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My research assignments included:
I also have an interest in the fields of bioacoustics and valence in animal emotions. I have partipated to:
Developing interactive and monitoring technology to support wildlife welfare in captivity and conservation in the wild.
Developing security and safety systems for people with visual impairment partnered with guide dogs.
Designing privacy-aware systems informed by animals’ boundaries requirements to enable friendly human-animal co-habitation in urban and rural environments.
Developing canine-centred light switches and door controls to improve training and performance of Mobility Assistance Dogs. Find out more
Investigating bio-detection dogs’ spontaneous interactions with pressure sensors to provide reliable communication devices for handler-dog signalling protocols. Find out more
My doctoral project on evaluating the wearability of GPS collars for cats, designing a wearer-centred prototype that improved wearability, and developing a design framework for establishing wearer-centred requirements for animal wearables. Find out more.
Visiting researcher at Bayreuth University, working on the EVENT project to study the effects of extreme climatic events on vegetation. Find out more.
From November 2022 to the present, I have been a visiting researcher at the Social AI group at VU Amsterdam, where I have been working on applying dog training technique to develop protocols, guidelines and frameworks to the design of interaction between human teachers and robot learners.
From November 2021 to March 2022, I was a visiting researcher at the Machine Vision Group of Prof. Jan Van Gemert at TU Delft, where I worked on a ‘real world’ video dataset to annotate and recognise animal activities.
Since April 2019, I have been a Research Associate in Animal-Computer Interaction, working on designing interactive systems for non-human animals with Prof. Clara Mancini at The Open University.
From October 2014 to March 2019, I researched how to design for wearability in animal biotelemetry.
From 2009 to 2012, I worked as a Research Assistant in projects on maritime telemedicine, wildlife monitoring, and climate change research.
Between October 2015 and March 2019, I was a doctoral candidate in Computing at The Open University, where I conducted interdisciplinary research in Interaction Design, Animal Biotelemetry, and Animal Behaviour.
During my Master’s degree in Management of the Natural Environment at the University of Camerino, I specialised in monitoring methods of animal biodiversity.
I specialised in animal physiology during my Bachelor’s degree in Natural Sciences at the University of Camerino. This included six months of Erasmus studies at the University of Seville (Spain), where I studied neurophysiology.
Aristeidou M, Cross S, Rossade K-D, Wood C, Rees T, Paci P. (2023) Online exams in higher education: exploring distance learning students’ acceptance and satisfaction. Journal of Computer Assisted Learning 2023;1-18 JCAL Open Access
Paci P, Tiddi I, Preciado Vanegas D, Baraka K. (2023). ``Who’s a good robot?!’’ Designing Human-Robot Teaching Interactions inspired by Dog Training. In Proc. of the 2nd Int. Conf. in Hybrid Human-Artificial Intelligence (HHAI 2023), Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, 368. IOS Press, pp. 310-319.
Aristeidou M, Cross S, Rossade K-D, Wood C, Paci P. (2023) Examining university student satisfaction and barriers to taking online remote exams. In Proc. of the 9th Int Conf on Higher Education Advances (HEAd’23), UPV Press, Valencia, Spain, pp. 1-8.
Paci P, Mancini C, Nuseibeh B. (2022) The case for animal privacy in the design of technologically supported environments. Frontiers in Veterinary Science 8: 784794. Front. Vet. Sci. Open Access
French F, Hirsky-Douglas I, Väätäjä H, Chisik Y, Karl S, Kasuga H, Mangat M, Nannoni E, Paci P, Pons Tomas P, Vilker D, Zamansky A. (2021) Ethics and power dynamics in playful technology for animals: using speculative design to provoke reflection. In Academic Mindtrek 2021, 1-3 June 2021, Tampere, Finland, pp. 91-101 (ACM). ACM Library
Paci P, Mancini C, Price BA. (2020) Understanding the interaction between animals and wearables: the wearer experience of cats. In Proc. of the 2020 Int. Conf. on Designing Interactive Systems: more than human-centred design (DIS2020), Eindhoven, Netherlands, pp. 1701-1712 (ACM). Honourable mention award ACM Library Open Access
Paci P, Mancini C, Price BA. (2019) Designing for wearability: an animal-centred framework. In Proc. of the 6th Int. Conf. on Animal-Computer Interaction (ACI2019), art.8, pp. 1-12 (ACM). ACM Library or OU Repository
Paci P, Mancini C, Price BA. (2019) Wearer-centered design for animal biotelemetry: implementation and wearability test of a prototype. In Proc. of the 23rd Intern. Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC’19), London, UK, pp. 177-185 (ACM). ACM Library Open Access
Paci P, Mancini C, Price BA. (2017) The role of ethological observation for measuring animal reactions to biotelemetry devices. In Proc. of the 4th Intern. Conf. on Animal-Computer Interaction (ACI2017), Milton Keynes, UK, pp. 5:1–5:12 (ACM). ACM Library or OU Repository
Paci P, Mancini C, Price BA. (2016) Designing for wearability in animal biotelemetry. In Proc. of the 3rd Int. Conf. on Animal-Computer Interaction (ACI2016), Milton Keynes, art.13 (ACM). ACM Library or OU Repository
Paci P, Mancini C, Price BA. (2016) Towards a wearer-centred framework for animal biotelemetry. In Spink AJ (ed.) Measuring Behaviour 2016, Dublin, Ireland, pp. 465–469. OU Repository
Grappasonni I, Paci P, Mazzucchi F, De Longis S, Amenta F. (2012) Awareness of health risks at the workplace and of risks of contracting communicable diseases including those related to food hygiene, among seafarers. International Maritime Health 63, 1: 24-31. IMH
Grappasonni I, Paci P, Mazzucchi F, Amenta F. (2011) Survey on HIV risk perception and sexual behaviours among seafarers. International Maritime Health 62, 2: 131-137. IMH
Paci P. A wearer-centred framework to design for wearability in animal biotelemetry. PhD Thesis, The Open University. OU repository
Institutional e-mail: patrizia.paci@open.ac.uk
Personal e-mail: patrizia.paci1@gmail.com