Publications

2025

keeping it trunky: engineering improvements for enabling long-term interactive enrichment

Arianna Mastali, Caden Prather, Charles Ramey, Kirby Miller, Nathan Elgart,Thad Starner, and Melody Jackson. ACI 2025

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Detection of Weight Distribution With an Electronically Augmented Bareback Pad During Therapy Using Equine Movement

Thomas Chan, Rossy Dang, Vijay Shastri, Arianna Mastali, Sophie Clyde, Annie Zhang, Caden Prather, Bethany Nugent, Thad Starner, Melody Jackson. ACI 2025.

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AGILE: Utilizing structured activity data to analyze variations in canine physical performance

Charles Ramey, Arielle Markley, Rachel Olson, Melody Jackson. JSWK9 2025.

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2024

Shelling Out the Fun: Quantifying Otter Interactions with Instrumented Enrichment Objects

Charles Ramey, Jason Jones, Kristen Hannigan, Elizabeth Sadtler, Jennifer Odell, Thad Starner, Melody Jackson. ACI 2024.

Received Best Emerging Work Paper and Best Presentation Award.

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Play That Trunky Music: Development of an Auditory Enrichment Device for Elephants in Zoos

Arianna Mastali, Benjamin Mayo, Charles Ramey, Nate Elgart, Kirby Miller, Melody Jackson. ACI 2024.

Received Honorable Mention for Best Presentation Award.

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Rosetta Bone: Bridging the Language Gap Between Dogs and Humans with A QR Code-Enabled Communication System

Chengkai Yao, Bailey Aiken, Omkar Gokhale, Wuyuqing Yang, Melody Jackson. ACI 2024.

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Towards Haptic Communication with Working Dogs in Distracting Environments

Elijah Hopper, Vaishu Adimulam, Melody Jackson. ACI 2024.

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Agility as a biomechanical playground: Extracting canine gait signatures for performance analysis and injury prevention

Charles Ramey, Jonathan Womack, Brendan Seitz, Arielle Markley, Rachel Olson, Thad Starner, Melody Jackson. ABC Abstracts 2024.

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Wearable Activity Monitor Detection of Rhythmicity in Canine Agility Weaving Performance

Arielle Markley, Charles Ramey, Rachel Olson, Brendan Seitz, Abigail Shoben, Melody Jackson. VCOT Canine Podium Abstracts 2024.

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2023

AGILE: AGility Innovations Leveraging Electronics – Detecting and Quantifying Dog Agility Behaviors

Charles Ramey, Arielle Markley, Rachel Olson, Aayahna Herbert, Vanessa Lin, Brendan Seitz, Melody Jackson. ACI 2023.

Received Best Presentation Award.

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KitBit: An Instrumented Collar for Indoor Pets

William Goodall, Flynt Wallace, Melody Jackson. ACI 2023.

Received Best Presentation Award.

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Using Twitter Data to Evaluate Pangolin Conservation Awareness

Hannah Murray and Melody Jackson. ACI 2023.

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AccelerATE: Accelerometer-based Quantification of Dog Chewing

Arianna Mastali, Charles Ramey, Aditya Akula, Lydia Burns, Dipti Gupte, Melody Jackson. ACI 2023.

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Wireless Sensor Collar for Automatic Recognition of Canine Agility Activities

Charles Ramey, Arianna Mastali, Adithya Muralikrishna, Thad Starner, Melody Jackson. ISWC 2023.

Received Honorable Mention for Best Paper.

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Markerless motion capture for evaluation of biomechanical strategies in agility teeter performance

Arielle Markley, Rachel Olson, Charles Ramey, Melody Jackson. ICEL 2023.

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Evaluation of DeepLabCut for markerless tracking of dogs performing agility behaviors

Rachel Olson, Arielle Markley, Charles Ramey, Melody Jackson. ICEL 2023.

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2022

WAG’D: Towards a Wearable Activity and Gait Detection Monitor for Sled Dogs

Charles Ramey, Arianna Mastali, Cole Anderson, Will Stull, Thad Starner, Melody Jackson. ACI 2022.

Received Best Presentation Award.

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Detecting Canine Mastication: A Wearable Approach

Charles Ramey, Sarah Krichbaum, Arianna Mastali, Jodie Lin, Thad Starner, Melody Jackson. ACI 2022.

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Quantifying canine interactions with smart toys assesses suitability for service dog work

Ceara Byrne, Thad Starner, Melody Jackson. Frontiers in Veterinary Science.

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2021

Wearable sensors for canine nosework sniffing interaction

Xingyu Li, Wendell Hom, Jiaying Wu, Michael Verges, Melody Jackson. ACI 2021.

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2019

Dog-Driven Robot: Towards Quantifying Problem-Solving Abilities in Dogs

Ceara Byrne, Jacob Logas, Larry Freil, Courtney Allen, Melissa Baltrusaitis, Vi Nguyen, Christopher Saad, Melody Jackson. ACI 2019.

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2018

Dogs Using Touchscreens in the Home: A Case Study for Assistance Dogs Operating Emergency Notification Systems

Ceara Byrne, Clint Zeagler, Larry Freil, Allison Rapoport, Melody Jackson. ACI 2018.

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A toolkit for animal touchscreen slider design

Jacob Logas, Will Mitchell, Monira Khan, Lorita Freeman, Clint Zeagler, Melody Moore Jackson. ACI 2018.

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Technology for working dogs

Melody Moore Jackson, Ceara Byrne, Larry Freil, Giancarlo Valentin, Jay Zuerndorfer, Clint Zeagler, Jacob Logas, Scott Gilliland, Allison Rapoport, Shuyi Sun, Devon Peet, Andrea Lau, Xiaochuang Han, Joelle Alcaidinho, Thad Starner. ACI 2018.

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Predicting the suitability of service animals using instrumented dog toys

Ceara Byrne, Jay Zuerndorfer, Larry Freil, Xiaochuang Han, Andrew Sirolly, Scott Gilliland, Thad Starner, Melody Jackson. IMWUT.

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2017

Canine-centered computing

Larry Freil, Ceara Byrne, Giancarlo Valentin, Clint Zeagler, David Roberts, Thad Starner, Melody Jackson. Foundations and Trends® in Human–Computer Interaction.

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Mobile Collaboration for Human and Canine Police Explosive Detection Teams

Joelle Alcaidinho, Larry Freil, Taylor Kelly, Kayla Marland, Chunhui Wu, Bradley Wittenbrook, Giancarlo Valentin, Melody Jackson. CSCW 2017.

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A method to evaluate haptic interfaces for working dogs

Ceara Byrne, Larry Freil, Thad Starner, Melody Moore Jackson. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies.

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2016

Training collar-sensed gestures for canine communication

Joelle Alcaidinho, Giancarlo Valentin, Gregory D Abowd, Melody Jackson. ACI 2016.

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Canine computer interaction: Towards designing a touchscreen interface for working dogs

Clint Zeagler, Jay Zuerndorfer, Andrea Lau, Larry Freil, Scott Gilliland, Thad Starner, Melody Moore Jackson. ACI 2016.

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Search and rescue: dog and handler collaboration through wearable and mobile interfaces

Clint Zeagler, Ceara Byrne, Giancarlo Valentin, Larry Freil, Eric Kidder, James Crouch, Thad Starner, Melody Moore Jackson. ACI 2016.

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Creating collar-sensed motion gestures for dog-human communication in service applications

Giancarlo Valentin, Joelle Alcaidinho, Ayanna Howard, Melody M Jackson, Thad Starner. ISWC 2016.

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2015

Towards a canine-human communication system based on head gestures

Giancarlo Valentin, Joelle Alcaidinho, Ayanna Howard, Melody M Jackson, Thad Starner. ACE 2015.

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The challenges of wearable computing for working dogs

Giancarlo Valentin, Joelle Alcaidinho, Melody M Jackson. UbiComp/ISWC 2015.

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Leveraging mobile technology to increase the permanent adoption of shelter dogs

Joelle Alcaidinho, Giancarlo Valentin, Stephanie Tai, Brian Nguyen, Krista Sanders, Melody Jackson, Eric Gilbert, Thad Starner. MOBILEHCI 2015.

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2014

Going to the dogs: towards an interactive touchscreen interface for working dogs

Clint Zeagler, Scott Gilliland, Larry Freil, Thad Starner, Melody Jackson. UIST 2014.

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Canine reachability of snout-based wearable inputs

Giancarlo Valentin, Joelle Alcaidinho, Larry Freil, Clint Zeagler, Melody Jackson, Thad Starner. ISWC 2014.

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Two-way communication between working dogs and their handlers

Ceara Byrne, Ryan Kerwin, Jay Zuerndorfer, Scott Gilliland, Zehua Guo, Melody Jackson, Thad E Starner. IEEE Pervasive Computing.

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2013

FIDO-facilitating interactions for dogs with occupations: wearable dog-activated interfaces

Melody Moore Jackson, Clint Zeagler, Giancarlo Valentin, Alex Martin, Vincent Martin, Adil Delawalla, Wendy Blount, Sarah Eiring, Ryan Hollis, Yash Kshirsagar, Thad Starner. ISWC 2013.

Received Best Paper and 10-year Impact Award.

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