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Ilyena Hirskyj-Douglas @ilyena.com · 26/02/2026

What if we designed tech for sleep needs? Our upcoming ACM TEI paper explores a smart pillow that controls audio via hugging & squeezing. Co-design with 16 participants showed that sleep onset is its own design context. ilyenahirskyjdouglas.wordpress.com/... @teiconsortium.bsky.social

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Ilyena Hirskyj-Douglas @ilyena.com · 31/12/2025

Big year, bigger one ahead. With my ERC Starting Grant FUTUREFAUNA starting next year, it feels like I’m stepping into the next phase of what I can do. Excited for the next five years — and to kick it off with a keynote at HRI in March.

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Ilyena Hirskyj-Douglas @ilyena.com · 19/12/2025

At the Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour conference, where Jiaqi presented her PhD work showing that multimodal technology (smell, sound, and visuals) engaged lemurs far better than visuals alone. Paper: doi.org/10.1145/3706... @glasgow.ac.uk

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Ilyena Hirskyj-Douglas @ilyena.com · 21/04/2025

How can interactive technology support animals and humans in zoos? We developed a device for red-ruffed lemurs to trigger smell, sound, and visuals. Using the device 4021 times over 63 days, lemurs use the system significantly more with multimodal than unimodal stimuli

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Ilyena Hirskyj-Douglas @ilyena.com · 03/03/2025

Over the weekend, I gave a TEDxManchester talk on creating computer devices that enable animals to control their environment and social lives using the Internet. The talk will be available on YouTube in a few months (link coming soon!). @uofglasgow.bsky.social

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Ilyena Hirskyj-Douglas @ilyena.com · 17/02/2025

My research group has been awarded a @ufaw.bsky.social Large Grant to study the behaviour of Red-Ruff Lemurs with technology at @blairdrummond.bsky.social Zoo. Berkay Arslan will join my Animal-Computer Interaction group at @uofglasgow.bsky.social for six months - welcome!

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Ilyena Hirskyj-Douglas @ilyena.com · 17/02/2025

What a beautiful campus the @uniofstandrews.bsky.social has! Thank you for inviting me to talk about my animal-computing research at the Psychology and Neuroscience department and to Prof Amanda Seed for the ice cream and conversation.

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Ilyena Hirskyj-Douglas @ilyena.com · 17/02/2025

I'll be giving a TEDx talk in March on my vision and work around the Animal Internet and how this can reshape our understanding of animal lives - exciting times!

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Ilyena Hirskyj-Douglas @ilyena.com · 05/02/2025

I lectured at @northeasternu.bsky.social Animal-Computer Interaction class; students asked how I chose projects/animals to guide their choices. Ideas spark from institutions, papers and experience, but navigating animal and human desires for tech (of who wants what & why) is complex.

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Ilyena Hirskyj-Douglas @ilyena.com · 09/12/2024

I will present my parrot and dog interactive tech research tomorrow at Prof. Ludwig Huber's lab at the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna. I'm looking forward to the comparative cognition perspective on my work and to thinking about wider implications. Thanks for the invite!

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Ilyena Hirskyj-Douglas @ilyena.com · 08/12/2024

I am was privileged to host the International ACI Conference this week at @uofglasgow.bsky.social. Thank you to Glasgow City Council for their sponsorship, and immense gratitude to all attendees who made this such a productive and engaging event.

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Ilyena Hirskyj-Douglas @ilyena.com · 02/12/2024

This year I’m hosting the ACM International Animal-Computer Interaction conference - kicking off today with a workshop on acoustic enrichment

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Ilyena Hirskyj-Douglas @ilyena.com · 01/12/2024

Hello Bluesky 👋 I make interactive computers for animals that allow them to control their environment and access the internet. I create technologies that allow for animals to have new ways of interaction, enabling choice and control over their life. From tech usage we can peek inside their world.

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Ilyena Hirskyj-Douglas @ilyena.com · 19/11/2024

I will be giving a talk tomorrow at @manmetuni.bsky.social on my zoo research with animals. I am looking forward to also hearing the other talks and meeting new zoo researchers! @uofglasgow.bsky.social @uofgcompsci.bsky.social

Poster for Zoo Research Day at Manchester Metropolitan University, taking place on Wednesday, 20th November, from 1:30 PM to 5 PM in room BS G.36. The programme includes four talks. The poster includes images of relevant animals and plants, such as a frog, a hippo, a carnivorous plant, and a parrot.

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