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Conference Presentations by Equine International
PATH International - November 2025
Kieson, E., Rudd, C. Sabolek Consiglio, H. (2025, Nov 7-9). Assessing Interaction Quality in EAS: A Practical Ethogram for Professionals. Oral presentation at the 2025 Professional Association of Therapeutic Horsemanship (PATH) International Conference and Meeting in Denver, CO, USA
Kieson, E., Sabolek Consiglio, H., Nolan, A., Ryan, L. (2025, Nov 7-9) Retraining Horse Leaders in Therapeutic Riding to be Equine Advocates: Preliminary Concepts. Oral presentation at the 2025 Professional Association of Therapeutic Horsemanship (PATH) International Conference and Meeting in Denver, CO, USA
BCTRA Annual Conference - October 2025
Kieson, E. (2025, October 17–19). Incorporating equine choice, consent, communication, and agency into equine-assisted services and therapeutic riding programs: Preliminary concepts in practice [Keynote address]. BC Therapeutic Riding Association Educational Conference, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
ISES - July 2025
Kieson, E., Rudd, C. (2025, July 24-26). Development of a Preliminary Ethogram for Tracking Interaction Quality and Equine Wellbeing in Therapeutic Horse-Human Interactions. [Oral Presentation]. International Society for Equitation Science Intl. Conference, Denver, CO, USA.
HETI - June 2025
Rudd, C., Schroeder, K., Anderson, N.C. (2024, June 18-22). Walk On! Equine Compliance Influenced by Variation in Volunteer Leading Behaviors and Attitudes in Adaptive Riding. [Poster Presentation]. HETI International Conference, Budapest, Hungary.
Relevant Publications by Researchers at EI
Kieson, E. (2025). Interspecies Relational Theory: A Framework for Compassionate Interspecies Interactions. Veterinary Sciences, 12(6), 586. https://doi.org/10.3390/vetsci12060586
Baxley, B. (2025). Exploring factors influencing horse behavior and welfare in Equine-Assisted Services.
Baxley, B. H., Stellato, A., & Anderson, N. C. (2025). The Tipping Point: Exploring the influence of rider presence and posture on gait parameters in horses working in mounted equine-assisted services. Journal of Equine Veterinary Science, 105699.
Bhave, A., Kieson, E., Hafner, A., & Gloor, P. A. (2025). Identifying Novel Emotions and Wellbeing of Horses from Videos Through Unsupervised Learning. Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 25(3), 859.
Rankins, E. M., Reega, S. J., Rudd, C., Peters, B. C. (2024). Horse behavior and training in adaptive/therapeutic riding: A survey of instructors’ perceptions and knowledge in the United States. Applied Applied Animal Behaviour Science, 106490. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.applanim.2024.106490
Rudd, C., Pasiuk, E.L., Anderson, N.C., Hall, N., Foster, R., & Schroeder, K. (2024). A Preliminary Assessment of Equine Affect in Equine-Assisted Services. Anthrozoös, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1080/08927936.2024.2333163
Pasiuk, E. L., Rudd, C., Webberson, E., Anderson, N. C., Hall, N., Stellato, A. C., & Schroeder, K. (2023). Investigating human experiences and perceptions of unmounted activities commonly practiced in equine-assisted services. Human-Animal Interactions,(2023). https://doi.org/10.1079/hai.2023.0045
Goma, A. A., Uddin, J., & Kieson, E. (2023). Lateralised Behavioural Responses in Livestock to Environmental Stressors: Implications for Using Infrared Thermography to Assess Welfare Conditions. Animals, 13(23), 3663. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani13233663
Kieson, E., Goma, A. A., & Radi, M. (2023). Tend and Befriend in Horses: Partner Preferences, Lateralization, and Contextualization of Allogrooming in Two Socially Stable Herds of Quarter Horse Mares. Animals, 13(2), 225. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani13020225
Rudd, C., Wheeler, B., Pasiuk, E., & Schroeder, K. (2022). An Initial Survey of Volunteer Perceptions of Horses in Equine-Assisted Services: Volunteer Experiences, Training, and Educational Needs. Journal of Equine Veterinary Science, 117, 104090. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jevs.2022.104090
Kieson, E, & Sams, J. (2022). Horse-Human Communication : The Roles of Language and Communication in the Context of Horse-Human Interactions. https://doi.org/10.23880/izab-16000414
Howell, T. J., Nieforth, L., Thomas-pino, C., Samet, L., Agbonika, S., Cuevas-pavincich, F., … Warda, T. (2022). Defining Terms Used for Animals Working in Support Roles for People with Support Needs. Animals, 12, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani12151975
Kieson, E, & Sams, J. (2021). A Preliminary Investigation of Preferred Affiliative Interactions within and between Select Bonded Pairs of Horses : A First Look at Equine “ Love Languages .” International Journal of Zoology and Animal Biology, 4(4). https://doi.org/10.23880/izab-16000318
Corujo, L. A., Kieson, E., Schloesser, T., & Gloor, P. A. (2021). Emotion recognition in horses with convolutional neural networks. Future Internet, 13(10), 1–13. https://doi.org/10.3390/fi13100250
Kieson, Emily, Felix, C., Webb, S., & Abramson, C. I. (2020). The effects of a choice test between food rewards and human interaction in a herd of domestic horses of varying breeds and experiences. Applied Animal Behaviour Science, 231(April). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.applanim.2020.105075
Abramson, C. I., & Kieson, E. (2016). Conditioning methods for animals in agriculture: A review. Ciencia Animal Brasileira, 17(3). https://doi.org/10.1590/1089-6891v17i341981
Kieson, E., & Abramson, C. I. (2016). Equines as tools vs partners: a critical look at the uses and beliefs surrounding horses in equine therapies and argument for mechanical horses. Journal of Veterinary Behavior: Clinical Applications and Research, 15(2016), 94–95. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jveb.2016.08.067