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    FIDO—Facilitating interactions for dogs with occupations: wearable communication interfaces for working dogs
    (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2015-01) Jackson, Melody Moore ; Valentin, Giancarlo ; Freil, Larry ; Burkeen, Lily ; Zeagler, Clint ; Gilliland, Scott ; Currier, Barbara ; Starner, Thad
    Working dogs have improved the lives of thousands of people throughout history. However, communication between human and canine partners is currently limited. The main goal of the FIDO project is to research fundamental aspects of wearable technologies to support communication between working dogs and their handlers. In this study, the FIDO team investigated on-body interfaces for dogs in the form of wearable technology integrated into assistance dog vests. We created five different sensors that dogs could activate based on natural dog behaviors such as biting, tugging, and nose touches. We then tested the sensors on-body with eight dogs previously trained for a variety of occupations and compared their effectiveness in several dimensions. We were able to demonstrate that it is possible to create wearable sensors that dogs can reliably activate on command, and to determine cognitive and physical factors that affect dogs’ success with body–worn interaction technology.
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    Canine Reachability of Snout-based Wearable Inputs
    (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2014-09) Valentin, Giancarlo ; Alcaidinho, Joelle ; Friel, Larry ; Zeagler, Clint ; Jackson, Melody Moore ; Starner, Thad
    We designed an experiment with the goal of assessing wearable reachability for canines. We investigated the effect of placement on the ability of dogs to reach on-body interfaces with their snouts. In our pilot study, seven placements along the front legs, rib cage, hip and chest are tested with six dogs. The results showed that the front leg placements are reachable with the least amount of training and are also the most invariant to small changes in location. With training, the lower half of the rib cage area had the fastest access times across subjects. We hope that these results may be useful in mapping the constraint space of placements for snout interactions.
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    Facilitating Interactions for Dogs with Occupations: Wearable Dog - Activated Interfaces
    (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2013-09) Jackson, Melody Moore ; Zeagler, Clint ; Valentin, Giancarlo ; Martin, Alex ; Martin, Vincent ; Delawalla, Adil ; Blount, Wendy ; Eiring, Sarah ; Hollis, Ryan ; Kshirsagar, Yash ; Starner, Thad
    Working dogs have improved the lives of thousands of people. However, communication between human and canine partners is currently limited. The main goal of the FIDO project is to research fundamental aspects of wearable technologies to support communication between working dogs and their handlers. In this pilot study, the FIDO team investigated on-body interfaces for assistance dogs in the form of wearable technology integrated into assistance dog vests. We created four different sensors that dogs could activate (based on biting, tugging, and nose gestures) and tested them on-body with three assistance-trained dogs. We were able to demonstrate that it is possible to create wearable sensors that dogs can reliably activate on command.
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    Can I Wash It? : The Effect of Washing Conductive Materials Used in Making Textile Based Wearable Electronic Interfaces
    (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2013) Zeagler, Clint ; Gilliland, Scott ; Audy, Stephen ; Starner, Thad
    In this paper we explore the wash-ability of conductive materials commonly use in creating traces and touch sensors in wearable electronic textile systems. We performed a wash test measuring change in resistivity of conductive traces constructed using different combinations of conductive materials after each wash cycle.
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    The Natural Aspect of Mobile Interfaces: Becoming Borg, Designing Body Worn Technolgy
    (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-01-14) Starner, Thad ; Zeagler, Clint
    Georgia Tech professors Thad Starner and Clint Zeagler discussed the natural aspect of mobile interfaces and the special challenges of designing technology for human mobility and interaction. Thad and Clint presented examples of designing body worn technology by looking at case studies from their collaborative course "Wearable Designs / Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing".