RoomShift, a room-scale dynamic haptic environment for virtual reality, consists of nine shape-changing Roomba robots with mechanical scissor lifts that drive beneath and lift, move and place听furniture. By augmenting virtual scenes with physical objects, users can sit on, lean against, place and otherwise interact with furniture with their whole body, just as in the real world. When the virtual scene changes or users navigate within it, the swarm of robots dynamically reconfigures the physical environment to match the virtual content. RoomShift has applications in virtual tours, and architectural design and interaction techniques.
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Publications
- Ryo听Suzuki, Hooman Hedayati, Clement Zheng, James Bohn, Daniel Szafir, Ellen Yi-Luen Do, Mark D Gross, and Daniel Leithinger. 2020. RoomShift: Room-scale Dynamic Haptics for VR with Furniture-moving Swarm Robots. In Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '20). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Paper 396, 11 pages. DOI:听
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Associated Researchers
Ellen Yi-Luen Do
Professor • Director, ATLAS Partnerships & Innovation • ACME Lab • DESIGN, TANGIBLE INTERACTION, HAPPY HEALTHY LIVING • COMPUTER SCIENCE
Mark D. Gross
Professor • ATLAS Director • DESIGN, ROBOTICS, TANGIBLE INTERACTION • COMPUTER SCIENCE
ATLAS Institute
Hooman Hedayati
PhD, Comp Sci '21
Computer Science
Daniel Leithinger
Visiting Assistant Professor • THING Lab • SHAPE CHANGING & HAPTIC INTERFACES • COMPUTER SCIENCE
Ryo Suzuki
Post-Doctoral Research Associate • PhD, Computer Science '20
ATLAS Institute
Dan Szafir
Assistant Professor of Computer Science, UNC Chapel Hill • Former ATLAS faculty member
Clement Zheng
Post-Doctoral Research Associate • PhD, Technology, Media & Society 鈥�20 • COMPUTATIONAL DESIGN, TANGIBLE INTERACTION
ATLAS Institute
