Topic: training protocols

Touchscreens can support animal research, enrichment and communication across species. Jennifer Taylor-O’Connor explains practical training protocols and how interfaces must accommodate species-specific perception and behaviour. The seminar considers experimental and enrichment uses alongside ethical design: how appropriate interfaces and training can enable meaningful animal participation.

Many situations rely on the accurate identification of people with whom we are unfamiliar. For example, security at airports or in police investigations require the identification of individuals from photo-ID. Yet, the identification of unfamiliar faces is error prone, even for practitioners who routinely perform this task. Indeed, even training protocols often yield no discernible improvement. The challenge of unfamiliar face identification is often thought of as a perceptual problem; however, this assumption ignores the potential role of decision-making and its contributing factors (e.g., cr