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  1. Acquire and make easily accessible to zoo and aquarium professionals the current body of knowledge on animal welfare and ethics.
  2. Conduct and facilitate welfare assessments and applied welfare research on captive exotic animals.
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The quest to develop automated systems for monitoring animal behavior

Authors: Janice M. Siegford, Juan P. Steibel, Junjie Han, Madonna Benjamin, Tami Brown-Brandl, Joao R. R. Dórea, Daniel Morris, Tomas Norton, Eric Psota, Guilherme J. M. Rosa

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: animal behavior, Automated monitoring technology, observation, sensors

2023

Do Monkeys Want Audio or Visual Stimuli? Interactive Computers for Choice with White-Faced Sakis in Zoos

Authors: Ilyena Hirskyj-Douglas, Vilma Kankaanpää

Publication/Journal: Designing Interactive Systems Conference

Keywords: animal-computer-interaction, audio analysis, monkey, preference, primate, stimuli, visual

2022

Exploring How White-Faced Sakis Control Digital Visual Enrichment Systems

Authors: Ilyena Hirskyj-Douglas, Vilma Kankaanpää

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: animal technology, animal-computer-interaction, visual enrichment, white-faced saki

2021

Choice, Control and Computers: Empowering Wildlife in Human Care

Authors: Jon Coe, Julia Hoy

Publication/Journal: Multimodal Technologies and Interaction

Keywords: animal-centered technology (ACT), captive, choice, conservation, enrichment, exhibit, reintroduction, wildlife, zoo

2020

Implementing portable touchscreen-setups to enhance cognitive research and enrich zoo-housed animals

Authors: Vanessa Schmitt

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research

Keywords: animal-computer-interaction, birds, comparative cognition, enrichment, primates, social group, touchscreen technology, welfare

2019

Monitoring the behavior and habitat use of animals to enhance welfare using the ZooMonitor app

Authors: JD Wark, KA Cronin, T Niemann, MA Shender, A Horrigan, A Kao, MR Ross

Publication/Journal: Animal Behavior and Cognition

Keywords: animal welfare, behavior analysis, behavioral monitoring, ethology, observational data, zoo

2019

Technology advancing the study of animal cognition: using virtual reality to present virtually simulated environments to investigate nonhuman primate spatial cognition

Authors: Francine L. Dolins, Kenneth Schweller, Scott Milne

Publication/Journal: Current Zoology

Keywords:

2017

The birth of an infant decreases group spacing in a zoo-housed lowland gorilla group (Gorilla gorilla gorilla)

Authors: Laura M. Kurtycz, Marisa A. Shender, Stephen R. Ross

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: group cohesion, group composition, proximity, social spacing, western lowland gorillas

2014

Effects of freely accessible computerized test systems on the spontaneous behaviors and stress level of Guinea baboons (Papio papio)

Authors: Joël Fagot, Julie Gullstrand, Caralyn Kemp, Céline Defilles, Mourad Mekaouche

Publication/Journal: American Journal of Primatology

Keywords: automatic testing, cognition, primate, welfare

2014

Using multiple joystick systems in computerised enrichment for captive orangutans

Authors: S. Mallavarapu, M. A. Bloomsmith, C. W. Kuhar, T. L. Maple

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, automated feeder, computers, enrichment, joystick, orangutans

2013

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