Vocal Interaction Between Bird Parents and Eggs

After the keynote on the morning of December 8, 2022, ACI2020 continued with „Paper Session 4: Sensors & Signals, Part I: Origin Stories“. David L. Roberts (North Carolina State University) presented on „Motion-Resilient ECG Signal Reconstruction from a Wearable IMU through Attention Mechanism and Contrastive Learning“. The next talk, „TamagoPhone: A framework for augmenting artificial incubators to enable vocal interaction between bird parents and eggs“, was given by Rebecca Kleinberger (Massachusetts Institute of Technology & Northeastern University). The starting point of her research was that some birds have pre-hatching vocal communication. The last presentation before the lunch break that was given online was „Simultaneous Contact-Free Physiological Sensing of Human Heart Rate and Canine Breathing Rate for Animal Assisted Interactions: Experimental and Analytical Approaches“ by Timothy Holder and Mushfiqur Rahman (North Carolina State University). More information on the conference via www.aciconf.org/aci2022.

Fig.: An ostrich cub next to some eggs