Animal welfare, agency, and animal-computer interaction
Animal welfare, agency, and animal-computer interaction
Recent discussions in animal welfare have emphasised the importance of animal agency – the ability of animals to make choices and exert control over their environment in a way that aligns with their needs and preferences. In this paper we discuss the importance of animal agency for welfare, and examine how use of some types of animal-computer interaction can enable animals to exercise more agency in captive environments through increased choice and control, cognitive challenge, and social interactions; as well as considering some of the potential limitations of such efforts.
agency, animal welfare, animal–computer interaction, challenge, choice, control
Browning, Heather
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Veit, Walter
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15 January 2025
Browning, Heather
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Veit, Walter
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Browning, Heather and Veit, Walter
(2025)
Animal welfare, agency, and animal-computer interaction.
Animals, 15 (2), [219].
(doi:10.3390/ani15020219).
Abstract
Recent discussions in animal welfare have emphasised the importance of animal agency – the ability of animals to make choices and exert control over their environment in a way that aligns with their needs and preferences. In this paper we discuss the importance of animal agency for welfare, and examine how use of some types of animal-computer interaction can enable animals to exercise more agency in captive environments through increased choice and control, cognitive challenge, and social interactions; as well as considering some of the potential limitations of such efforts.
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Browning Veit animal agency and ACI
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Accepted/In Press date: 21 December 2024
Published date: 15 January 2025
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agency, animal welfare, animal–computer interaction, challenge, choice, control
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/497989
ISSN: 2076-2615
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Heather Browning
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Walter Veit
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