Boffins create phone for lonely dogs

Stefan Mileschin · 23rd November 2021, 08:41

Calling your owner on the dog and bone

Boffins have created a hi-tech option for canines left home alone: a ball that allows them to call their owners on the old dog and bone.

The device -- nicknamed the DogPhone -- is a soft ball that, when moved, sends a signal to a laptop that launches a video call, and the sound of a ringing telephone. The owner can choose whether to take the call, and when to hang up, while they can also place a call to their pet -- although the dog has to move the ball to pick up.

The research, which is published in the Proceedings of the Association for Computing Machinery on Computer-Human interaction and is being presented at the 2021 ACM Interactive Surfaces and Spaces Conference in Lodz, Poland, reveals how Dr Ilyena Hirskyj-Douglas, of the University of Glasgow, and first author of the research and researchers from Aalto University in Finland settled on a soft ball to create the device.

https://fudzilla.com/news/mobile/539...or-lonely-dogs

23rd November 2021, 08:41	#1
Stefan Mileschin [M] Reviewer Join Date: May 2010 Location: Romania Posts: 153,514	Boffins create phone for lonely dogs Calling your owner on the dog and bone Boffins have created a hi-tech option for canines left home alone: a ball that allows them to call their owners on the old dog and bone. The device -- nicknamed the DogPhone -- is a soft ball that, when moved, sends a signal to a laptop that launches a video call, and the sound of a ringing telephone. The owner can choose whether to take the call, and when to hang up, while they can also place a call to their pet -- although the dog has to move the ball to pick up. The research, which is published in the Proceedings of the Association for Computing Machinery on Computer-Human interaction and is being presented at the 2021 ACM Interactive Surfaces and Spaces Conference in Lodz, Poland, reveals how Dr Ilyena Hirskyj-Douglas, of the University of Glasgow, and first author of the research and researchers from Aalto University in Finland settled on a soft ball to create the device. https://fudzilla.com/news/mobile/539...or-lonely-dogs

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