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Hey, where's my hay?: design fictions in horse-computer interaction

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ACI '17: Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Animal-Computer Interaction

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https://doi.org/10.1145/3152130.3152149

Published: 21 November 2017 Publication History

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Horses (and other nonhuman animals) are increasingly encountering systems designed by human animals. Some of these systems are conceived with altruistic motives to enrich horses' lives. Other systems are designed to facilitate human interaction, with little consideration for the animals forced to share the human environment. As with cognitively challenged humans, horses are 'unaware' and often 'implicit' interactors. This category of user is uniquely vulnerable to the projected requirements and needs of designers. To think like a horse (or any user without a voice) a designer must be able to embrace 'the otherness' of an unfamiliar perspective. This paper uses four examples of 'design fiction' to speculate about systems that might actually be meaningful to a horse. The intention is not to seriously propose these as prototypes. Rather, they are thought experiments, illustrating the inherent danger in trying to co-design with the voiceless.

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Hey, where's my hay?: design fictions in horse-computer interaction
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)

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ACI '17: Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Animal-Computer Interaction

November 2017

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ISBN:9781450353649

DOI:10.1145/3152130

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