Dog and augmented reality soccer

(via fabien) For intrepid readers only: an intriguing video of a dog playing augmented reality football on a reactrix setting.

Why do I blog this? food for thoughts for a near future laboratory project about “new interaction partners”, or how pets can be partners in technologically mediated interactions. This seems to be a pertinent example and the immersion appears to be working (especially the dog owner who is encouraging the animal). Don’t know about the animal frustration or whether this is good or bad.

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2 Responses to “Dog and augmented reality soccer”

  1. huskyblack Says:
    March 23rd, 2007 at 9:22 am

    It is possible to use pets as partners in such interactions, but not in way similar to this. Dogs (or cats) will be inclined to please their owners and they will do it even if theyy “feel stupid” and that is abuse of animals. If this clip is longer, howlong would it take for the dog to stop playing?

  2. Stefano Baraldi Says:
    March 23rd, 2007 at 8:40 pm

    We often used this method with the two cats Jobs and Clementina at Natural Interaction, when testing the SensitiveFloor :)
    It was also so good when were debugging an application and you didn’t want to continuosly go back and forth between the laptop and the floor…
    Good debugging partners..

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