Interview with Clara Mancini

Authors

  • Fabrício Fava Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade do Porto
  • Clara Mancini Universidade Aberta

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.23925/1984-3585.2020i22p21-32

Abstract

Clara Mancini is a professor of Interaction Design at the School of Computing and Communications at Universidade Aberta. She is the founder and leader of the Animal-Computer Interaction Laboratory. Clara is particularly interested in the methodological challenges and opportunities for innovation caused by Animal-Computer Interaction (IAC), and without the potential to contribute to this emergency discipline for human and animal well-being, social inclusion, interspecies cooperation and environmental restoration. Clara has served as a principal investigator on IAC projects and supervised a variety of doctoral research on IAC, including ubiquitous and environmental interfaces for mobility assistance dogs and medical detection, interactive enrichment for captive elephants and wearable animal biotelemetry.

Clara Mancini was interviewed by Fabrício Fava on June 17, 2020, via Zoom.

Author Biographies

Fabrício Fava, Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade do Porto

Doutor em Comunicação e Semiótica pela PUC-SP. Pesquisador integrado do Instituto de Investigação em Arte, Design e Sociedade (I2ADS), Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade do Porto.

Clara Mancini, Universidade Aberta

Professora de Design de Interação na escola de Computação e Comunicações da Universidade Aberta.

References

ANIMAL-COMPUTER INTERACTION LAB, open.ac.uk/blogs/ACI/

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PACI, P.; MANCINi, C.; PRICE, B. Wearer-Centered Design for Animal Biotelemetry: Implementation and Wearability Test of a Prototype. Proc. International Symposium on Wearable Computing, ACM ISWC’19, ACM Press, p. 177-185, 2019.

ROBINSON, C.; MANCINI, C., VAN DER LINDEN, J., Guest, C., Harris, R. Canine-Centered Interface Design: Supporting the Work of Diabetes Alert Dogs. Proc. International ACM chi Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI’14, ACM Press, p. 3757-3766, 2014.

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