Zooids: Building Blocks for Swarm User Interfaces

Mathieu Le Goc 1, 2 Lawrence Kim 3 Ali Parsaei 3 Jean-Daniel Fekete 2 Pierre Dragicevic 2 Sean Follmer 3
1 UP11 - Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11
2 AVIZ - Analysis and Visualization
Inria Saclay - Ile de France
3 Mechanical Engineering Department [Stanford]
Abstract : This paper introduces swarm user interfaces, a new class of human-computer interfaces comprised of many autonomous robots that handle both display and interaction. We describe the design of Zooids, an open-source open-hardware platform for developing tabletop swarm interfaces. The platform consists of a collection of custom-designed wheeled micro robots each 2.6 cm in diameter, a radio base-station, a high-speed DLP structured light projector for optical tracking, and a software framework for application development and control. We illustrate the potential of tabletop swarm user interfaces through a set of application scenarios developed with Zooids, and discuss general design considerations unique to swarm user interfaces.
Keywords : Swarm user interfaces Tangible user interfaces
Document type :
Conference papers
Complete list of metadatas

Cited literature [83 references]  Display  Hide  Download

Screen Shot 2016-11-29 at 16.01.33.png
Screen Shot 2016-11-29 at 16.01.33.png
Screen Shot 2016-11-29 at 16.01.33.jpg
Screen Shot 2016-11-29 at 16.01.33.jpg
https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01391281
Contributor : Mathieu Le Goc <>
Submitted on : Tuesday, November 29, 2016 - 4:02:07 PM
Last modification on : Wednesday, August 8, 2018 - 11:56:26 PM
Long-term archiving on: Monday, March 27, 2017 - 9:07:48 AM

Files

SwarmUIs_no_copyright.pdf
Files produced by the author(s)

Identifiers

Collections

INRIA | UNIV-PARIS-SACLAY

Citation

Mathieu Le Goc, Lawrence Kim, Ali Parsaei, Jean-Daniel Fekete, Pierre Dragicevic, et al.. Zooids: Building Blocks for Swarm User Interfaces. Proceedings of the 29th Annual Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST), Oct 2016, Tokyo, Japan. ⟨10.1145/2984511.2984547⟩. ⟨hal-01391281⟩

Export

BibTeX TEI DC DCterms EndNote

Share

Metrics

Record views

955

Files downloads

7450

 

 

Contact

archive-ouverte@inria.fr