Organising Committee 
General Chair:

  - Melody Moore Jackson
Program Chair:

  - Clara Mancini
Videoposter and Demo Chair:

  - Juan Haladjian
Doctoral Consortium Chair:

  - Heli Väätäjä
Workshop Chair:

  - Anna Zamansky

Proceedings Chair:

  - Yoram Chisik
Publicity Chair:

  - Dirk van der Linden

 

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Program Committee

• Joelle Alcaidinho

• Sofya Baskin

• Stephane Bleuer-Elsner

• Yoram Chisik

• Ashley Colley

• Juan Haladjian

• Carol Hall

• Javier Jaen

• Oskar Juhlin

• Martin Kaltenbrunner

• Ben Kirman

• Eleonora Nannoni

• Elena Neprintseva

• Steve North

• Dirk van der Linden

• Clara Mancini

• Ann Morrison

• Melody Moore Jackson

• Naohisa Ohta

• Katriina Tiira, Heli Väätäjä

• Anna Zamansky

• Clint Zeagler

 

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Conference Theme
This year's theme was connectedness and wellbeing. Contributions that focussed on the improvement of human-animal relations or relations between other animals were particularly welcome, including, for example, 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, an international panel, and affiliated workshops.

 

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Keynotes 
Opening Keynote: Denise Herzing, The Wild Dolphin Project
*Dolphins and Computers: Rethinking Species-Specific Interfaces for Communication Studies
Closing Keynote: Con Slobodchikoff, Dog Star Technologies
*Decoding animal languages with computers and AI

 

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Panel

Ethics and Welfare in Animal-Computer Interaction

Moderator: Clara Mancini

Panelists:

Denise Herzing, The Wild Dolphin Project

Con Slobodchikoff, The Animal Language Institute

Mark Spivak, Dog Star Technologies

Lynn Yakubinis, Zoo Atlanta

 

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Workshops

W1 - Designing for Animals: Defining “Participation” in Animal-Computer Interaction.

W2 - SoundJam: Acoustic Design For Auditory Enrichment

 

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