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Vilma Kankaanpää, Fay E Clark, and Ilyena Hirskyj-Douglas. 2024. Lemur-Lounge: Lemurs’ Individual-Level, Group, and Cross-Species Use of an Interactive Audio Device in Zoos. In Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’24), May 11–16, 2024, Honolulu, HI, USA. ACM, NewYork,NY, USA, 14 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3613904.3641888 [PDF]

Jiaqi Wang, Stephen Brewster, and Ilyena Hirskyj-Douglas. 2024. Investigating Lemurs Sensory Modality in Technologies: How do Lemurs Engage with Single and Multimodal Stimuli in Zoos?. In Proceedings of Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’24). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 7 page https://doi.org/10.1145/3613905.3651056 [PDF]

Ilyena Hirskyj-Douglas, Jennifer Cunha, and Rebecca Kleinberger. 2024.
Call of the Wild Web: Parrot Engagement in Live vs. Pre-recorded Video
Calls. In Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’24), May 11–16, 2024, Honolulu, HI, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 14 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3613904.3641938 [PDF] [YouTube Talk]

Rébecca Kleinberger, Jennifer Cunha, Megan McMahon, and Ilyena Hirskyj- Douglas. 2024. No More Angry Birds: Investigating Touchscreen Ergonomics to Improve Tablet-Based Enrichment for Parrots. In Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’24), May 11– 16, 2024, Honolulu, HI, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 16 pages. https: //doi.org/10.1145/3613904.3642119

Alana Grant, Vilma Kankaanpää, and Ilyena Hirskyj-Douglas. 2023. Hum-ble Beginnings: Developing Touch- and Proximity-Input-Based Interfaces for Zoo-Housed Giraffes’ Audio Enrichment. Proc. ACM Hum.-Compt. Interact. 7, ISS, Article 434 (December 2023), 22 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3626470. [PDF]  [Honourable Mention Award]

Rebecca Kleinberger, Jennifer Cunha, Megha M Vemuri, and Ilyena Hirskyj-Douglas. 2023. Birds of a Feather Video-Flock Together: Design and Evaluation of an Agency-Based Parrot-to-Parrot Video-Calling System for Interspecies Ethical Enrichment. In Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 534, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1145/3544548.3581166 [Honourable Mention Award]

Vilma Kankaanpää and Ilyena Hirskyj-Douglas. 2023. Prototyping with Monkeys: Uncovering What Buttons for Monkeys Look Like. In TEI ’23: Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI ’23), February 26-March 1, 2023, Warsaw, Poland. ACM, NewYork,NY, USA, 13 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3569009.3572735 [PDF]

Ilyena Hirskyj-Douglas and Vilma Kankaanpää. 2022. Do MonkeysWant Audio or Visual Stimuli? Interactive Computers for Choice with White-Faced Sakis in Zoos. In DIS ’22, June 13–17, 2022, Virtual Event, Australia. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3532106.3533577 [PDF]

Ilyena Hirskyj-Douglas, Roosa Piitulainen, and Andrés Lucero. 2021. Forming the Dog Internet: Prototyping a Dog-to-Human Video Call Device. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 5, ISS, Article 494 (November 2021), 20 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3488539[PDF][YouTube talk]

Ilyena Hirskyj-Douglas and Sarah Webber. 2021. Reflecting on Methods in Animal Computer Interaction: Novelty Effect and Habituation. In Eight International Conference on Animal-Computer Interaction (ACI’21), November 8–11, 2021, Bloomington, IN, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 11 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3493842.3493893 [Preprint PDF] [YouTube talk]

Ilyena Hirskyj-Douglas and Vilma Kankaanpää, 2021. Exploring How White-Faced Sakis Control Digital Visual Enrichment Systems. Animals. 11(2), 557.   https://doi.org/10.3390/ani11020557 [PDF] [Open Access Software & Data]

Fiona French, Ilyena Hirskyj-Douglas, Heli Väätäjä, Patricia Pons, Sabrina Karl, Yoram Chisik, Eleonora Nannoni et al. 2021. Ethics and Power Dynamics in Playful Technology for Animals: Using speculative design to provoke reflection. In Academic Mindtrek 2021, pp. 91-101. https://doi.org/10.1145/3464327.3464366 [PDF]

Ilyena Hirskyj-Douglas, Stuart Gray, and Roosa Piitulainen. 2021. ZooDesign: Methods for Understanding and Facilitating Children’s Education at Zoos. In IDC ’21: ACM Symposium on Human Factors in Computing Systems, June 24th-30th, 2021, Virtual. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 19 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3459990.3460697 [PDF] [Animal Cards] [Enrichment Cards] [Ideation Sheets]

Roosa Piitulainen and Ilyena Hirskyj-Douglas. 2020. Music for Monkeys: Building Methods to Design with White-Faced Sakis for Animal-Driven Audio Enrichment Devices. Animals.  10(10):1768.  https://doi.org/10.3390/ani10101768[PDF] [Open Access Software & Data]

Ilyena Hirskyj-Douglas and Roosa Piitulainen. 2020. Developing Zoo Technology Requirements for White- Faced Saki Monkeys.In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Animal-Computer Interaction (ACI’2020). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 3, 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1145/3446002.3446123[PDF]

Ilyena Hirskyj-Douglas and Andrés Lucero. 2019. On the Internet, Nobody Knows You’re a Dog… Unless You’re Another Dog. In 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Proceedings (CHI 2019), May 4–9, 2019, Glasgow, Scotland, UK. ACM, New York, NY, USA.  https://doi.org/10.1145/3290605.3300347[PDF][YouTube talk]

Ilyena Hirskyj-Douglas and Janet C. Read. 2018. ­­­­­­­­­­DoggyVision: Examining how Dogs (Canis familiaris) Interact with Media using a Dog-Driven Proximity Tracker Device. Journal of Animal Behaviour and Cognition. 5(4), 388-405.
https://doi.org/10.26451/abc.05.04.06.2018 [PDF] [Open Access Software]

Ilyena Hirskyj-Douglas, Patricia Pons, Janet C. Read, and Javier Jaen. 2018. Seven Years after the Manifesto: Literature Review and Research Directions for Technologies in Animal Computer Interaction. Multimodal Technologies and Interaction, 2(2), p.30. 
https://doi.org/10.3390/mti2020030 [PDF]

Ilyena Hirskyj-Douglas, Janet C. Read and Brendan Cassidy. 2017. A dog centred approach to the analysis of dogs’ interactions with media on TV screens. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies. Special Issue: Animal Computer Interaction. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhcs.2016.05.007 [PDF]

Ilyena Hirskyj-Douglas, Janet C. Read and Matthew Horton. 2017. Animal Personas: Representing Dog Stakeholders in Interaction Design. In British Human-Computer Interaction proceedings, 3-6 July, 2017, Sunderland, UK. ACM, New York, NY, USA. 
http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/HCI2017.37 [PDF]

Ilyena Hirskyj-Douglas and Janet C. Read. 2016. Using Behavioural Information to Help Owners Gather Requirements from their Dogs’s Responses to Media Technology. In Proceedings of the 30th International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference: Fusion! (HCI ’16). BCS Learning & Development Ltd., Swindon, UK, Article 42, 13 pages. https://doi.org/10.14236/ewic/HCI2016.42 [PDF]

Ilyena Hirskyj-Douglas and Janet C. Read. 2014. Who Is Really In The Center Of Dog Computer Design?. In Proceedings of the 2014 Workshops on Advances in Computer Entertainment Conference (ACE ’14 Workshops). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Article 2, 5 pages.
https://doi.org/10.1145/2693787.2693793 [PDF]