

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