Ethical Issues and Guidelines when Conducting HCI Studies with Animals

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn 2013-April, Issue , 2013, Pages 2159-2168

  Väätäjä, Heli K ^a   Pesonen, Emilia K ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Animal; Animal Computer Interaction; Ethics; Guideline; Human Animal Interaction; Pet; Technology; Welfare

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; HUMAN ENGINEERING; PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS; POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATES;

ANIMAL-COMPUTER INTERACTIONS; ETHICS; GUIDELINE; HUMAN-ANIMAL INTERACTIONS; WELFARE;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 85040739616     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2468356.2468736     Document Type: Conference Paper

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