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Applied behavior analysis is ideal for the development of a land mine detection technology using animals
- Source :
- The Behavior Analyst. 34:55-73
- Publication Year :
- 2011
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2011.
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Abstract
- The detection and subsequent removal of land mines and unexploded ordnance (UXO) from many developing countries are slow, expensive, and dangerous tasks, but have the potential to improve the well-being of millions of people. Consequently, those involved with humanitarian mine and UXO clearance are actively searching for new and more efficient detection technologies. Remote explosive scent tracing (REST) using trained dogs has the potential to be one such technology. However, details regarding how best to train, test, and deploy dogs in this role have never been made publicly available. This article describes how the key characteristics of applied behavior analysis, as described by Baer, Wolf and Risley (1968, 1987), served as important objectives for the research and development of the behavioral technology component of REST while the author worked in humanitarian demining.
- Subjects :
- Olfactory perception
Special Section: Behavior Analysis and Animal Scent Detection
Social Psychology
Operations research
Computer science
medicine.medical_treatment
05 social sciences
Computer security
computer.software_genre
Humanitarian demining
Ideal (ethics)
Unexploded ordnance
Clinical Psychology
Identification (information)
0502 economics and business
medicine
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
050102 behavioral science & comparative psychology
Applied behavior analysis
Land mine
computer
050203 business & management
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 21968918 and 07386729
- Volume :
- 34
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- The Behavior Analyst
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....5d13794f52d0c47942a379440dcc1108
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf03392235