Projects

Pet wearables and the human-animal bond

We are investigating the effect of wearable technology on the bond between owners and their pets, in particular how wearables affect their caregiving abilities and alters the attachment between owner and pet.

Development processes in tech4animals

In this project we are analyzing and adapting existing requirements engineering and software development techniques to the domain of technology for animals in order to guide practical development of tech4a minding animal welfare and usability.

Recent publications:

• Dirk van der Linden, Anna Zamansky: Agile with Animals: Towards a Development Method. In: Just-In-Time Requirements Engineering (JITRE), 2017 IEEE Workshop on, Lisbon, Portugal, 2017.
• Anna Zamansky, Dirk van der Linden and Sofya Baskin: Pushing Boundaries of RE: Requirement Elicitation for Non-Human Users. In: Proc. of the 25th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (IEEE RE), RE@Next! track, Lisboa, Portugal, 2017.

Automatic Canine Behavior Analysis.

In this project we develop automatic tools for video-based and sensor-based behavior recognition and analysis. See more details on the K9-Blyzer tool.

Recent publications:

• Shir Amir, Anna Zamansky, Dirk van der Linden: K9-Blyzer – Towards Video-Based Automatic Analysis of Canine Behavior. In: Proc. 4th International Conference on Animal-Computer Interaction (ACI2017), Milton Keynes, UK, 2017.