Day 4250: Parrots, Digital Step-by-Step

 

 

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Parrots can play tablet games for enrichment.

A team of researchers are studying how tablets could be designed to be more bird-friendly.

Parrots are smart, with some species found to have the problem-solving skills of a young child. So if small kids can use technology in some capacity, why can’t parrots?

Researchers aiming for cognitive enrichment set out to answer just how tablets could be improved for optimal use by the intelligent birds, according to a recent March study.

By designing a balloon-popping tablet game and collecting data from 20 pet parrots, the researchers found that birds’ interest in the game indicated mental stimulation could be a potential benefit. 

A parrot pops virtual balloons by using its tongue and beak.

 

However, the critters’ anatomy was an obstacle to interacting with the screens. Each parrot popped virtual balloons by using its tongue and beak, with eyes often very close to the screen. As a result, the bird would have to turn its head or pull back to find the next target.

Researchers designed the tablet game to be used by a parrot in collaboration with the bird's caretaker.

The findings establish a framework that researchers can use to design bird-friendly tablets, according to the study, which has been peer-reviewed prior to an upcoming May presentation at the ACM (Association of Computing Machinery) CHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, lead author Rébecca Kleinberger said.

The birds interacted with the tablet for no more than 30 minutes a day.

“We see a lot of birds that, for whatever reason, out of boredom, or out of sexual frustration, they pick their feathers. … I think to prevent some of that boredom, I can see (playing games) being useful — they love noises, they love music, they love watching things,” said Sladky, who has feathered patients that have shown interest in watching YouTube videos of other birds.

Read the whole story here.

 

If you read this blog, you probably already know that I am indeed ...

 

Today I found this ... from 10 years ago!

... an old magazine image, saved to work on ...
I had started on it back then, but it wasn't working ...
so I left it for a very long time. Today, it was my shiny object. I started with the below orange.

then added an old collage scrap & ink ...

 

which blended into the below...

 Then I added the b&w image and more colors ... 

I played with layers and some lines, texture.

 

 

 I wasn't happy with it and so it went into a file until today. It does show how layering digitally works?

 

 

 

 

  

 

A 5+ minute video, Zzzeplin, here

 

 

 

  

Just because ...

 

 

  

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