Clara Mancini the Open University| C. Mancini@ open. ac. uk has so far been driven by academic disciplines other than computer science or by other industrial sectors. The design of these technologies remains fundamentally human centered, and the study of how they are adopted by or affect their users remains fundamentally outside the remit of usercomputer interaction research. The negative effects of this lack of animal perspective become obvious when, for example, the behavior and welfare of seals fitted with bio-logging tags and satellite transmitters are significantly affected and data gathered during costly conservation studies risks invalidation [9], or when cows who do not engage with milking systems are culled [5] and farmers suffer capital losses. But risk mitigation aside, what about the things we could gain from a shift in perspective? What would it allow us to learn about and achieve with interactive technology? How would it influence our reflection on usability, adaptation, appropriation, methodology, and ethics, to name but a few aspects? Studies in interspecies computer interaction have started making appearances at HCI venues [10-13], but the remarkably marginal position this research still occupies in the HCI compreviously observed in constraining farming environments [5]. Examples of a different kind of interaction are provided by tracking and telemetric sensor devices, which have been used in conservation studies since the early 1970s and which have now become commonplace. For example, radio collars allowed researchers to uncover the elusive behavior and territorial needs of snow leopards for the first time [6], and satellite collars enabled conservation efforts to start mapping the movements of elephants [7]. Tracking devices have also been introduced to the pet market, while various telemetric technologies are used in laboratory settings to monitor, for example, dogs’ physiological parameters during pre-clinical trials [8]. In short, animal-computer interactions have a long history and can be found in many areas in which human activity involves other species.