Use of experiential exhibitions for understanding of animal vision in school-age children and university students: expectations and concerns

Having a sense of how animals see the world provides a way of understanding them. Various educational exhibitions have been created to simulate animal vision. Recently, it has become easier for people to experience augmented vision thanks to the emergence of new technologies. However, few teachers have introduced these technologies into their courses, despite the potential utility of these technologies for education on human-animal relationships. This paper presents a study of expectations and concerns regarding the use of experiential exhibitions that simulate animal vision in comparison with explanatory exhibitions about the mechanisms of animal vision in courses for school-age children and university students. Through the development of a prototype for simulating the vision of dogs and semi-structured interviews with lecturers in a department of animal science, we identified ways that teachers would like to use experiential exhibitions in their courses and differences in the roles of these exhibitions between children and students.