Human Horse Interaction

Abstract

Consider connected and autonomous vehicles: these vehicles can sense their environment, communicate with each other, sense their use, perform some tasks fully autonomously. Though this is the first time in human history that we have made autonomous vehicles (AVs), this is far from the first time that we have interacted with autonomous vehicles. Horses were first domesticated five to ten thousand years ago. Subsequently, human-horse partnership transformed how people and goods were transported, food was produced, wars were fought and won. We studied human-horse interaction at the UF Horse Teaching Unit. Our research surfaced a range of observations, design guidelines and novel research questions for human-robot interaction in general.

Coverage

Publications

Rebellion and Disobedience in HRI: Insights from human-horse interaction.

“Rebellion and Disobedience in HRI: Insights from human-horse interaction”, Eakta Jain and J. Cortney Bradford. ACM HRI’24 Workshop

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Horse as Teacher: How human-horse interaction informs human-robot interaction.

“Horse as Teacher: How human-horse interaction informs human-robot interaction”, Eakta Jain and Christina Gardner-Mccune. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) 2023.

  • Paper (open access)
  • Bibtex: @inproceedings{jain:2023,
    author = {Eakta Jain and Christina Gardner-Mccune},
    title = {Horse as Teacher: How human-horse interaction informs human-robot interaction},
    year = {2023},
    publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems},
    series = {CHI ’23}
    }