Webber Sarah, Cobb Mia L, Coe Jon
Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, School of Computing and Information Systems, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia.
Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences, Animal Welfare Science Centre, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia.
Front Vet Sci. 2022 Jun 30;9:885973. doi: 10.3389/fvets.2022.885973. eCollection 2022.
Digital technologies offer new ways to ensure that animals can lead a good life in managed settings. As interactive enrichment and smart environments appear in zoos, farms, shelters, kennels and vet facilities, it is essential that the design of such technologies be guided by clear, scientifically-grounded understandings of what animals need and want, to be successful in improving their wellbeing. The field of Animal-Computer Interaction proposes that this can be achieved by centering animals as stakeholders in technology design, but there remains a need for robust methods to support interdisciplinary teams in placing animals' interests at the heart of design projects. Responding to this gap, we present the Welfare through Competence framework, which is grounded in contemporary animal welfare science, established technology design practices and applied expertise in animal-centered design. The framework brings together the "Five Domains of Animal Welfare" model and the "Coe Individual Competence" model, and provides a structured approach to defining animal-centric objectives and refining them through the course of a design project. In this paper, we demonstrate how design teams can use this framework to promote positive animal welfare in a range of managed settings. These much-needed methodological advances contribute a new theoretical foundation to debates around the possibility of animal-centered design, and offer a practical agenda for creating technologies that support a good life for animals.
数字技术提供了新的途径，以确保动物能够在管理环境中过上良好的生活。随着互动式丰富活动和智能环境出现在动物园、农场、收容所、 kennels 和兽医设施中，至关重要的是，此类技术的设计应以对动物的需求和欲望的清晰、有科学依据的理解为指导，以便成功改善它们的福祉。动物 - 计算机交互领域提出，可以通过将动物作为技术设计的利益相关者来实现这一点，但仍然需要强大的方法来支持跨学科团队将动物的利益置于设计项目的核心。为了应对这一差距，我们提出了 “通过能力实现福利” 框架，该框架基于当代动物福利科学、既定的技术设计实践以及以动物为中心的设计方面的应用专业知识。该框架将 “动物福利的五个领域” 模型和 “Coe 个人能力” 模型结合在一起，并提供了一种结构化方法来定义以动物为中心的目标，并在设计项目过程中对其进行完善。在本文中，我们展示了设计团队如何使用该框架在一系列管理环境中促进积极的动物福利。这些急需的方法学进展为围绕以动物为中心的设计可能性的辩论贡献了新的理论基础，并为创建支持动物美好生活的技术提供了一个实际议程。
