What if humans and dogs could better understand each other? Service dogs, rescue dogs, police dogs, even our pets: it opens up a much wider range of possibilities for working together.
A team at North Carolina State University has created a dog harness that employs a range of sensor technologies to interpret canine body language for humans, and human vocalisations for dogs.
“There are two types of communication technologies,” says Dr Alper Bozkurt, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at NC State and co-lead author of a paper on the work. “One that allows us to communicate with the dogs, and one that allows them to communicate with us.”
via cnet
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