A toolkit for animal touchscreen slider design

Animal-computer interaction is a quickly growing field in computer science however unlike HCI, there are no tools to ease interface development for its users, increasing overhead. Here, we present the beginning of a toolkit created specifically for animal interactions. We implement a gesture-based interface, a slider, as it is highly configurable in shape, colour, and feedback allowing it to be as simple or complex as desired. The resultant interface can be in any shape, provides 20 run-time configuration options, and collects usage data for qualitative analysis. The toolkit reduces the effort needed to build gestural animal interfaces for research or everyday use.

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