Animal–Computer Interaction: Advances and Opportunities—Second Edition
A special issue of Animals (ISSN 2076-2615).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 August 2026 | Viewed by 59
Special Issue Editors
Interests: animal–computer interaction; game design; virtual and augmented reality; physical computing; interaction design; environmental enrichment; HCI
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Interests: primates behavior; animal behavior; cognition and conservation; animal–computer interaction
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In this Special Issue, we continue to share new research and developments in the field of animal–computer interaction, seeking to explore how technology can help enhance multi-species harmony across a range of contexts.
We invite articles, including reports, case-studies, reviews, methods and perspectives, that describe the use of different techniques to further human understanding around non-human perception and cognition. In particular, we encourage authors to address the following areas in their submissions:
- How technology can be refined so that it becomes more animal friendly;
- How to design systems that offer other animals more control over their experiences with technology and what insights this can bring to the animal welfare and research communities and to the design team;
- How to enhance the human–animal relationship in different contexts, including our relationships with wild, domesticated, managed, working, and laboratory animals;
- How to engage with non-humans using activities connected with cognition, recognising that all species must use their individual senses to perceive the outside world before being able to interpret it;
- How humans can learn more about non-human perception and how this might inform conservation, system design, route-planning, and impacts on the environment;
- How to investigate conspecific and interspecies communication strategies;
- How to leverage sensor technologies and computer vision, not only to monitor animal behaviour but also to enable enriching, animal-initiated activities.
Dr. Fiona French
Dr. Christopher Flynn Martin
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Animals is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.
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Keywords
- animal–computer interaction
- environmental enrichment
- interaction design
- non-human perception
- animal cognition
- behaviour analysis
- technology for animals
- automated methods
- conservation
- emotional health and wellbeing
- artificial intelligence
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