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Zooids - Building Blocks for Swarm User Interfaces

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Channel: All About Circuits · 2016 · Science & Technology

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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 highspeed 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. The plans for building these robots is available on GitHub: https://github.com/ShapeLab/SwarmUI

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Stanford SHAPE Lab
http://shape.stanford.edu/
http://shape.stanford.edu/research/swarm/

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