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Title: Wearable Interfaces for Symbolic Communication by Working Dogs
Committee:
Dr. Howard, Advisor
Dr. Jackson, Co-Advisor
Dr. Moore, Chair
Dr. Inan
Abstract: The objective of the proposed research is to study and develop wearable systems that allow working dogs to communicate symbolic information in the form of alerts. For example, a guide dog could generate alerts telling the human to either 'wait' or 'go around’ a given obstacle, which currently they cannot do. Working dogs in search and rescue could communicate critical information beyond line of sight and hearing. Finally, during a seizure, medical alert dogs could request help from nearby humans. This work is focused on studying wearable systems capable of addressing the challenges in these scenarios. The first approach relies on wearable interfaces based on biting, tugging, and touching that working dogs can use to generate these alerts. The second approach relies on identifying and detecting gestures sensed from a collar-worn device that dogs can learn to perform to generate alerts under different working dog scenarios.
