If an interface is easy enough to use, animals should be able to use it. We may not be able to understand what they're using it for; but, they could be amused or interested in the content and we could at least see what is most interesting to them.

To make an interface easy to use for dolphins, it would probably have to use audio. One idea is to have a recorder that is triggered by sounds or tones and which plays back that which has been said in its presence. To browse the entire audio stream, the recorder could play audio as a tone is played near it, coming from a specific point on the monitor and that place on the monitor would move as the stream was played out. If the tone was played at the tip of the stream, that would play back something that has recently been said.

Also chat programs could be used, sending a specific tone or a tone to a specific place would open a channel to a chat device worn by another dolphin. This way they could communicate even seperated by long distances and we could see what one dolphin tends to do when provided with purely audio information from another dolphin.
 
 

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