UChicagoScienceAsArt
AeroRigUI & ThrowIO by Lilith Yu, Chenfeng (Jesse) Gao, David Wu, Ken Nakagaki
Submitted caption:
This photo was taken to represent two research papers (AeroRigUI and ThrowIO) presented from AxLab, at ACM CHI2023, the largest conference for Human-Computer Interaction research domain.
Both projects innovated how mobile swarm robots could be deployed to our everyday ceiling surfaces to enrich our future of everyday user experiences. For example, AeroRigUI, inspired by aerial rigging performances, introduced a novel approach for ceiling robots to manipulate physical objects in the air with rigging threads. ThrowIO, on the other hand, innovated a new approach to offer users with throw and catching experience, using the swarm robots to push and drop balls, embedded with magnets, thrown by users.
Together, AeroRigUI and ThrowIO illustrate the grand potential of our future living environments facilitated by distributed swarm robots on the ceiling surfaces. While traditional robots and computer interfaces are heavily constrained by gravity, our research fully exploit the 3D space with dynamic physical matter to augment our space with tangible and embodied spatial interaction.
More Project Info:
AeroRigUI - www.axlab.info/projects/aerorigui
ThrowIO - www.axlab.info/projects/throwio
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This image was submitted to the University of Chicago's 2024 Science as Art competition. From bacteria to bolts for telescopes, the entries display the gorgeous landscape of scientific research going on every day at the University of Chicago. More than 100 images were submitted to the contest, from undergraduates, graduate students, staff, postdoctoral researchers, and faculty members. Read more.
Image may only be reprinted with credit to the authors and the University of Chicago.
AeroRigUI & ThrowIO by Lilith Yu, Chenfeng (Jesse) Gao, David Wu, Ken Nakagaki
Submitted caption:
This photo was taken to represent two research papers (AeroRigUI and ThrowIO) presented from AxLab, at ACM CHI2023, the largest conference for Human-Computer Interaction research domain.
Both projects innovated how mobile swarm robots could be deployed to our everyday ceiling surfaces to enrich our future of everyday user experiences. For example, AeroRigUI, inspired by aerial rigging performances, introduced a novel approach for ceiling robots to manipulate physical objects in the air with rigging threads. ThrowIO, on the other hand, innovated a new approach to offer users with throw and catching experience, using the swarm robots to push and drop balls, embedded with magnets, thrown by users.
Together, AeroRigUI and ThrowIO illustrate the grand potential of our future living environments facilitated by distributed swarm robots on the ceiling surfaces. While traditional robots and computer interfaces are heavily constrained by gravity, our research fully exploit the 3D space with dynamic physical matter to augment our space with tangible and embodied spatial interaction.
More Project Info:
AeroRigUI - www.axlab.info/projects/aerorigui
ThrowIO - www.axlab.info/projects/throwio
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This image was submitted to the University of Chicago's 2024 Science as Art competition. From bacteria to bolts for telescopes, the entries display the gorgeous landscape of scientific research going on every day at the University of Chicago. More than 100 images were submitted to the contest, from undergraduates, graduate students, staff, postdoctoral researchers, and faculty members. Read more.
Image may only be reprinted with credit to the authors and the University of Chicago.