{"id":7149,"date":"2016-07-12T14:43:06","date_gmt":"2016-07-12T20:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=7149"},"modified":"2019-03-20T13:08:05","modified_gmt":"2019-03-20T19:08:05","slug":"uk-animal-behaviorists-computer-scientists-develop-horse-behavior-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/industry\/uk-animal-behaviorists-computer-scientists-develop-horse-behavior-software\/","title":{"rendered":"UK animal behaviorists, computer scientists develop horse behavior software"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A computer scientist with a passion for horses has embarked on an interdisciplinary animal-computer interaction research project which could help us understand what animals are thinking and feeling.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Steve North, a Research Fellow in the Mixed Reality Laboratory (MRL) at The University of Nottingham, is developing a Horse Automated Behaviour Identification Tool (HABIT) \u2013 new animal-computer interaction software. The aim is to identify horse behaviour from unconstrained (amateur) video so we humans can interpret those reactions and understand why they are happening.<\/p>\n<p>The research is being carried out in collaboration with Dr Mandy Roshier, an expert in anatomy and behaviour at the University&#8217;s School of Veterinary Medicine and Science, Dr Carol Hall, an expert in equitation science at Nottingham Trent University and Dr Clara Mancini, a senior lecturer in computer interaction design at the Open University.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at: <a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2016-07-animals-voicecomputer-software.html#jCp\">http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2016-07-animals-voicecomputer-software.html#jCp<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Human-computer interaction (HCI) is already well established. The emerging scientific discipline of animal-computer interaction (ACI) looks at the relationship between animals and technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,14],"tags":[541,543,540,542],"class_list":["post-7149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-equinews","category-industry","tag-equitation-science","tag-horse-automated-behaviour-identification-tool","tag-mixed-reality-laboratory","tag-the-university-of-nottingham"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7149"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8166,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7149\/revisions\/8166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}