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We report on a mixed-method, comparative study investigating whether there is a difference between privacy concerns expressed about pet wearables as opposed to human wearables – and more importantly,why. We extracted the privacy concerns found in product reviews (N=8,038) of pet wearables (activity, location, and dual-function trackers), contrasting the (lack of) concerns and misuse to a curated set of reviews for similar human-oriented wearables (N=20,431). Our findings indicate that, while overall very few privacy concerns are expressed in product reviews, for pet wearables they are expressed even less, even though consumers use these devices in a manner which impacts both personal and bystander privacy. An additional survey of pet owners (N=201) eliciting what factors would cause them to not purchase (or stop using) pet wearables indicated comparably few privacy concerns, strengthening the representativeness of our findings. A thematic analysis reveals that the lack of privacy concerns may be explained by, among other factors, emotional drivers to purchase the device, and prioritization of (desired) functionality to support those emotional drivers over privacy requirements. Moreover, we found that pet wearables are used in different ways than originally intended, which raise novel privacy implications to be dealt with. We propose that in order to move towards more privacy-conscious use of pet wearables, a combination of understanding consumer rationale and behavior as well as ensuring data protection legislation is adequate to real-world use is needed.

As an increasingly prevalent class of consumer device, pet wearables hold more privacy implications than might be initially apparent. Through analysis of privacy policies, we show that more data are captured about owners than pets-and which data are captured remains vague.

Zoos have been consistently popular with young visitors, helping educate children in animal conservation. However, zoos’ typical strategies employ interactive signs and videos, which children largely ignore. In pursuit of new engagement methods, children were invited to design for animals via ZooDesign, a gamified imaginative design approach centred on an educational card and role-playing game, ZooDesign assists children in envisaging how animals can use technologies, by exploring their welfare needs and humans’ involvement. Many children designed with the animals’ well-being in mind. Analysis of their creations and role-play interviews revealed that the method constitutes a good process but not all designs were appropriate for use with animals. Furthermore, few designs included the children themselves; most emphasised zookeeper and researcher roles instead. Building on child-computer interaction methods for zoo-based education contexts, the research raises key questions involved in educating children about animals.

Animals in managed care ideally are provided with environmental stimuli for their psychological and physiological well-being. Most commonly, food-based enrichment methods are used to mimic wild conditions, allowing animals to search and forage. Other sensory stimulation devices may be employed to reduce stereotypical behaviors. However, many of these devices fall short in providing choice and control to animals, an important factor in cognitive engagement. In this paper, we present a case study conducted at the San Diego Zoo that explores such design for two elephants. The resultant system, called Soundyssey, is an active auditory enrichment device for elephants that encourages play behaviors through embodied interaction. Our preliminary results indicate that elephants understood the system and interacted with the interface significantly longer than with passive objects. During the interactions, elephants showed more positive behaviors such as focused exploration, reducing the possibility of negative stereotypical behaviors. We suggest that such technologically-enhanced objects and embodied design can enhance standards of managed animal care.

In this paper, we introduce a design fieldwork study on carer-stray cat interactions in local neighborhoods. While previous work on Animal-Computer-Interaction concentrated on animal participation, we aim to explore the limits to equal participation of interactants beyond human-centrism using Actor-Network-Theory (ANT). Prioritization of human practices is indicated according to the initial results in this interaction. It is unclear how the observed interactions and objects relate to the cat's practices, well-being, or comfort in several cases. The future of Animal-Computer-Interaction in terms of anthropocentrism is questioned by mapping the findings to theories beyond humans. This study can inspire Nature HCI researchers -and the broader HCI communities- to create less centralized interactions and technologies emphasizing human and non-human interactants more equitably., NA

This one-day workshop examined how we might use technologies to support design for playful interspecies communication and considered some of the potential implications. We explored aspects of playful technology and reflected on what opportunities computers can provide for facilitating communication between species. The workshop's focal activity was the co-creation of some imaginary systems designed for specific multi-species scenarios. Through our activities, we aim to question and pave the way for designing technology that promotes interspecies communication, drawing input not only from ACI practitioners but also from those of the broader HCI and animal science community, who are often stakeholders in facilitating, expanding, and/or redefining playful technology.

Remote communication technologies have become an essential tool in connecting families separated by distance. At the same time, as our notion of family moves beyond human members to include our pets, an increasing number of multi-species remote communication devices are being developed. However, the extent to which dogs understand disembodied technologies, and their perceptions of such technologies, remains unknown. Furthermore, such devices are often not developed within an ACI framework where the non-human users' needs and requirements are considered as equally as the humans'. Therefore, this work proposes a study which will explore dogs' perceptions of three stimuli often used in disembodied technology: treat dispensing/food, video, and sound. In this proposed study, dogs will be left alone with individual stimuli in a series of trials, and their reactions and behaviours will be recorded. Analyses of these recordings will offer new insights into canine cognition, while also having practical implications in informing the development of novel multi-species remote communication technologies within the ACI community.

Publisher Copyright: © 2020 ACM. Copyright: Copyright 2021 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved. How early technology requirements are formed for animals involves asking humans caring for the animal to give requirements for them. For zoo animals, this is the keeper and other experts who work with the animal. This requirement gathering process is used as a method of forming user-centric designs for systems for animals. Yet little attention has been paid towards how to form these early requirements in zoos or whom to gather these from. Addressing this, we investigate how to construct technology requirements for the zoo housed animals, using white-faced saki monkeys as an instance. Utilizing the method of questionnaires, we gather requirements from zoo keepers and zoo visitors. Comparing and analyzing our results, we reveal how requirements for animal-technology in zoo contexts diverge and intersect. Our data indicates that these vantages mostly align; with the zoo visitors focusing upon the aesthetics and keepers concentrating on practicalities. Overarching these, we note how requirements in proxy for animals often involves a synthesis of complex motivations, user narratives, vantage points, and prior technology and animal experience that is irreparably intertwined within the requirement process. This paper builds upon requirement gathering methods for unconventional users.

For this project, we design a self-activated wave enrichment system for a solo male platypus, 'Sam', at Melbourne Zoo. We develop a sensor system that Sam can learn to activate by swimming near the device to trigger a wave sequence, providing both choice (to activate a wave pattern) and control (whether to activate) over his environment. We predict that the triggering will promote natural exploration and play behaviours in response to the wave patterns and reduce noted abnormal repetitive behaviours. The project involves multiple stakeholders with city and state zoos, Animal Welfare Specialists, keepers and operational systems teams, university researchers and multiple funding applications and ethical clearances. With the project 'still in process', we detail the initial testing which indicates the overall potential success of the interactive system for Sam and specify the next steps for implementation, observation, analysis and beyond.

While the field of Animal-Computer Interaction is an emerging one, the main focus has still been on anthropocentric approaches to dog technology, assuming that technology that works for humans would also work for dogs. ACI research often examines ways that giving animals technology can improve some aspect of a human's life without considering the complexities of how dogs navigate the world. Using a dog's connection to its owner as a starting point, I plan to design telepresence-based technology that exposes the potentially problematic sides of pet tech, while helping owners to appreciate the complexities of their dogs.

Species-specific aesthetics is an important consideration for interaction designers working with animals. The paper explores the concept of species-specific aesthetics with particular reference to elephants. Applying existing aesthetic dimensions and design principles to the challenge of designing interactive enrichment for them, we show how the insights gained can inform more than human centered design in different settings. We offer a multi faceted, multi- sensory lens for examining an animal-centred aesthetic experience of technology.

Animals are part of city life. Many animal species live in the city. On the street, in buildings, in our homes, in vacant lots, parks, cemeteries, and in gardens. In smart cities the life of domestic and working animals will be augmented with digital technology. Urban wildlife will be confronted with digital technology as well. Robotic and virtual animals will also become part of street life. We survey the developments that lead to this future city life in which humans, augmented animals, robotic animals and virtual animals will co-exist.

Multi-species interfaces, where users consist of both human and non-human animals, continue to emerge in many application areas, such as zoos shared spaces between humans and domesticated animals. Within this, new instances of Canine-Computer Interaction are rapidly being developed, including applications that support assistance dogs in helping their handlers with disabilities, and interfaces that support human and dog bonding. Regardless of the specific application, many canine interfaces rely on a pressure-activated interaction for the canine input modality. We report on a two-phase study that explored the current practices of assistance dogs using pressure-activated switches (buttons) and aimed to understand canine experiences using different types of buttons. We discuss not only the practical design implications for designers developing canine interfaces, but also methodological findings in regard to conducting research with both canine and human participants. We aim to continue to extend design practices to include non-human animals as co-designers.

Animals can be negatively affected by wearable tracking devices, even those marketed as ‘animal friendly’ and increasingly used with companion animals, such as cats. To understand the wearer experience of cats fitted with popular GPS trackers, we measured the behavior of 13 feline participants while they were wearing the devices during a field study. The aim of our behavioral analysis was twofold: investigating potential signs of discomfort generated by the devices to evaluate the impact that such interventions have on cat wearers; identifying wearability flaws that might account for the observed impact and wearability requirements to improve the design of the devices. Based on our findings, we propose a set of requirements that should inform the design of trackers to afford better wearability and thus provide better wearer experience for cat wearers.

One particular approach in the context of Animal Computer Interaction (ACI) is auditory enrichment for captive wild animals. Here we describe our research and the methodology used to design musical instruments and interfaces aimed at providing auditory enrichment for grey parrots living in captivity. The paper is divided into three main phases: a project review and classification, sonic experiments at the parrot shelter and the design of musical instruments. The overview of recent projects that involve animals in the interaction and music-generation process highlights the costs and benefits of projects of this kind and provides insights into current technologies in this field and the musical talents of animals. Furthermore, we document a series of sonic experiments conducted at a parrot shelter to develop acoustically enriched environments through the use of musical instruments. These investigations were intended to provide a better understanding of how grey parrots communicate through sound, perceive and respond to auditory stimuli and possibly generate sound and music through the usage of technological devices. Based on the cognitive, physiological, and auditory abilities of grey parrots, and their intrinsic interest in sonic and physical interactions, we finally developed and tested various interactive instrument prototypes and here we present our design results for auditory enrichment in the context of ACI and artistic research.

Precision Livestock Farming (PLF) aims to automate and optimize the detection of illness, injury, and reproductive cycles in livestock through real-time automated data collection, analysis and reporting. While many researchers and farmers agree that PLF can help optimize agriculture practices and outcomes, in certain farming sectors there has been low adoption rates of PLF technologies. This research investigated this low adoption in one key sector of the Canadian agricultural industry: beef farming. The study was carried out from the point of view of two different stakeholders, farmers and veterinarians, to enable innovators and PLF researchers to implement user-centric and cost-effective technologies. The study was centred on the beef feedlot sector in Ontario, Canada to give us initial insights into the adoption of digital technology in the beef industry in Canada. The feedlot subsection of beef industry was chosen due to the confined nature of their operations, which makes them more likely to adopt existing technology. This research will serve as a pilot study for a Canada-wide study. Data from 10 interviews and 30 surveys were collected. Results of the study revealed that several key factors that can hinder adoption of PLF technologies in beef industry including: perceived relevance of the technology, lack of awareness of available technologies and their capabilities, trust in the technology, level of familiarity and comfort with technology due to age and education, cost, and return on investment. These insights have a number of implications for researchers and industry stakeholders developing PLF technologies that are discussed in the thesis. Ontario Graduate Scholarship program, Food from Thought Research Assistantship, and Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)

We present MicroAquarium, a new hybrid digital-biological installation that provides an immersive experience of interacting with real living cells. MicroAquarium uses a custom-built light-projection microscope equipped with an interactive input device and an immersive display to mediate the interaction between humans and microorganisms. Users' hand motions are recognized and converted into a pattern of light that is projected onto the photo-tactic microorganisms inside the microscope. The view inside the microscope is displayed on a large screen display, providing users with an immersive experience of being inside an aquarium of living cells. Our system effectively bridges the differences in size and the sensing modalities between human users and microscopic organisms and allows for unique playful and exploratory inter-species interactions.

Enrichment is a methodology for caregivers to offer zoo animals improved psychological and physiological well-being. Although many species rely on auditory senses, sonic enrichment is rarely implemented. Zoo soundscapes are dominated by human-generated noises and do not respond meaningfully to animals' behavior. Designing interactive sonic enrichment systems for animals presents unique ergonomic, ethical, and agency-related challenges. We present a case study of such design. We deployed two novel interventions at the San Diego Zoo to allow Sampson, a music-savvy hyacinth macaw, to gain control over his sonic environment. Our results suggest that (1) the bird uses, understands, and benefits from the system, and (2) visitors play a major role in Sampson's engagement with this technology. With his new agency, the bird seemingly gains more control over his interactions with the public, creating an interspecies experience mediated by technology. The resulting animal-human-computer interaction may inform mediated interspecies experiences in the future.

While the field of Animal-Computer Interaction is an emerging one, the main focus has still been on humans. ACI research often examines ways that giving animals technology can improve some aspect of a human’s life without considering the needs of the animals. A strikingly parallel problem has arisen in HCI as well - what does participatory design look like when working with the voiceless. In my research, using a dog’s connection to its owner as a starting point, I plan to utilise the findings from past HCI work while working with the dogs to design a technology that they actually would want to use.

The emerging discipline of Animal-Computer Interaction (ACI) aims to take what in Interaction Design is known as a user-centred approach to the design of technology intended for animals, placing them at the centre of the design process as stakeholders, users, and contributors. However, current regulatory frameworks for the involvement of animals in research are not animal-centred, regarding them as research instruments, unable to consent to procedures that may harm them, rather than consenting research participants and design contributors. Such frameworks aim to minimise the impacts of research procedures on the welfare of individual animals, but this minimisation is subordinated to specific scientific and societal interests, and to the integrity of the procedures required to serve those interests. From this standpoint, the universally advocated principles of replacement, reduction and refinement aim to address the ethical conflicts arising from the assumed inability of individual animals to consent to potentially harmful procedures, but such principles in fact reflect a lack of individual centrality.This paper makes the case for moving beyond existing regulations and guidelines towards an animal-centred framework that can better support the development of ACI as a discipline. Firstly, recognising animal welfare as a fundamental requirement for users and research participants alike, the paper articulates the implications of a welfare-centred ethics framework. Secondly, recognising consent as an essential requirement of participation, the paper also defines criteria for obtaining animals' mediated and contingent consent to engaging with research procedures. Further, the paper argues for the methodological necessity, as well as the ethical desirability, of such an animal-centred framework, examining the boundaries of its applicability as well as the benefits of its application. Finally, the paper puts forward a series of practical principles for conducting ACI research, which imply but also essentially exceed the welfare and ethics requirements of current regulatory frameworks. Propose an animal-centred ethical framework to support ACI development.Articulate the implications of a welfare-centred ethical approach.Define criteria for obtaining animals' mediated and contingent consent.Put forward a series of practical principles for conducting ACI research.

The increased involvement of animals in digital technology and user-computer research opens up for new possibilities and forms of interaction. It also suggests that the emerging field of Animal-Computer Interaction (ACI) needs to reconsider what should be counted as interaction. The most common already established forms of interaction are direct and dyadic, and limited to domesticated animals such as working dogs and pets. Drawing on an ethnography of the use of mobile proximity sensor cameras in ordinary wild boar hunting we emphasize a more complex, diffuse, and not directly observable form of interaction, which involves wild animals in a technological and naturalistic setting. Investigating human and boar activities related to the use of these cameras in the light of Actor-Network Theory (ANT) and Goffman's notion of strategic interaction reveals a gamelike interaction that is prolonged, networked and heterogeneous, in which members of each species is opposed the other in a mutual assessment acted out through a set of strategies and counter-strategies. We stress the role of theory for the field of ACI and how conceptualizations of interaction can be used to excite the imagination and be generative for design. Seeing interaction as strategies and acknowledging the existence of complex interdependencies could potentially inspire the design of more indirect and non-dyadic interactions where a priori simplifications of design challenges as either human or animal can be avoided. We present an ethnography of the use of mobile proximity sensor cameras in boar hunting.We stress the role of theory in Animal-Computer Interaction (ACI) and discuss the concept of interaction.We show how Actor-Network Theory (ANT) and strategic interaction can be combined to reveal and account for interactions that are indirect, heterogeneous, prolonged, and networked.We introduce concepts such as ontological symmetry, delegation, and program and anti-program, and show how interaction can be understood as strategies.We discuss how the theoretical foundations offered by ANT and strategic interaction can be generative in ACI design.

In this editorial to the IJHCS Special Issue on Animal-Computer Interaction (ACI), we provide an overview of the state-of-the-art in this emerging field, outlining the main scientific interests of its developing community, in a broader cultural context of evolving human-animal relations. We summarise the core aims proposed for the development of ACI as a discipline, discussing the challenges these pose and how ACI researchers are trying to address them. We then introduce the contributions to the Special Issue, showing how they illustrate some of the key issues that characterise the current state-of-the-art in ACI, and finally reflect on how the journey ahead towards developing an ACI discipline could be undertaken.

It can be considered the most systemic, deadly, and all-encompassing form of institutional violence that currently exists: speciesism, the oppression and exploitation of other animals. For most people on our planet, speciesism is something completely normalized, justified, and encouraged through many facets of dominant cultures. The field of critical/political animal studies, and other fields that challenge anthropocentrism, have already thoroughly problematized, questioned, and analyzed speciesist practices, but one topic receives little academic attention: what can a counter-concept to speciesism contain, without saying what it is not? This thesis is concerned with imagining ‘multispecies worldings’, with the goal to construct positive rather than negative aspects of a counter-concept to speciesism. Instead of offering a single answer, this work illustrates how additive knowledges regarding the possible meanings of ‘multispecies worlding’ make worlds richer. These knowledges emerge through a repertoire of world-making practices with other animals in which we recognize and engage with the ability to respond to each other. Thereby, this thesis answers to – and builds on – various scholarly and activist discourses, including posthumanism, welfarism, animal liberationism, and is theoretically grounded in feminist epistemologies. With a focus on negotiating possibilities, this dissertation is also a work of interaction design. The design practice involves tracing and negotiating multispecies responses with other animals and expressing those narratives as a design research program. These responses are presented as a Multispecies Bestiary, in which ten protagonist animals guide the reader through a collection of big-enough multispecies stories. The thesis thereby illustrates how humans can – together with other animals – find possible meanings of ‘multispecies worlding’ not as a single (broken) solution, but as ever-expanding directions that can permanently unsettle and unmake the established speciesist order.

This paper describes our research and the methodology used to design musical instruments and interfaces aimed at providing auditory enrichment for grey parrots living in captivity. Based on the cognitive, physiological, and acoustic abilities of grey parrots, and their intrinsic interest in acoustic and physical interactions, we have developed and tested various interactive instrument prototypes from an animal-centered design perspective. In a previous study, we analyzed the physical and musical skills of a group of grey parrots, and here we present our design results for auditory enrichment in the context of Animal Computer Interaction (ACI) and artistic research. Our investigation should lead to a better understanding of how grey parrots interact with technological mediators, respond to sound devices, and create "parrot music," with potential benefits for their wellbeing while living in captivity.

In many of the applications involving working canines, such as search and rescue operations and agriculture, drones are increasing in ubiquity. There has been some recent focus on training dogs to follow or interact with drones in such applications. From the Animal Computer Interaction (ACI) perspective, drones have the potential to monitor the dog's welfare when handlers are not in close proximity in such harsh environments. Our on going work has focused on canine welfare through the use of on-body sensors for monitoring behavior, physiology, and the micro-environment dogs are in. We have also used these technologies to explore computer-assisted training of canines and more recently included drones to complement these to assess the macro-environment dogs are working in. This work discusses the challenges and opportunities we learned during our efforts to include drones for computer-assisted interactions with working dogs. We focus on the enabling technology and it's implications for ACI when dogs and drones work together.

Animal Computer Interaction, aims to design user centered interactions that result in good user experiences (UX). During evaluation, the quality of the UX is assessed by measuring the degree to which the interaction between the user and the artefact meets the users' needs and preferences, as evidenced by their behavior. A key measure of the UX is usability. When evaluating usability for different species, ACI researchers face two major challenges: the differences in cognitive, physical and sensory capabilities between human evaluators and animal users, with the implications these differences have for assessing the users' behavior; and the human-centric focus of most usability evaluation methods currently available. To address these challenges, this paper proposes a Method for Evaluating Animal Usability (MEAU), here tailored to Mobility Assistance Dogs as the users, and illustrates its application during a study that compared the canine usability of different access controls.

Dogs are extremely common in the modern world, as pets or to help us as work animals. Despite their increasing popularity in both forms, our methods of communicating with them have not advanced much since their domestication. For even the most extensively trained working dogs, we rely on audial and visual cues to convey commands. In this work, we show that dogs can understand haptic cues. A vest embedded with vibration motors was designed to be worn by a dog. We trained a dog to associate four different types of vibrations with different commands, with good results. The dog successfully distinguished between vibrations, differing either in location or vibration type. Haptic communication can be used with working dogs or pets remotely, even in very noisy environments. It could also be used to communicate with deaf dogs, or facilitate communication between a pet and its speech-impaired owner.

Training a working dog for a role such as bomb detection or search and rescue can take years, incurring a large cost. As detection work requires visual and odor-based problem-solving abilities, we have started to investigate how to quantify these abilities to assess a dog's potential. Towards this goal, we studied if and how a dog can remotely drive a robot through a simple maze. In our feasibility study, the dogs interact with an affordance mounted on a raised platform which triggers robot movement while also providing visual feedback from the robot. This study evaluated three affordances (tug, button press, and proximity) on two participants to drive the robot through a straight course. By identifying the best robot-canine interaction method, we show the potential for canines extending visual problem-solving abilities to an external device.

In this paper we present an approach to designing wearer-centered biotelemetry for non-human (and human) animal wearers. Drawing from fundamental values and principles of user-centered design, we describe a wearer-centered framework to heuristically establish design requirements, which was used during a series of workshops to perform a requirements analysis for a cat-tracking device. The resulting requirements informed a feline-centered prototype whose wearability was evaluated with cat wearers. Compared to the wearability of previously tested off-the-shelf devices, our findings show an improvement and suggest that our framework-based approach can help design teams with a range of skills to systematically design for wearability.

In this paper, I use 'science fiction autoethnography' to reflect on conducting an imaginary, quantitative study. My fictional study is intended to evaluate a real-life artefact: the 'umamimi' robotic horse ears. This physical device provides a backdrop, against which my experiences and self-reflections are used to critique quantitative 'hard science'. My own cognitive bias, rigid attachment to a viewpoint and presumptions (concerning anticipated results) all provide the real story. When I conduct an imaginary study, what does the process and its speculative results say about my autobiographical story and both the object and subject's broader societal and cultural meanings?

This is a report of three ZooJams that have taken place at the annual Animal-Computer Interaction conference. The ZooJam is a type of workshop whose aim is to extend the reach of UX design beyond human experience in order to become inclusive of other species and their interactions with technology. As organisers, our attempts have knitted together colleagues from a range of disciplines, all focused on developing practical solutions to different environmental enrichment challenges.We describe the format of the event, explaining the rationale for this approach, showcase some of the crafted design outcomes and reflect on our experiences.

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[EN] Play is an essential activity for both humans and animals as it provides stimulation and favors cognitive, physical and social development. This paper proposes a novel pervasive playful environment that allows hospitalized children to participate in remote interspecies play with dogs in a dog daycare facility, while it also allows the dogs to play by themselves with the pervasive system. The aim of this playful interactive space is to help improving both children¿s and animal¿s wellbeing and their relationships by means of technologically mediated play, while creating a solid knowledge base to define the future of pervasive interactive environments for animals., This work is supported by the European Development Regional Fund (EDRF-FEDER), Spain and Spanish MINECO (TIN2014-60077-R). The work of Patricia Pons is supported by the Spanish MECD (FPU13/03831). Special thanks to the dogs and children who participated in our study, the dogs' owners and the children's families. The authors also gratefully acknowledge the teachers of the Unidad Pedagogica Hospitalaria La Fe and Oncologia Pediatrica La Fe and also Olga and Astrid from Buma's Doggy Daycare facility, for their invaluable support, collaboration and dedication.

Animal Computer Interaction (ACI) is a growing field of research for which the adaptation of tried and tested Human Computer Interaction (HCI) methods is of high interest to ACI developers and researchers. In this paper, we consider ACI practices in the context of developing and evaluating technologies to support repetitive assistance canine training, in which the animal in placed at the centre of the design process. We discuss issues and propose ways to adapt traditional HCI methods to meet the needs of canine training, and in particular the extended role of domain experts to achieve this.

Working dogs can perform many tasks that improve the lives of humans. An explosion of new technologies in Animal-Computer Interaction enable dogs to assist in a variety of scenarios. Dogs can summon emergency services, report finding a lost child, determine what explosive they just detected, alert to a tornado siren, and much more. Giving working dogs the ability to clearly communicate could be life-saving. Related technologies can measure aspects of a dog's behavior to assess temperament, predict training success, and even monitor health. The Georgia Tech Animal-Computer Interaction lab has been researching dog-centered interfaces since 2012. Our studies have included instrumented vests, touchscreens, and devices that provide new ways for dogs to communicate what they perceive to people around them. We have also researched instrumented dog toys for temperament analysis and health monitoring. For the ACI2018 demonstrations, we showcase the technologies we have developed for dogs and the new interactions these technologies enable.