Interaction Design for Digital Zoo

This paper proposes a consumer-oriented design of Interaction System applied in a digital zoo. In order to introduce a new experience of visiting zoos, a series of interaction interfaces and applications is designed based on the web surfing. The applications can be located anywhere has Internet connection, used by visitors both in and out of the zoo. In the meantime, zoo staffs can use the system implement to manage the zoo more efficiently on both computer and smart phone. The digital zoo, as the showcase of the interaction system, employed the technology that combine radio frequency identification (RFID), wireless camera sensor network and computer vision system for collecting and processing information in a reality zoo. The Interaction System for digital zoo enhances effective interaction behavior between human-animals, human-human, and management over animals. The design is based on the Digital Djurpark Porject with current deployment a multimedia sensor network for human animal machine interaction. We have evaluated the effect of interaction model in field experiments.