A User-Centred Design Approach Towards Developing an Intelligent Living Environment for Honeybees

Honeybees are vital to both agriculture and ecology, primarily through their major role as pollinators. However, they have been in major decline over recent years due to a variety of factors. In this paper, we discuss a user-centred (bee-centred) design approach to creating an intelligent living environment to promote the well-being of honeybees, in an effort to stop their decline.

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Gordon Hunter

Donald Howard

Olga Duran

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Publication date: July 2016

Publication date (Print): July 2016

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[0001]School of Computer Science … Mathematics

Kingston University, London

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/HCI2016.73

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Conference name: Proceedings of the 30th International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference

Conference acronym: HCI

Conference number: 30

Conference location: Bournemouth University, Poole, UK

Conference date: 11 - 15 July 2016

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: Fusion

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[1] Arduino 2016 https://www.arduino.cc/ 25 June 2016

[2] Arnia Ltd 2016 www.arnia.co.uk 25 June 2016

[3] M. Bencsik et al 2011 “Identification of the honey bee swarming process by analysing the time course of hive vibrations” Computers and Electronics in Agriculture 76 44 50

[4] M. Boucher & S. Schneider 2009 “Communication signals used in worker-drone interactions in the honeybee, Apis mellifera” Animal Behaviour 78 247 254

[5] T.R. Boys 1999 “Woods’ Apiductor” http://beesource.com/build-it-yourself/apidictor/ 29 June 2016

[6] S. FerrariM. SilvaM. Guarino & D. Berckmans 2008 “Monitoring of swarming sounds in bee hives for early detection of the swarming period” Computers and Electronics in Agriculture 64 72 77

[7] Flow Hive 2016 promotional video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbMV9qYIXqM

[8] K. Frisch 1955 “The Dancing Bees : An Account of the Life and Senses of the Honey Bee” (Translation from original 1927 German edition, “Aus dem Lebed der Bienen”) Harvest Books New York, USA

[9] K. Frisch 1993 “The Dance Language and Orientation of Bees” (Translation from original 1967 German edition, “Tanzsprache und Orientierung der Bienen”) Harvard University Press Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

[10] D. Howard 2012 “Audio techniques to determine the presence of the Queen bee in a hive” MEng Dissertation, Kingston University UK

[11] D. HowardO. DuranG. Hunter & K. Stebel 2013 “Signal Processing the Acoustics of Honeybees (Apis Mellifera) to Identify the ‘Queenless’ State in Hives” Proceedings of the Institute of Acoustics 35 1 290 297

[12] D. Howard,G. Hunter,O. Duran,D Venetsanos, 2016 “Progress Towards an Intelligent Beehive : Building an Intelligent Environment to promote the Well-being of Honeybees” Proceedings of the 12^th IEEE Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE’16) London, UK

[13] T. Kohonen 1995 Self-Organizing Maps” Springer Series in Information Sciences, Berlin & Heidelberg Germany Third Extended Edition 2001

[14] W.G. Meikle & N. Holst 2015 “Application of continuous monitoring of honeybee colonies” Apidologie 46 10 22

[15] A. Qandour,I Ahmad,D. Habibi,M Leppard, 2014 “Remote Beehive Monitoring Using Acoustic Signals” Acoustics Australia 42 3 204 209

[16] Raspberry Pi Foundation 2016 https://www.raspberrypi.org/ 25 June 2016

[17] T.D. Seeley 1985 “Honeybee Ecology : A study of adaptation in social life” Princeton University Press Princeton, New Jersey, USA

[18] T.D. Seeley 1995 “The Wisdom of the Hive” Harvard University Press Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

[19] T.D. Seeley & S.C. Buhrman 2001 “Nest-site selection in honey bees: how well do swarms implement the ‘best-of-N’ decision rule ?” Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 49 5 416 427

[20] T.D. Seeley 2010 “Honeybee Democracy” Princeton University Press Princeton, NJ, USA

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