Communication technology for human-dog interaction: Exploration of dog owners' experiences and expectations

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 2641-2650

  Paldanius, Mikko ^a   Kärkkäinen, Tuula ^b   Väänänen Vainio Mattila, Kaisa ^b   Juhlin, Oskar ^c   Häkkilä, Jonna ^a  

^a NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^c SWEDISH INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Communication technology; Dogs; User experience

Indexed keywords

'CURRENT; COMMUNICATIONTECHNOLOGY; CURRENT TECHNOLOGY; DOG; FUTURE APPLICATIONS; INTEGRAL PART; LESSON LEARNT; USABILITY PROBLEMS; USER GROUPS; USERS' EXPERIENCES;

EID: 79958084625     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1978942.1979329     Document Type: Conference Paper

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