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Remote interspecies interactions: Improving humans and animals wellbeing through mobile playful spaces

Alicia Carrion-plazaJavier JaenPatricia Pons

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Computer Networks and CommunicationsComputer scienceMobile application02 engineering and technologySpace (commercial competition)Child computer interactionAnimal computer interactionHuman–computer interactionInteractive environment0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineeringChild computer interactionRemote playbusiness.industrySocial changeComputingMilieux_PERSONALCOMPUTING020206 networking & telecommunicationsCognitionComputer Science ApplicationsAnimal computer interactionKnowledge baseHardware and Architecture020201 artificial intelligence & image processingbusinessLENGUAJES Y SISTEMAS INFORMATICOSSoftwareInformation Systems

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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.

yearjournalcountryeditionlanguage
2019-01-01
10.1016/j.pmcj.2018.12.003https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pmcj.2018.12.003