[nagdu] FW: [Nfbf-l] Someday Your Guide Dog May Have Their Own Wearable Technology

[Sherrill O'Brien]

This is quite fascinating, and perhaps useful. My first reaction was that
our dogs have enough to do without having to give us information we can
usually figure out for ourselves. But, like everything new, it's probably
best not to judge its worth prematurely. Read on!

Sherrill


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Someday Your Guide Dog May Have Their Own Wearable Technology
Wearable computing seems to be the next frontier. The Pebble watch and
Google Glass are being raved about, but wearable technology doesn't just
have to be for humans. Researchers at Georgia Tech are working on a system
called FIDO, or Facilitating Interactions for Dogs with Occupations. The
idea is that the dog could activate a sensor that would then transmit either
a verbal command into a headset or a visual command onto a screen. For
example, a bomb sniffer dog could tell his handler what kind of bomb it is,
or a rescue dog could alert someone that he found an injured person. A guide
dog could tell us that there is an obstruction to our right or in front of
us. According to the article in technology review, "In an early study, the
researchers equipped a dog vest with an Arduino microprocessor and tested
four different sensors that dogs could activate by biting, tugging, or
putting their mouth nearby. The three service dogs participating in the test
quickly learned to activate the sensors to set off a tone."
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