Ellie Talks About the Weather: Toward Evaluating the Expressive and Enrichment Potential of a Tablet-Based Speech Board in a Single Goffin’s Cockatoo
CHI '24: Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems May 11–16, 2024, Honolulu, HI, USA
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| author | Cunha, Jennifer Renguette, Corinne C Singh, Nikhil Stella, Lily Mcmahon, Megan Jin, Hao Kleinberger, Rebecca |
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| author_facet | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Media Laboratory Cunha, Jennifer Renguette, Corinne C Singh, Nikhil Stella, Lily Mcmahon, Megan Jin, Hao Kleinberger, Rebecca |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1551962024-12-23T06:01:20Z Ellie Talks About the Weather: Toward Evaluating the Expressive and Enrichment Potential of a Tablet-Based Speech Board in a Single Goffin’s Cockatoo Cunha, Jennifer Renguette, Corinne C Singh, Nikhil Stella, Lily Mcmahon, Megan Jin, Hao Kleinberger, Rebecca Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Media Laboratory CHI '24: Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems May 11–16, 2024, Honolulu, HI, USA Augmentative and alternative communication devices (AACs) are designed to assist humans with complex communication needs. Recently, AAC use has been reported in non-human animals. Such tools may potentially provide enrichment and increase interspecies connection. However, there is no evaluation framework and little data available to assess AAC potential. Here, we examine seven months of a single parrot’s sustained use of a tablet-based AAC totaling 129 sessions within 190 days. After devising a coding schema, we propose a framework to explore the expressive potential and enrichment value for the parrot. Our results suggest that the choice of destination words cannot be simply explained based on random selection or icon location alone, and 92% of corroborable selections are validated by behaviors. The parrot interactions also appear significantly skewed toward social and cognitive enrichment. This work is a first step toward assessment of AAC use for parrot enrichment. 2024-06-05T16:05:09Z 2024-06-05T16:05:09Z 2024-05-11 2024-06-01T07:55:10Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/ConferencePaper 979-8-4007-0330-0 https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/155196 Cunha, Jennifer, Renguette, Corinne C, Singh, Nikhil, Stella, Lily, Mcmahon, Megan et al. 2024. "Ellie Talks About the Weather: Toward Evaluating the Expressive and Enrichment Potential of a Tablet-Based Speech Board in a Single Goffin’s Cockatoo." PUBLISHER_POLICY en 10.1145/3613904.3643654 Article is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use. The author(s) application/pdf ACM Association for Computing Machinery |
| spellingShingle | Cunha, Jennifer Renguette, Corinne C Singh, Nikhil Stella, Lily Mcmahon, Megan Jin, Hao Kleinberger, Rebecca Ellie Talks About the Weather: Toward Evaluating the Expressive and Enrichment Potential of a Tablet-Based Speech Board in a Single Goffin’s Cockatoo |
| title | Ellie Talks About the Weather: Toward Evaluating the Expressive and Enrichment Potential of a Tablet-Based Speech Board in a Single Goffin’s Cockatoo |
| title_full | Ellie Talks About the Weather: Toward Evaluating the Expressive and Enrichment Potential of a Tablet-Based Speech Board in a Single Goffin’s Cockatoo |
| title_fullStr | Ellie Talks About the Weather: Toward Evaluating the Expressive and Enrichment Potential of a Tablet-Based Speech Board in a Single Goffin’s Cockatoo |
| title_full_unstemmed | Ellie Talks About the Weather: Toward Evaluating the Expressive and Enrichment Potential of a Tablet-Based Speech Board in a Single Goffin’s Cockatoo |
| title_short | Ellie Talks About the Weather: Toward Evaluating the Expressive and Enrichment Potential of a Tablet-Based Speech Board in a Single Goffin’s Cockatoo |
| title_sort | ellie talks about the weather toward evaluating the expressive and enrichment potential of a tablet based speech board in a single goffin s cockatoo |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/155196 |
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