AnimalCatcher: a digital camera to capture various reactions of animals
This addresses a niche problem for photographers or zoo visitors, but it is incremental as it applies an existing interaction technique (directional sound) to a specific domain.
The paper tackles the problem of people having difficulty taking pictures of animals by developing AnimalCatcher, a digital camera that uses directional speakers to shoot sounds and attract animals' attention, resulting in example pictures taken in a zoo.
People often have difficulty to take pictures of animals, since animals usually do not react with cameras nor understand verbal directions. To solve this problem, we developed a new interaction technique, AnimalCatcher, which can attract animals' attention easily. The AnimalCatcher shoots various sounds using directional speaker to capture various reactions of animals. This paper describes concepts, implementation, and example pictures taken in a zoo.