Doggie Dialogue
From: The Scientist - 11/01/2013
By: Jef Akst

Georgia Tech researchers develop technology that could allow assistance dogs
to better communicate with their handlers.

In a project known as FIDO (for Facilitating Interactions for Dogs with
Occupations), Georgia Tech researchers are constructing dog vests studded
with an array of sensors that the service dogs can be trained to activate.
The researchers are using the dogs’ natural behaviors, such as tugging,
biting, and touching things with their noses, to create pull, bite, and
motion sensors that should be fairly easy for the dogs to activate. The
sensors are fitted onto off-the-shelf dog vests, the kind worn by assistance
dogs in public to signal their role as a working animal.

Read the entire article at:
http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/38013/title/Doggie-Dialogue/

Links:
FIDO – Facilitating Interactions for Dogs with Occupations: Wearable
  Dog-Activated Interfaces
http://delivery.acm.org/10.1145/2500000/2494334/p81-jackson.pdf

Vest allows dog to 'talk' to owner (video 2:29)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bg16F6yJtcs

Submitted by Drew Nelson