Wednesday, 21 February 2007

More animal Interfaces

Below is an image of the classic 'Skinner Box', an operant conditioning chamber used in experimental psychology to study animal behavior.




















The second image shows a dog partaking in a game of 'flyball'. The flyball machine was invented by Herbert Wagner. He realised that his dogs needed physical exercise, but didn't want it to cost him any effort. Even throwing a ball was too much trouble and so he invented a machine that would launch a ball for him. The machine is operated by a dog pushing on the small wooden board.

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