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A new study involving University of Glasgow is helping pet parrots make video calls to each other, suggesting the birds may benefit from making new feathered friends over the internet 🦜💻 📍 University of Glasgow 🧍 Ilyena Hirskyj-Douglas 👇 Read & Comment glasgowcityofscienceandinnovation.com/university-of-…

New on the Wall: "No More Angry Birds: Investigating Touchscreen Ergonomics to Improve Tablet-Based Enrichment for Parrots" by Kleinberger, Cunha, McMahon & Hirskyj-Douglas Using TS for enrichment! touchscreencognition.org/2024/10/10/no-… Northeastern U. University of Glasgow

What a beautiful campus University of St Andrews has! Thank you for inviting me to talk about my animal-computing research @st_psy

My research group has been awarded a UFAW Large Grant to study the behaviour of Red-Ruff Lemurs to technology at Blair Drummond SP Zoo. For six months, Berkay Arslan will join the Animal-Computer Interaction group at GIST - Glasgow Interactive Systems UofG Computing Science - welcome!

TEDxManchester Herb Kim Carl Miller Simona Francese Chris Boardman CBE Rudy's Neapolitan Pizza Aaron Calvert Pamela Warhurst Kiran Morjaria Ilyena Hirskyj-Douglas leads us into the Animal Internet. Connect animals like never before—explore the digital frontier for our furry friends. 🌍 #TEDxManchester

What if we allowed animals to use the internet… When we start to think about it, we control a lot of our animals life. My dog video called me A LOT! I often ran out of things to talk about! Animals have social awareness and understanding of being online. They have deep and

TEDx Talk done! 🥳🎉

Rébecca Kleinberger and my research on optimising screens for parrots' tongue touches, published at CHI (shameless promoting dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/36…) is being featured in Highlights for Children's BrainPLAY Magazine

The John Robertson Bequest has awarded me funds to support my Animal-Computer Interaction research. Much growth has occurred in my four years as a lecturer, and one of the challenges has been securing funding for my research. I am thankful for this support!

Dear Grammarly, please introduce an "accept all" button. Grammarly is so slow and laggy when going through all these notifications.

Our paper "Animals' Entanglement with Technology: A Scoping Review" has been accepted to CHI 2025. Our comprehensive literature review analyses 795 works on animal-tech interaction across diverse contexts. Explore our dataset at findapaper.interactanimallab.com 📰

I am excited to be an invited speaker at the BCSWomen Lovelace colloquium today about my research in Animal-Computer Interaction. I'll share how animals, from zoo-housed lemurs to pet dogs, use technology to control their environments and even video call each other

New technology developed by Ilyena Hirskyj-Douglas of UofG Computing Science in partnership with Blair Drummond SP which allows zoo animals and their human visitors to share experiences could have positive benefits for both. Read more here: gla.ac.uk/news/headline_…

Jiaqi Wang presenting our paper today at CHI looking at how to support zoo animals and people in zoos. You can read more on the paper here dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/37… University of Glasgow Multimodal HCI Group

Research suggests that these chatty creatures may also benefit from virtually connecting with their peers. How did scientist teach them to initiate video chats? bit.ly/3EDtdhL 📸: Matthew Modoono / Northeastern University

Excited to present on "Future of interactive pet tech: giving animals choice & control" at Busan Content Market this month. Thanks to Busan Content Market, the city of Busan, and the South Korean Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism for the invitation ibcm.tv/sub/market/bcm…

I took part at the weekend with Falkirk Council 's Wild Science event falkirkherald.co.uk/news/people/fa… Children imagined the future of zoos learning about animals and technology. See my publication for info on the methods used dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/34… GIST - Glasgow Interactive Systems