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Monday, December 1st

Indiana Memorial Union Building, Dogwood Room​​

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Starting at noon, this is a half day dedicated to the doctoral consortium, tours, posters and demos.  We will meet at the Dogwood room in the Indiana Memorial Union (IMU). Poster and demo set up is from noon-3:30pm. The consortium will run from 12:30-2:30pm.  Small group tours will run consecutively from 1:30-3:30pm.  The poster and demo session will run from 3:30-5:00pm.  Coffee/tea and light refreshments will be available throughout the day.  Note:  attendees are welcome to present posters and models of finished, in-progress, and/or still-in-the-planning phase for this year’s poster and demo session.  If you’d like to spark a conversation around your work, please consider sharing it with us!

 

12:00pm

Welcome, registration, poster/demo setup
Coffee/tea, water, cookies and fruit

12:30-2:30pm

Doctoral consortium

1:30-3:30pm

Tours: Luddy School Buildings, Erica Cartmill’s canine cognition lab, Selma Sabanovic’s R(obot)-House lab

3:30-5:00pm                

Welcome reception, light food and drinks, poster and demo session.

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(Dinner on our own)

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Tuesday, December 2nd

Indiana Memorial Union Building, Walnut Room​​

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This is our first day of keynote talks and paper presentations, mostly focused on work with zoo animals.  We will meet at the IMU again, this time in the Walnut Room.  After a brief welcome, we will start with our first keynote speaker, Dr. Erica Cartmill of IU Bloomington.  Two paper sessions  and a panel on IU’s ACI degree programs follow, ending with a keynote address by Dr. Christopher Martin of Indianapolis Zoo.  Boxed lunches will be provided with coffee/tea and light refreshments available in the morning and afternoon.  

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8:30am

Coffee/tea/water, pastries and fruit available

9am

Welcome

9:15-10:25am

Keynote: Erica Cartmill, IU

10:25-10:35am

Break

10:35-11:55am

Session 1

• [(15) short paper] What is An "Animal" Anyways?: From Essentialism to Social Construction Through Research on ACI.

  • Lena Ashooh and Rebecca Kleinberger

• [(20) full paper] “Choice” and “Control” in ACI Publications: A Systematic Review of Language Use Across Relational Contexts.

  • Eli McGraw, Megan McNames, Isabelle Wagoner, Lisa Brey and Christena Nippert-Eng

• [(15) short paper] Providing choice and control at the zoo: a preliminary review of contextual factors based on expert interviews.

  • Lisa Brey, Megan McNames, Eli McGraw, Lilliana Hassinger, Isabelle Wagoner and Christena Nippert-Eng

• [(20) (Invited Presentation)] Assessing Zoo Animal Welfare:  What ACI researchers should know.

  • Lilliana Hassinger

Noon-1:00pm

Lunch - box lunches

1:00-2:20pm

Session 2

• [(15) short paper] Swing it On: Design of Responsive Acoustic Environments for Zoo-housed Colobus Monkeys.

  • David Habboosh, Mohamad El Nayal, Sean Guiry, Aamer Syed, Ilyena Hirskyj-Douglas, Sarah Woodruff and Rebecca Kleinberger

• [(15) short paper] Keeping it Trunky: Engineering Improvements for Enabling Long Term Interactive Enrichment for Elephants.

  • Arianna Mastali, Caden Prather, Charles Ramey, Kirby Miller, Nathan Elgart, Thad Starner and Melody Jackson

• [(15) short paper] Colobus Curio Cabinet: A Modular; Mirror-Based; Co-Designed Enrichment Proposal for Colobus guereza.

  • Omi Johnson, Victoria Klimkowski, Shannon Haley, Cailigh Macdonald, Sarah Woodruff and Rébecca Kleinberger

• [(15) short paper] Exploring the Cockatoo's Engagement with Audiovisual Stimuli: An Inclusive Avian-IoT Interaction Design.

  • Haoran Hong, Sui Zhuoneng, Leo Uesaka, Hiromi Kudo and Hill Hiroki Kobayashi

• [(15) short paper] A Computer Vision Pipeline to Augment Touchscreen Tasks for Chimpanzees.

  • William Lubetkin, Christopher Flynn Martin, Isabella Walker, Jake Peacock and Ryan J. Eller

2:20-2:30pm

Break coffee/tea and cookies

2:30-3:00pm

Panel - ACI at IUB

3:00-3:10pm

Break

3:10-4:20pm

Keynote: Chris Martin, Indianapolis Zoo/IU

 

 

(Dinner on our own)

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Wednesday, December 3rd

Indianapolis Zoo​

 

Conference attendees are invited to spend a day at the Indianapolis Zoo, with transportation provided to and from the conference location.  We will leave the IMU student union and Biddle hotel complex at 8:00am, arriving at the zoo at 9:00am.  Our visit begins with refreshments and welcome talks by zoo staff followed by an open house of behind-the-scenes experiences with animals. A highlight of the visit will be a guided tour of the Zoo’s new chimpanzee exhibit, which features computerized enrichment opportunities and an extensive network of overhead trails connecting indoor and outdoor spaces for the largest community of zoo-housed chimpanzees in the world. In the afternoon, attendees may choose to participate in one of two workshops:  “ApeJam” (Fiona French, Christopher Flynn Martin and Fay Clark), or “Design Fiction for Animal-Robot Interaction: In the New Era of Artificial Intelligence” (Haruka Kasuga, Masashi Takeshita and Yuichiro Kasuga).  Alternatively, attendees may continue exploring the Zoo, or visit nearby museums in downtown Indianapolis, all within walking distance. The group will depart the zoo at 4:15pm, returning to campus and the IMU student union/hotel at approximately 5:25pm.

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8:00am

Depart Main Lobby entrance, Biddle Hotel/Indiana Memorial Union

9:15am

Arrive at zoo

9:30am

Welcome talk by Dr. Rob Shumaker, President and CEO

10:30am

Behind the scenes tours

12:15-1:00pm

Lunch

1:00-4:00pm

Concurrent Workshops​

• ApeJam

• Speculative Fiction Robots

 

Coffee/tea/cookies​

4:15pm

Depart zoo, return to campus by 5:30pm​

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(Dinner on our own)

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Thursday, December 4th

Indiana Memorial Union Building, Walnut Room​​

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For our second and final day of keynote talks and paper presentations we will return to the IMU Walnut Room.  The day begins with an ACI town hall session for open discussion and future planning; all are welcome to attend. Three paper sessions follow, with a final keynote address by Dr. Joe Caudell of Indiana’s Department of Natural Resources.  The day ends with our conference dinner.  Coffee/tea and light refreshments will be available in the morning and afternoon.  Boxed lunches will be provided.

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9:00am

Coffee/tea/water, pastries and fruit available

9:30-10:30am

ACI Town Hall

10:30-10:40am

Break

10:40-12:00am

Session 3

• [(20) full paper] An Integrated Wearable Sensor System for Simultaneous Pull and Pace Characterization in Guide Dogs.

  • Colt Nichols, Yifan Wu, Eleanor McNamee, Curtis Greene, Margaret Gruen, Jane Russenberger, Gerald Brenninkmeyer, David L. Roberts and Alper Bozkurt

• [(20) full paper] Evaluating Data Preprocessing Strategies for Canine Activity Recognition Using IMUs.

  • Gustavo Tironi and Rafael de Pinho André

• [(20) full paper] DiabetiCAT: Animal Biosensing Computing with Feline Urine Glucose Biosensing and Hydration Monitoring.

  • Shuyi Sun, Jinho Yon, Xingda Chen, Krystle Reagan and Katia Vega

• [(20) full paper] Toward Automated Pain Evaluation in Osteoarthritic Dogs Through Inertial Data and Machine Learning.

  • Yifan Wu, Jianxun Wang, B. Duncan X. Lascelles, Masataka Enomoto, Alper Bozkurt and David L. Roberts

Noon-12:45pm

Lunch - box lunches

12:45-2:05pm

Session 4

• [(20) full paper] Look What the Cat Tapped In: Exploring Digital Interactive Systems Designed for the Cat Cafe Experience.

  • Florence P. E. Payne, Rébecca Kleinberger and Ilyena Hirskyj-Douglas

• [(15) short paper] Parallel Animal-Centered Ethics: An Investigatory Review of Lab Rat Welfare Literature.

  • Jake Peacock, Lisa Brey and Leigh Levinson

• [(15) short paper] Listening with the Fishes: Aquatic Audio Interfaces to Experience Acoustic Underwater Worlds.

  • Karen Lu, Ilyena Hirskyj-Douglas, Cailigh MacDonald and Rebecca Kleinberger

• [(15) short paper] Detection of Weight Distribution With an Electronically Augmented Bareback Pad During Therapy Using Equine Movement.

  • Thomas Chan, Rossy Dang, Vijay Shastri, Arianna Mastali, Sophie Clyde, Annie Zhang, Caden Prather, Charles Ramey, Bethany Nugent, Thad Starner and Melody Jackson

2:05-2:15pm

Break coffee/tea and cookies

2:15-3:35pm

Session 5

• [(15) short paper] Ewe’ve Got Nerve: Electronic Headwear System for Sheep Group Behavior Dynamics.

  • Grace Crim, Alex Cabral, Josiah Hester and Caleb Kemere

• [(20) full paper] Using Community Notes to Enact Attitudinal Change towards Urban Wildlife.

  • Sam Gowland, Brittany Davidson and Dirk van der Linden. 

• [(20) full paper] Weeds or Careful Cultivars? On the Growth of Social Media in Urban Wildlife Research and Relations.

  • Sam Gowland and Dirk van der Linden

• [(20) full paper] Driving out the Bears from the Suburbs by Means of Location Theory and Intelligent Agents.

  • Jan Dünnweber, Marcel Lorenz, Fabian Bräu, Hiroshi Saito and Matthias Melzer

3:35-3:45pm

Break

3:45-5:00pm

Keynote: Joe Caudell, Indiana Department of Natural Resources

6:00-8:00pm

Conference banquet