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Tiny the dog returns to obedience school and teaches the other dogs how to receive treats.

This article is part of my ongoing study of a figure I call the amborg, which represents the interface between species in a variety of ways. One way in which humans and other animals interact is through the attempt to communicate, and we try most sincerely, perhaps, in the human/dog relationship. This attempt is explored in a number of science fiction stories, where scientific extrapolation and subjunctive \"what if\" speculation allow us to overhear how that communication might occur. The result sometimes reflects genuine grappling with questions of authority, otherness, consciousness, and embodiment. Working with Gayatri Spivak's concept of the subaltern and Donna Haraway's companion species, but also the observations and conclusions of animal ethologists, I look at three sf works: Clifford Simak's City (1952), Sheri S. Tepper's The Companions (2003), and Kij Johnson's \"The Evolution of Trickster Stories Among the Dogs of North Park After the Change\" (2007). I explore ways in which sf allows writers to speculate on how species communicate, resulting in what Haraway might see as figurative interspecies epigenesis: not the speech of the subaltern, but speaking between \"alterns.\" To imagine this possibility is to break down one of the most common differentiations between the human (as unique possessor of language) and the separate, inferior category of animal, instead offering a more generous definition of language itself and a more observant description of the ways in which humans and other animal beings communicate with one another.

Winnie enrolls Waldorf in her obedience school for dogs.

This research adopts a Deweyan pragmatist approach and “research through design” methods to explore the use of human-dog interaction as a model for developing human-robot interaction. This research asks two questions: (1) In what way could the human-dog interaction model inform the design of social robots to meet the needs of older adults? (2) What role could aesthetic, functional and behavioural aspects of the human-dog interaction play in older adults’ interaction with social robots?.Driven by the pragmatist approach, this thesis uses the dog-human interaction model as a metaphor in this thesis. The research carried out four studies in two parts. The first part of the practice includes two explorative studies to identify aspects of human-dog interaction that could inform the design of social robots for older adults. Study 1 explores aspects of human-dog interaction that could inform the design of human-robot interaction for retired adults. Study 2 explores a group of healthy retired adults’ attitudes and preferences toward social/assistive robots in China. The findings suggest that, first, the pairing and training process provides a framework for building personalised social robots in terms of form, function, interaction, and stakeholders involved. Second, the cooperative interaction between a human and a guide dog provides insights for building social robots that take on leading roles in interactions.The robot-as-dog metaphor offers a new perspective to rethink the design process of social robots based on the role dog trainer, owner, and the dog plays in human-dog interaction. In the second part of the practice, two more studies are conducted to articulate the usefulness of the designer-as-trainer-metaphor, and the personalisation-astraining-metaphor, using participatory co-designing methods. Engaging both retired adult participants and roboticists as co-designers to investigate further how aesthetic aspects, functional features, and interactive behaviours characterising dog-human interaction could inform how older adults can interact with social robots. Study 3 involved co-designing a robot probe with roboticists and later deploying it in a participant’s home using the Wizard of Oz method. The personalisation-as-training metaphor helps facilitate a critical discussion for the interdisciplinary co-design process. It broadens the design space when addressing the technical limitation of the probe’s camera through reflection-in-action. Study 4 engages the retired adults as co-designers to envision what characteristics they would like robots to have, with attention to the robot’s form, the functions that the robot can perform and how the robot interacts with users. The study applies techniques such as sketching and storyboarding to understand how retired adults make sense of these core elements that are key to developing social/assistive robots for positive ageing.This thesis makes two main contributions to knowledge in human-robot interaction and interaction design research. Firstly, it provides an applied example using the robot-as-dog metaphor as a tool to probe human-robot interactions in a domestic context. Secondly, to show dog-human interaction model is applicable to different levels of abstraction for the co-designing process that involves the roboticists and the end-users. The outcome shows a reflective practice that engages metaphors to facilitate communication across disciplines in the co-design process.

In order to stay in the warm and cozy home he has longed for, Shoe Dog must learn to stop chewing shoes.

In short order, island police fire on the ship to keep passengers from coming ashore, St. Anne is placed under quarantine, and uneasiness on land turns to violence; rioters, fearing infection by \"the American disease,\" burn homes and bodies washed ashore from the cruise ship. (Sept.) Review by Staff The Truth Itself, Blackstone Publishing, James Rayburn, 26.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-5385-0748-3 At the start of this suspenseful tale from Rayburn (the pen name of South African author Roger Smith), Kate Swift, a disgraced CIA agent who's been living under an alias in a tiny Vermont town and hiding from a sinister element from her past, stops two armed young men early in their attempt to commit mass murder at her six-year-old daughter Suzie's elementary school. (Sept.) Review by Staff Kindred Spirits: A British Police Procedural (First World Publication), Severn House Publishers, Jo Bannister, 28.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8796-2 Bannister's fanciful fifth mystery featuring former security analyst Gabriel Ash and Constable Hazel Best (after 2017's Other Countries ) finds Ash, who was invalided out of the British intelligence service due to a nervous breakdown, running a newly opened bookshop in Norbold, England. Since he doesn't need the money, he's not concerned about attracting customers. Given that none of her relatives at the scene reported hearing anything, suspicion attaches first to her husband, who was sleeping next to her. Since Osman is unfamiliar with the local dialect, Maryam agrees to help with the questioning.

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: WILL LADISLAW AND OTHER ITALIANS WITH WHITE MICE Juliet McMaster University ofAlberta The well-heeledwidow, Mrs Dorothea Casaubon, has respectable relatives and friends who are eager to guard her from the upstart pretensions of the bohemian Will Ladislaw. Her sister Celia quotes the local phrase-maker: \"Mrs Cadwallader said you might as well marry an Italian with white mice!\" (Eliot 532). Dorothea ruefully ponders this label, and still remembers it months later, when other derogatory labels are being added. \" · Young Ladislaw the grandson of a thieving Jew pawnbroker · was a phrase which had entered emphatically into the dialogues ... at Lowick, Tipton and Freshitt, and was a worse kind of placard on poor Will ' s back than the 'Italian with white mice'\" (829). The annotators of the Riverside, Penguin, Norton, and Garendon editions of Middlemarch are all silent on this rather intriguing comparison for Will Ladislaw; and since several generations of students of Middlemarch have sought information in vain, I accept the task of explanation. I feel particularly qualified, both as a long-time admirer of the much maligned hero of Middlemarch, and as one who reared hundreds ofwhite mice in her youth, including one who travelled with me (usually in my shirt) from Kenya to England and back. Italians have been frequently associated with white mice in Victorian England, both in fiction and history. I ' 11 start with the fiction. Elizabeth Gaskell's tale of Manchester life, Mary Barton (1848), features an Italian child with a pet white mouse, who together reinforce that novel ' s thesis that the most generous protectors of the poor are the other poor. Mary Barton, the working-class heroine, has much else on her mind as she hurries through the streets near her home: her impetuous course was arrested by a light touch on her arm, and turning hastily, she saw a little Italian boy, with his humble showbox ,—a white mouse, or some such thing. (284) Victorian Review 16.2 (Winter 1990). Victorian Review The child is visually appealing, described as having \"glittering tear-drops\" hanging on his \"long curled eye-lashes.\" \"With his soft voice, and pleading looks, he uttered, in his pretty broken English, the word, ' Hungry! so hungry! ' \" Mary, preoccupied with her own troubles, at first passes him by impatiently, telling him, \"Oh, lad, hunger is nothing—nothing!\" But soon she relents, and shows charity to her starving fellow-creatures, bringing them the last scraps of food from her home. The little foreigner revives as instantly as the little dog in Ruskin ' s The King ofthe Golden River (1851); and we are left with an appealing tableau in which the boy \"poured forth his thanks, and shared her bounty with his little pet companion\" (284). It is an unabashedly sentimental episode which reinforces the novel ' s appeal for charity to the needy, of whatever race or species, and its celebration of the mutual supportiveness of the poor. Italians and white mice are also indissolubly linked in the freelyassociating mind of Flora Finching in Little Dornt. Hearing that Amy Dorrit is in Italy, she promptly produces her cultural associations: In Italy is she really? . . . with the grapes growing everywhere and lava necklaces and bracelets too that land of poetry with burning mountains picturesque beyond belief though if the organ-boys come away from the neighbourhood not to be scorched nobody can wonder being so young and bringing their white mice with them most humane . . . (590) Next after Vesuvius and its vineyards, apparently, Italy is famous for its young emigrants with their white mice. The most famous fictional Italian with white mice is undoubtedly the villainous Count Fosco of The Woman in White.1 Like other notable villains, Satan and Becky Sharp among them, Fosco is successful as a representative of evil because he is made plausibly attractive (in spite of his obesity). Marian Halcombe, the narrator who introduces him, is quite smitten by his charms (initially, at least). And his \"extraordinary fondness for pet animals\" is one of his attractive traits (242). Besides a cockatoo and two canaries, he keeps \"a whole family of white mice,\" for which he has constructed, with his own hands, a gaily-painted wire pagoda. Marian Halcombe...

A human family prepares their home for Sophie, their new dog companion, in a picture book guide for young prospective pet owners that introduces dog-related topics ranging from food and training to walks and dog shows.

A tightknit group of U.S. Air Force airmen chase promotions and women in Gore's (Short Rounds, 2018, etc.) historical novel.