Interaction Lab at Georgia Tech in Atlanta, says that we're closer
than ever to finding a way for your pet to talk to you.
Jackson says, "We tested eight different dogs on nine different sensors and nine very different kinds of sensors from a tug sensor, to a bite sensor, to a touch sensor where they waive their nose over it. And the longest it ever took us to train any of the dogs was 27 minutes. The shortest was 27 seconds."
And why is Jackson doing this? She says, "My whole career has been devoted to serving people with disabilities. My grandmother had multiple sclerosis and used a wheelchair. She lost all her movement except her left hand, but she was still a gifted writer... and she was my inspiration for a lot of my work... . This turns out to be a natural evolution for my passion for dog training and the assistive technology world."
Jackson hopes to spread the word about the FIDO project [http://fido.gatech.edu/] so that it reaches a wide variety of people in need. [http://www.hlntv.com/video/2014/09/25/fido-project-dogs-technology]
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