🐾 CrowdBark
A Crowdsourced Study of Dog Communication Using AI
Submit a short video of your dog — and contribute to groundbreaking research
Why Your Video Matters
We are investigating how dogs use facial expressions, body postures, and vocalizations together to convey meaning to their owners and other animals. By analyzing these multimodal signals, we aim to uncover patterns that reveal how dogs communicate emotions, intentions, and needs.
Your video will contribute to an open research database shared with the scientific community, helping advance our collective understanding of animal communication.
To guide our research, we focus on several key aspects of dog communication:
- Multimodal communication — how gestures, expressions, and sounds interact
- Emotional and intentional expression — signals of curiosity, fear, joy, or frustration
- Potential referential communication — such as barking to indicate a specific object or situation
- How humans interpret dog behavior — exploring biases, accuracy, and shared understanding
Important: Your submitted videos will be used as data sources in scientific publications and shared in an open dataset for the research community. Please avoid including identifiable human faces, private conversations, or any personal information. Our focus is exclusively on the dogs and their communication.
How to Participate
1. Record a Video
- Max length: 1 minute
- Your dog must be clearly visible
- Audio should be clean and audible (for vocalization examples)
- Avoid including human faces or private conversations
2. Fill Out the Form
You’ll answer questions about:
- Your dog’s breed, age, sex, and personality
- The context of the video
- Your interpretation of what the dog is expressing
3. Stay in Touch
You may provide an email address if you’d like to be notified of study outcomes.
Meet the Team
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