Understanding guide dog team interactions: Design opportunities to support work and play

Proceedings of the Conference on Designing Interactive Systems: Processes, Practices, Methods, and Techniques, DIS

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 295-304

  Hauser, Sabrina ^a   Wakkary, Ron ^a   Neustaedter, Carman ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Guide dogs; Human animal interaction, animal computer interaction; Human canine interaction; Interactive systems design; Team interaction; Visually impaired

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; RESEARCH;

ANIMAL-COMPUTER INTERACTIONS; GUIDE DOGS; HUMAN-CANINE INTERACTION; INTERACTIVE SYSTEM; TEAM INTERACTION; VISUALLY IMPAIRED;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 84904497953     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2598510.2598531     Document Type: Conference Paper

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