Are there any computer interfaces for not humans?

Question

I have a large amount of different animals living around me (pets and cattle) and I want to set up some experiments where two familiar to each other animals are supposed to contact each other via wire. I want to do this to dogs and chicken because these species are the easiest to obtain and to live with.Are there any researches about how to interest a dog to stare in a monitor like we the humans do with smartphones? I am interested in: preparing monitor in comfortable for animal manner, input device (how many buttons does it need), output device such as reward giver etc.

h2odragon · Accepted Answer

Dogs hearing is such that we can't reproduce sound without them knowing its artificial. I'm pretty sure they don't see screens the same way as we do, or as very similar to the real thing, either. I suspect this will be a problem in any experiment where the technology gets between the dog and its interest.Why the computer mediation? What're you hoping to learn from mediated interactions that you wouldn't learn from in person, physical contact interactions? Critters say so much to each other through smell anyway; a conversation over a video link will not be about the same things that they'd discuss when they can smell each other.

haspoken · Answer

Scientists teach pigs how to play video game with a joystick
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26104929
https://pbgossiptv.com/pigs-playing-video-games-expand-our-n...
Parrots learn to make video calls to chat with other parrots: study
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35664219
Animal-computer interaction
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal%E2%80%93computer_intera...

jjgreen · Answer

There are conferences on ACI (Animal-Computer Interaction) https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/2995257