Non Political— REAL Truth Prevails (@ECHOtheCALL) July 13, 2019
🐾 A picture is worth a thousand words An interface is worth a thousand pictures 🐾
~Ben Shneiderman
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I told you how my German shepherd barked to be let into the house.
He was out on the patio. I was inside the den.
I stood on the inside teasing him as he barked steadily.
It was the way he barked that day, rhythmically. Like talking, not like excited or confused.
Let. me. in. let. me. in. let. me. in. let. me. in.
I thought, "Hey, we can use this."
I held up my fingers and encouraged him to bark. Then closed my fingers and encouraged him to stop. Then held up my fingers and barked myself to encourage him to bark. Then closed my fingers and used my fun voice to tell him to shut up. Back and forth like this, having fun with him talking, still frustrated about not being let inside. Barking at me. Then stopping.
That back and forth made the steady barking okay. So long as I held up my hand with my fingers showing.
When my hand was shut then the barking must stop.
I let him inside.
Then put him outside and continued with the separation and barking and hand signals.
Then let him inside and continued with the hand signals.
This was the fastest thing that he learned. Everything else took two weeks to drill, but this bit came naturally. The next day we picked up where we left off, inside or out he would bark steadily when I held up my fingers.
We discovered a new fun game.
I went around telling my friends that my dog could count but it was me doing the counting all along.
He was merely barking when I held up my hand showing my fingers.
None of my friends ever caught on.
They bragged about my dog to other people. They had me show off my counting dog. And nobody I showed this to suspected it was me doing the counting.
They really dug my dog because he did so many fantastic things like this.
Until one day we were playing and he was barking to 4. I held up my hand past 4 and the dog barked a question bark. That dog question-bark is the funniest thing.
He went, BARK ... BARK ... BARK ... BARK ... ... ... ¿bark?
"No, no, no, no, no, no. "
We did it so much that the dog could actually count to 4. Now I gave the negation affirmatively. No, don't bark past 4 even though my hand is still up. I said "no, no, no, no, no, no, no" in my happy voice and petted him. Then did it again and he stopped on 4 with my hand still up, confident that 4 fingers really does mean 4 barks.
I tried it with 3 and with 2 and with 1 with success.
But I couldn't get it to work with 5.
He got lost in the high number of barks.
Poor thing. He tried.
4 was his limit.
He could actually count to 4. No matter how long I held up my hand. It was one of our best tricks.
Now.
This video has a song for sound.
We have no idea if the handler is giving vocal instructions. It looks like the dog is responding to the photographs but it very well might be doing a practiced routine based on vocal directions. A routine they've done over and over and over and over a hundred times. Then put this video together to make it appear like the dog is copying the photographs of itself.
Maybe it is. And maybe the handler is mischievously fooling their internet friends like I did. And then maybe they did this much with voice and photographs that the pictures actually do work like my dog could actually count to 4.
Whatever. It's a great trick. And the dog gets great interaction with its handler. The dogs like to show off as much as the people do. They're having a great time together.
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