Organising Committee 
General Chair:

  - Clara Mancini
Program Chairs:

  - Anna Zamansky

  - Hanna Wirman
Workshop Chairs:

  - Melody Jackson

  - Mandy Roshier
Doctoral Consortium Chairs:

  - Javier Jaen

  - Oskar Juhlin
Video Posters and Demos Chairs:

  - Steve North

  - Shaun Lawson
Proceedings Chair:

  - Yoram Chisik
Student Volunteer Chair:

  - Joelle Alcaidinho

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Program Committee

• Sofya Baskin

• Marcus Carter

• Ashley Colley

• Andrew French

• Carol Hall

• Sam Hurn

• Ben Kirman

• Cassim Ladha

• Joel Lanir

• Ann Morrison

• Elena Neprintseva

• David Roberts

• Thad Starner

• Heli Väätäjä

• Dirk van der Linden

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Conference Theme
This year's theme was improving relations. Contributions that focussed on the improvement of human-animal relations or relations between other animals were particularly welcome, including theories, methods, or applications that have the potential to better support interspecies communication; to improve humans’ understanding of other animals, their characteristics and needs; to enable humans to take better care of other animals; to reduce interspecies conflicts and the impact of human activity on animals; to better supports animals in activities they do for humans; to foster the development of ecologically and ethically more sustainable forms of interspecies interaction and cohabitation.

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CONFERENCE PROGRAM 
The conference program comprised keynote presentations from internationally renowned speakers, paper presentations, videoposter and demo presentations, doctoral consortium, and affiliated workshops.

 

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Keynotes 
Opening Keynote: Anne McBride, University of Southampton, UK
*Thinking Aloud: Animals as Technology, Technology ‘for’ Animals, Technology as Animals and Back Again
Closing Keynote: Ádám Miklósi, Eötvös University Budapest, Hungary
*Ethological approach to animal-machine interaction

 

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Workshops
W1 - Technology for Bonding in Human-Animal Interaction.
W2 - FarmJam2017: Designing Enrichment for Farm Animals.

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The full conference program, including the list of technical presentations, is available here.