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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